Monday's Memories....Mr. Johnson

   Back in 2001 I took a floral class at Midway College in Midway, Ky. The class is sponsored by the Kentucky Floral Association. The course is a week long, eight to ten hours a day studying floral design, care and handling and anything that pertains to being a designer. There is a test at the end of each day and then at the end of the course there is a final exam and you must score high to receive your Master Florist degree. It's not easy, you have to study and be able to design. 
  Mr. Jim Johnson is the instructor. He is a Indiana farm boy and owned his own shop for 14 years before moving to Texas in 1975 to become head of the Department of Horticultural Sciences at Texas A&M University. Mr. J just retired this past August. He is one of those folks who comes into your life and leaves an imprint. He loves floral design and steps out of the box with each design.
   Mr. Johnson was one of the designers this past weekend at our floral convention and once again I was able to work side by side with him and learn new designs. I found a picture of him and I taken ten years ago and we took another one the other day. Mr. Johnson said neither one of us has aged at all....