Mr. Big Red-Share the JOY

This photo will not win any awards but the

JOY 

of 

watching

the 

birds, especially the 

cardinals, is our goal here.

They are such a beautiful bird and when it snows they appear even more beautiful.

That is because they show up so bright against the white snow, or in this case, against the neckedness of the tree branches.

Thank goodness I see JOY in such simple things or 

I would have cabin fever.

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Go here to see some great bird paintings.

This is what I am working on now but it does not get posted until our class is finished.

This class finished before we did.

One word Wednesday

Vamoose

Peppermint Patty- My favorite geranium

For some time I have been trying to learn how to use my new Olympus camera.

This is photo of a geranium that grows in the

Visitor's Center 

where I volunteer on Friday.

This is absolutely the most beautiful geranium, one of my most favorite flowers, that blooms in the room.

I have taken shoots from it twice and finding it hard to get mine to look like that.

This was mine this past summer.

As soon as I brought it in it went down. 

   But I think this is a macro shot and that has been one of my goals also, to learn how to get a macro shot with my new camera.

I have a new shoot with roots coming on ready to try for my Peppermint Patty again.

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SUNLIT SUNDAY

One of my most favorite Christmas 
traditions.
Paperwhites,

gone now

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Meeting the author- Share the JOY & Sepia Saturday

and Sepia SATURDAY

There are none of my uncles or aunts in our archive theme image this week. But there is a lot going on in this hundred year old photograph of the Dughi family store in Raleigh, North Carolina. The photograph is part of the collection of the State Archives of North Carolina which they have made available on Flickr Commons and they inform us that the two gents on the left are Antonio Leo Dughi and John J A Dughi. As I have already suggested, you might want to go with old store fronts, oysters, fruit and veg, barrels, or odd machines on curved legs. Or you may find some other potential theme in there; or abandon themes altogether and go with any old image. The choice is yours and, if the front of Dughi's store is anything to go by, there is plenty of choice available inside.   Alan Burnett from SS Jan 26 2013.

 I took my theme from the neat black man in the photo.

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I am a lover of books.

Love the feel and smell of a book.

Yes, I read from a Kindle Fire now, but I still love books and academia.

Recently a big controversy has risen in my town.

Whether or not to demolish one of the most beautiful, at one time, homes and historical mansions in our town.
Anatok
in it's hey day

 Anatok today.

 This beautiful home belonged to the next door hospital (which is the library now) and the sisters who staffed the hospital lived there. It was used by the hospital for different things over the years.
A few years ago when the hospital was sold to the library board the home
 was sold to the Archdiocese of Louisville and Bethlehem Academy and stands directly behind the academy.

If it was anywhere else in town, there would be no question, but the school needs the land not a house.
  
It has stood empty for several years now.
The academy wants to tear it down for use by the academy and the historical preservationists of the city want to restore it.
It will take millions of dollars to move and/or restore it.

Daniel Arthur Rudd (1854=1933) circa 1889 at age 35.
Courtesy of the University of Notre Dame


Just recently a book was written by Dr. Gary B Agee about Daniel Arthur Rudd, a slave who was born in this house and became one of the first black Catholics to own a newspaper.

He was a very respected lecturer and
The Catholic Tribune was one of the most influential Catholic newspapers of it's time.

No one in town had connected this home to Daniel Rudd until this book was written and published. 
 
The Daniel Rudd born here was the son of Robert Rudd in service to my family ancestors, which is Rudd, and I wanted to meet the author.

He was in town Monday for Martin Luther King, Jr. celebrations, and the 
Save Anatok
campaign.

   
   

Monday afternoon I spent several hours with Dr. Agee at the Bardstown BookSellers talking about the genealogy of the Rudd family.
I am not proud of the fact but slavery was a sign of the times and according to records the Rudd family was very good to those in their service.

Spending time with such an educated man and talking books for several hours brought much
JOY
to me.
The book had more about my 6th great uncle, a bachelor lawyer in Bardstown Richard Rudd, that Daniel's father was in service to, than I had in my genealogy collection.

A good day to sit in front of a crackling fire, drink tea and discuss literature, architecture, genealogy and the question of slavery. 

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OOps Share the Joy was cancelled for today.
Guess I will share JOY with anyone who drops by today.

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Friday Shoot My Town- Money

Money in the US is based on the Gold Standard
and the decimal system.

There must be the same amount of Gold at Fort Knox to back up the money in circulation.
(I think) 

The smallest coin is a penny=1cent  nichel=5cents
dime=10 cents
a quarter=25 cents
1/2 dollar = to 50 cents
one dollar=100cents
five dollar bill=500 cents
ten dollar bill=1000cents   

This is all the cash we had in the house for me to photograph.

I happened to have some coins from Bermuda they all have QE II's likeness on them.

There are 3 1.00 coins
the coin in the top center is a 25 cent coin.
Bermuda currency is equal to US.

I had one coin from the Domican Republic which I probably got in Belize.
It is at the far left of the photo.
I was not able to find who's likeness is on that coin. 

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You're gonna love it-One of my Christmas gifts.

Our daughter is 

Director of Sponsored Projects

at

Bellarmine University

in 

Louisville, Ky.

Recently they had some very interesting and artistic visitors to the university.

The Buddhist monks from Drepung Gomang

Institute in Louisville.

They did a beautiful mendela  on the campus and then symbolically emptied the sand into the waters near the university.

I have seen these monks in my town and absolutely love the programs they put on at our cathedral.

Of course they have cultural and religious items for sale.

She gifted me with this for me at Christmas 
It reads

THE PARADOX OF OUR AGE

We have bigger houses but smaller families.
more conveniences, but less time:
We have more degrees, but less sense;
more knowledge , but less judgement;
more experts, but more problems;
more medicines, but less healthiness;
We've been all the way to the moon and back,
but have trouble crossing the street to meet
the new neighbour.
We built more computers to hold more
information to produce more copies than ever,
but have less communication;
We have become long on quantity;
but short on quality.
These are times of fast foods
but slow digestion;
Tall man but short character;
Steep profits but shallow relationships.
It is time when there is much in the window,
but nothing in the room.

...His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

It hangs in my private bathroom so I can see it often and reflect how full of  wisdom this man is and how I can turn this paradox around in my life.


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Sepia Saturday----In the background

Sepia Saturday

Jan 19 2013

This photo of Alan's was actually the background of a photo taken of his aunt.
But he choose to crop to the action in the background.

I took 'In the background for my theme.'

This photo was taken around 1925.

The sister is a nurse from St. Joseph's Hospital in Lexington Kentucky visiting the home of a patient recently released from the hospital.
Follow-up was and still is an important part of hospital care, whether it be a phone call or a home visit.
 
  The potato bag at the window shows the ingenuity of folks to use what they had to get along in the world.

I see a hat, probably on a nail.
Maybe a bucket and dipper for water.
A roasting pan for cooking and a lamp on the table.

I spent 25 years of my nursing practice as a home health nurse with the sisters and these scenes are still common today. 

St. Joseph Hospital was founded in 1877 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth
(of whom you hear me speak a lot.)
and still stands today as one of the premier hospitals of this state.  

This photo taken from 
"Impelled by the Love of Christ."
History of SCN  1924-1936
by
Patricia Kelly, scn and
Rachel Willett, scn


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Frozen in time

Theme this week took a lot of thought.
Literally I could find nothing frozen in time around here as anything that freezes eventually thaws out.

I took this photo of my only sister, her husband and five children.
Five years later she was gone.

She died at age 32.

I will never see her again or see her with white hair like I have.

I will see her as beautiful and as young as she was when she died, as long as I live.

This image is truly a moment  "Frozen in Time"
for me.   

This photo was taken by her at the same time.
We were married in a double wedding.
She had 5 children and I had 3 in 1967.






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Tis the time for mistletoe

Just driving around doing my little errands and looked up and immediately fascinated with the nakedness of the tress with the splotches of

Mistletoe

 It reminds me of little dabs of lace.
My uncles used to tell me they gathered it by shooting it down with their BB guns.

What JOY this image and memory of them bring to me.


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