Mosaic Monday-A family affair

Granddaughter's wedding in

May 2010

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There are grands and daughters and one son in each shot of this mosaic.

Starting on left and going across and down.

1) Granddaughter and her parents.

Her mother is our daughter.

2) Grand and her mother

3) Father of the bride escorting our granddaughter.

4) The wedding party. Three grands and one daughter in this photo.

5) Groom and his men.

6) Two beautiful granddaughters.

7) The wedding couple dancing.

8) Son and his daughter.

9) The bride and two of our daughters behind the bride in the line dance.

They want to be good aunts and  steer her the right way. LOL

10) All grandchildren, we are at the table behind them.

11) Granddaughter and the bride's brother.

12) The bride and her handmaidens.

13 )The center, young grandson, granddaughter the bride.

Our daughter second on left of bride.

Gd. first on the left of the bride.

Gd. the last female on the right.

These are our photos and not professionals, as you can see, but the pros have not arrived yet.

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I think I have posted some of these before but I just love to look at them so you will get to also.

50 years after our wedding year, our first grandchild was married
That is me on the right of our mother.

Today is first day of my birthday month.

Each post will have a memory and my thanksgiving note.

I am so grateful for such a loving family.

So grateful for a loving husband.

QMM meets granddog the first time. and gratitude for today.

QMM and grandoggie

Pugsly

My son and his family love this doggie to death. 

This was the first time we had met.

I don't know who is more startled me or Pugsly.

This picture was doctored for Happy Halloween.

Maybe he thought I was a Witch.

Today I am grateful for the gift of music. Music that soothes the soul, brings joy to my heart, music of the Mass.

Sepia Saturday Week# 47 Churchill Downs

Sepia Saturday Number # 47
Churchill Downs

In 1955 Sports Illustrated was first published and, wanting their magazine to stand out from the rest of the sports oriented magazines, hired Nobel prize winner William Faulkner to come to Louisville to watch and write about the Derby. What better way was there to set Sports Illustrated apart from the rest of the sports rags?

Faulkner always painted scenes with a broad brush and opened his piece by writing about Daniel Boone’s exploration and opening of Kentucky to people wanting to settle here. He ended his narrative without bothering to mention the name of the horse who won the Derby that year.

It was Swaps ridden by Willie Shewmaker.

“Only a little over two minutes: one simultaneous metallic clash as the gates spring. Though you do not really know what it was you hear: whether it was that metallic crash, or the simultaneous thunder of the hooves in that first leap or the massed voices, the gasp, the exhalation--whatever it was, the clump of horses indistinguishable yet, like a brown wave dotted with the bright silks of the riders like chips flowing toward us along the rail until, approaching, we can begin to distinguish individuals, streaming past us now as individual horses--horses which (including the rider) once stood about eight feet tall and 10 feet long, now look like arrows twice that length and less than half that thickness, shooting past and bunching again as perspective diminishes, then becoming individual horses once more about the turn into the backstretch, streaming on, to bunch for the last time into the homestretch itself, then again individuals, individual horses, the individual horse, the Horse: 2:01 4/5 minutes."



Lots of things have changed at Churchill Downs but the 
Twin Spires will stand til the LAST horse is run.


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Day 6 grateful for the wonderful woman Madonna who teaches me basket making.
I am so blessed to have her for my friend now.
Grateful for all my artistic friends who help make my life so full of joy.
Thank dear God for friends.

 

Magpie Tales # 38

Magpie Tales #38

I stumped my toe as I walked along

Tears so intense, no wonder I fell

Was looking for my lost raven haired daughter

She died away in another land

Why did she go so far away

Did she not love me any more

I raised my head and wiped the tears and blood from 

My face and saw why I had fallen

I found my Julia when I stumped my toe

She got my attention with a cracked stone

Oh why did I  not fall on my face and open my eyes

When she was young

Peggy Jones 2010

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Can you take a Cathoic joke

 

 

 

An old nun who was living in a convent next to a construction site noticed the coarse language of the workers and decided to spend some time with them to correct their ways. She decided she would take her lunch; sit with the workers; and talk with them. She put her sandwich in a brown bag and walked over to the spot where the men were eating. Sporting a big smile, she walked up to the group and asked: "And do you men know Jesus Christ?" 

They shook their heads and looked at each other very confused. One of the workers looked up into the steelworks and yelled out, "Anybody up there know Jesus Christ?" 

One of the steelworkers yelled down, "Why?" 

The worker yelled back, "Cause his wife's here with his lunch."
 

FSO ---Theme Spooky

The theme for Friday Shoot Out er Spook Out.

Spooky

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Wicked Witch on her broom

Squeaking door

Boogie man

Haunted house.

Graveyard at your front door?

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What in the heck is going on
Witches in the trees
Squeaking doors
Boogie men
Haunted houses 
Yippie
It's
Halloweenee
P jones

Day 5 Of gratitude month.

I am grateful for all the fun things I have learned about photography from Friday Shoot Your Town.

Everyone on the team has been so gracious and helpful in coaching and example.

Woo Hoo

Who is the spookiest of them all.

VTT- Grandmother's meat platter

I have had many of my grandparent's things which had passed down to my mother and now share them with my brother and his children and my children and grands.

We always had huge family dinners at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

One of the highlights of those holiday meals, was the meat platter.

Whether it was turkey, country ham, or pot roast this was the meat platter used.

Richard Alcock Platter
Royal Ironstone.

It looks white, but it is ironstone and is cream colored.

There are a few wear marks on it. My mother told me it was a wedding gift for my grandparents wedding in 1912.

There is no visible mark on the bottom but I can see where the mark has been worn away.

This is what I found on research.

"Central Pottery
This old established pottery was formerly worked successively by Hopkin & Vernon, Hulme & Booth, Thomas Hulme, and Burgess & Leigh, who were succeeded in 1870 by Richard Alcock, by whom the works were considerably enlarged, rebuilt and remodelled.
At Mr. Alcock's death, in 1881, the works passed into the hands of Wilkinson & Hulme and then, in 1885 to Arthur J. Wilkinson.
Earthenware for the home markets was formerly made, but the operations were afterwards confined to white graniteware for the United States. In addition to this. Mr. Wilkinson introduced with considerable success gold lustres on the graniteware. The mark was the royal arms surmounted by the words ROYAL PATENT IRONSTONE and beneath, in three lines, ARTHUR J. WILKINSON. LATE R. ALCOCK, BURSLEM, ENGLAND.
In about 1896, Messrs. A. J. Wilkinson took the Royal Staffordshire Pottery, Burslem ...

I have had this meat platter for at least 40 years. My children see it every holiday meal we have.

It is very heavy and will easily hold a large turkey or whatever we decide to serve.

I am hooking up with Coloradolady for Vintage Thingie Thursday.

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Day 4 of Thanksgiving expressions.

I am thankful for our yardman. He is honest, dependable and works very fast.

His respect is the first thing you notice when you speak to him. 

Our landscape is so neat and clean and expresses our appreciation and gratefulness for our home.

 

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Adventure Express and day #4 of Thanksgiving.

Adventure Express

Action, finally, at our house yesterday.

We were at drought status.

These still photos were taken during a wind storm with tornado warnings and the first rain in months.

I took a video of the action but do not know how to get it to my blog, so we have still photos of this storm.
Doesn't look too drastic in still photos.

But the rain, after months of none, was an adventure.

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Tamara at Branch of Wisdom is offering us the opportunity to daily give thanks for the gifts given us by God.  So from today October 24, 2010 to November 24, 2010 we are asked to share in this  journey of Thanksgiving.   Please stop by her blog and read more about the specifics.

Today I am so thankful for the 1 inch of rain we received.
We had been waiting for the rain to pass so the yardman could come and manicure the landscape.
I am thankful for our faithful, trustworthy yardman.
He will be here today.

Creative Tuesday- Draw Curtains- A birthday- An anniversary and day 3 of Thanksgiving month

Creative Tuesday

Theme

DRAW

Curtains

Sketch pad and pencil.

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Happy Birthday to a wonderful young man.
15 years old today.

Grandson Ben with his proud dad John.
Two of the great loves of our life. 

 Happy Anniversary to a wonderful couple, wonderful daughter and son-in-law and exceptional parents.

Gregg and Rachel

19 years today.

 
Day 3 of Thanksgiving Month.
I am so thankful for the wonderful family God has blessed us with.
Sponsored by Tamara at
http://branchofwisdom.blogspot.com 

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You might want to join in.

Mosaic Monday Spooky shots

Mosaic Monday

 Spooky \

Witch on her broom

Boogie man

Haunted house.

Click on to see before and after enhancement with Picnik.
I am still learning.

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What I am thankful for Day 1 of Thanksgiving month.
My faith in Jesus Christ and the support of my faith community.

Learning from all world philosophy

Because I am such a devotee of Thomas Merton I am always impressed with Indian philosophy.

On Meditation for this week.

The practice that destroys ignorance is constant meditation.

Because of ignorance the ever-present Awareness is not recognized.

The seeker who has realized the Self sees the entire universe as the Self.”

Shankara (788-821)


Shankara (Sankara) is probably the best known and most influential philosopher and theologian of India. Born in Kerala in southern India he became an ascetic very early in life. Shankara reformed Hinduism with a monistic interpretation of the Vedanta, which ascribed all reality to a single unitary source, which he identified as "Brahma". He declared all plurality and differentiation as nothing but an illusion.


Vedanta is the philosophy that developed out of Vedic oral traditions and scriptures. These writings are even older than the Bible. The Yogi Ramana Maharshi once said that the whole Vedanta is contained in the two Biblical statements: "I am that I AM" and "Be still and know that I am God."

Sepia Saturday-Week 46.

Sepia Saturday

Week #46

When I first started posting on Sepia Saturday, I thought every post had to be old. Yes I knew old could be sepia, black and white or even color.

But a few months ago I learned how to take photos in black and white, sepia and color with my handy, dandy digital camera.

So I decided to look for some things that look old and do a study with my camera setting on sepia.

An old wedding dress for sale at Goodwill.

An old abandoned house at the far end of my neighborhood.

I think that you can tell these are not old photos, I took them on Friday.

But because they are obviously old items, the sepia does not look to far off course.

Now let's look at this photo.

 She's a cutie for sure.

I took this photo 10 years ago with black and white 34 mm film in my old Canon.

I took it to the regular place I had my photos developed and printed back before digital cameras, of course.

Now, I did not tell the person at the counter that this was black and white film.

Someone told me that if I had told them it was black and white it would have been developed differently than those with color film.

I did not try to get them redone, I kind of like it like it is.

As I said she is a special little girl no matter what color the picture comes out.

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