“You can drop the moonlight and
magnolia, Scarlett!”
~ Rhett Butler,
~ “Gone with the Wind”
~ Academy-Award winning 1939 American
epic historical romance film starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, adapted
from Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel of the same name.
Moonlight and magnolia refers to
the romanticization of the pre-Civil War South.
“You can drop the moonlight and
magnolia, Scarlett! So things have been going well at Tara, have they?” Rhett
asks Scarlett in my favorite movie of all time. When Scarlett wore a dress made
of green velvet drapes to Atlanta to try and get money from Rhett to pay taxes
on her home, Tara, she smiled sweetly and claimed to have everything she could
hope for, and “not a care in the world.” Rhett noticed her hands, calloused
from picking cotton, and knew she was lying.
I created this image by blending
“In The Fire of Spring,” – a shot I took of a beautiful blossom and breaking
bud in tandem in the fire of spring as sun set on my favorite magnolia tree at
Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania in April 2015 – with my capture
of the Supermoon over Cedar Creek Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania on December
3, 2017.
