Daily writing promptWhich food, when you eat it, instantly transports you to childhood?View all responses

For me it is homemade ice cream. The first bite brings back sitting on a newspaper spread over the ice in the old hand-crank ice cream freezer while Mama turned the crank. Fresh watermelon from the garden sliced up right there on the back porch of the old house we grew up in. Hollering back and forth across the pasture to the cousins, “Ice cream! Y’all come on.” Those were the days of lying on a quilt under a tree with a book or studying the clouds. I didn’t have a care in the world back then. What a wonderful world we lived in. One filled with quilts under the trees, books, clouds, watermelon and homemade ice cream. But, the best of all was the whole family there together.