I know I’ve been lax about posting eye candy on Fridays of late, but today I have a good reason — I’m a bit in shock.

Enterprise is a blip on the map of Alabama.

It’s the home of the Boll Weevil Monument.

And it’s where I spent a good portion of my childhood while my father was stationed at Fort Rucker. I went to Rucker Boulevard Elementary on Regency Dr., and we lived not a block down the street on Antler Dr.

I don’t always look fondly on the time we lived there. There was blantent bigotry. There were too many peanuts. And my elementary school still had corporal punishment… the one black kid in my class was spanked at least once a week.

Yesterday, the town where I learned my fear of tornados has been ripped open by one.

I don’t know if there’s anyone still living there that I may have known as a child. But the town and the people are in my thoughts.