The third of June

"It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty delta day..."

So begins the haunting Ode to Billy Joe by Bobbie Gentry, released about this time in 1967.

It still holds up 52 years later and, as I discovered yesterday, Bobbie Gentry is still with us - 76 years old living in seclusion in a suburb of Nashville, Tenn.

There are several bridges over the fabled Tallahatchie River in Mississippi and I've ridden a motorcycle over a few of them. None seemed high enough for a successful suicide.

The photo is from 2014.