Fly away home…

Lady Bird Johnson died yesterday and it made me wonder about her name. How does a grown woman get to be called Lady Bird? And was she Lady first or Bird? Or did they come together? She was the wife of a president a really long time ago. (Frankly, I thought she had already died.)

Or was she “ladybird,” like the little insect that flies and is red with black spots? Did she look like a ladybird when she was a baby? Or did she wear red and black clothes when she was a kid?

I wonder about these things.