Happy Anniversary Friday Shoot My Town

 

 Can you believe it has been 4 years since the first

Friday Shoot My Town blog party.

In this week's post share something about FMTSO.

Tell us when you started linking up with us, share memories, repost your favorite theme from one of our topics, or talk about the friends you have made. If you have a chance, invite one of our former participants to come back and link up this week or just to stop by and say hi. You can find them in the older posts linkys, comments or the side bar listing which has not been updated in a while. You don't need to know them to invite them. Just introduce yourself and extend the invitation.

Let's make this a special week.

I first started blogging on Nov. 13, 2008.

When I first began, my blog was entitled simply

"Queenmothermamaw

a blog about faith, family and fun.

Stories from Kentucky." 

 This was my first header.

My IT son took a photo of the Queen Mother and put my face in it.

I still do not know how to do that.

This was one of my first FSO photos.

Theme
Memories from my childhood.

Although I did not grow up in this town there are childhood memories here.

When I was a young girl this was the location of the swimming pool in Bardstown, the only swimming pool within driving distance of our little town of Springfield. We came over here to swim whenever someone could convince their parents to bring us.

It is now called Bardstown Village. Example of early pioneer living with a  waterwheel where the mills is. 

I had to change my old blog for security reasons and it became
"Day of the Lily"
July 20 2010   

I began to do FSO regularly on 
Dec. 11. 2009
That theme was weather.

 Because I have been having my blog printed by Blog2Print ever since I started blogging, even though my first blog is lost, I was able to find this shot of My Old Kentucky Home in one of those books.
I remember standing outside the home while it was sleeting to get the shot since the theme was

Weather

   Below is a shot  I got a while after I started to blog regularly with FSO and I began to learn how to get better shots.

Still learning.

I love the texture in this shot and how clearly the stones and some of the wind-blown blossoms show between the planks of the bench.

We have lost some regular FSO participants, some have gone to be with their maker, but hope some of the others will return to share with us one day.
Missing Barry so much while working on this post.
Found a e-mail I had gotten from Linda right after he passed.
I will never forget him and Lindsay. 

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Regrets and respect

The last member of my mother's family is being buried today in another state.

His funeral is there but his body will be brought back here to our state for burial in a national military cemetery.

He was the youngest member of their family.

Lived to the ripe old age of 89.

I had not know for years were he lived and had no contact with him and his only son once they left our state.

This uncle helped raise me during the nine years that we lived with our grandparents and I was always close to him and his wife.

HH and I visted them when they lived in two different states.

Planned our vacations around where they lived in order to stop by for a visit.

Never in all of  my married life did they ever visit me.

I had invited them to holiday celebrations at our home several times but they never came even though at the time they did not live far from me in our native state.

Something happened many years ago between he and my brother and I got drug into it.

I never got the chance to discuss this with him and clear the air.

I asked my brother to go to the burial with me today which is about 30 miles for each of us.

He refused to go and I am not going either.

It is raining and very cold.

An excuse?

Probably and I feel so sad that I could not make myself go, out of respect.

He was an honored naval sailor and will be buried with military honors.

George Leonard Edelen

Because I am the oldest grandchild, I am now the oldest living member of this family. 

I feel I should be there out of respect.

But I just cannot bring myself to go.

May he rest in peace.

       

First jonquils of the season with Kathe with an E

Rain, snow, rain and little more snow but the faithful little jonquil still makes it's way to grace little bits of our drab landscape.

My first bits of spring 2013

 Finished my little rabbit and eggs at art class yesterday.

I am not happy with his bowtie but I don't think he cares.

Spring is coming that is what counts.

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Princess Cindy's birthday-Grand Social

Happy Birthday to our Princess Cindy.

She is our 2nd grandaughter.

Although this photo is 10 years old she is more beautiful today than she was then.

 Celebrating in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands with her hubby.

Love you sweetheart.

Go here for Grand Social

Sunlit Sunday

Decor in the main parlor on Nazareth Campus

Cherry drop-leaf table

reeds, dried flowers and eucalyptus in an old Belizian clay pot. 
The sunlight coming into the room gave it that magical mystical air.

I just love this arrangement.

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FSO-theme bicycles

I went searching for bicycles at a couple of school campuses but maybe it is too cold, I did not find any.

Had to dig into my archives for photos.



Cutest little bike riders I ever did see.
A couple of precious grands

I rode a bike up to the time my knees got bad and I had surgery.
I loaned that bike to some one , and quess what, whomever it was must still have it.



Now here are some major big boys.

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Hope springs eternal. Share the Joy

Oh the JOY of tulips
They make my heart sing
New life, a new spring

Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

-Alexander Pope,   
An Essay on Man, Epistle I, 1733

Also linking up with
Vintage Thingy Thursday

Found this old tiny frame in one of my searches through my stash for old jewelry to use in my art and craft making.
It was my mother's.
There is no date or other mark on it but I know she had it a long time.
I made this yarn bombed rock and trimmed it with some gold and placed my granddaughter's wedding picture in it for a little birthday surprise for her.

Go visit Coloradolady for more fine things   


Go here and find JOY for your day

 

Vee's Note-Card Party-Smiling series

The Smiling Series

My memory is so bad I kept forgetting what day of the week it is sometimes.

Thanks for the reminder and for hosting Vee.

Keep smiling.....
Now let's go here for some great shots.

Yarn bombing rocks

I had been reading about yarn bombing for some time so decided to try it for a little gift.
I think it got it's start in Germany. It is called yarn graffiti .
I you look on google images you will find trees, buses, buildings and any thing imaginable wrapped in yarn.

It is crocheting over an object, mostly folks use rocks.

I just started crocheting and decreasing the rows and fitted it around my rock.

 

After covering the rock you pull the yard tight in order to stretch it over the rock and close it in the back.

Decided to make it into a little birthday token for one of our grands.

I placed a pretty gold button in the center and put two gold rings and a tiny copy of their wedding picture in this old locket and attached them with a gold cord.

One of my painting class friends owns a little newspaper with a set of lips for her logo.

She gave each of us a little Valentine with the lips logo on it.

I have attached mine to my purse to put my keys on when I leave my car.

Each week in her little newspaper she hides a pair of lips in one of the ads and if you can find them you can win a prize. 

You might find her paper on FB as 
Simply Put.
Full of stories, jokes recipes and neat ideas.

Go here for some fun things with Kathe with an E

  

Sunlit Sunday

What a week.
Snow, gone in a couple of hours.
Sunshine gone in a couple of hours.
More snow, and so on.


Can you believe these two photos were taken the same day.
 

 

Snow Gnome

 

Gnome in the Sun

Linking up with My little home and garden.

 

Sepia Saturday

It is our closest Sepia Saturday to St Valentine's Day, so what better prompt picture for Sepia Saturday 164 (post your posts on or around Saturday 16th February 2013) than a picture of ...... a tortoise. You might think it is strange the way the human mind works, but when I was young I was very fond of tortoises and turtles. So it turns out was Captain D Michelson of the Australian 2/2nd Battalion, for here we have a picture of him with the regimental mascot - Tim the turtle. The photograph dates back to March 1940 and forms part of the Australian War Memorial Collection on Flickr Commons. If you are looking for a theme for SS164 there are tortoises (or turtles), pipes, watches and all sorts of other things in this picture. You might also want to go with a wartime theme or a pet theme : or with whatever theme you want.   ALAN BURNETT.

Did not have any photos with turtles in them so went to the trusty web.

I found this on a site by Y.W. Goodman,

about how good Pit Bulls are for nanny dogs.
It was a page full of examples of children with pit bulls, no information was give about any of them.
 

You can imagine how excited I was when I found this.

 Forget the dog, this is about the cutest thing I have ever seen.

Wonder if the blocks of wood that the turtles are propped up on are to display them better or used for chocks. 
Since turtles are supposedly very slow this would be perfect way to give the little tyke a sense of adventure.
I can just imagine how he would yell
"Giddy up, go."

I just noticed the reins are only attached to the two front turtles.
I don't expect the organizer of this little photoshoot was expecting this wagon to move very far.

Linking up with Sepia Saturday.   

 

Friday Shoot my town

The oldest building in my town.
 

Old Talbott Tavern

The Old Talbott Tavern was built in 1779, a year before the settlement of Salem (later renamed Bardstown) began, making it the "oldest western stagecoach stop" still in operation. According to an old map of Bardstown, the lot was originally purchased by a man named Hynes; the tavern was called the Hynes Hotel. It was strategically located near the end of the stagecoach road that once led east to Philadelphia and Virginia. George Rogers Clark used it as a resource base during the end of the American Revolutionary War); Daniel Boone stayed here, and the exiled Louis-Philippe of France, stayed at the tavern on October 17, 1797, with a member of his entourage painting murals that were rediscovered in the 20th century and were on display until the 1998 fire. The murals have been restored and the tavern is back to it's old status. One of the most interesting items in the tavern is the original oak bar.

Visitors in the 19th century included future presidents Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, and Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's parents stayed at the tavern when a court ruling went against them, leading the family to move to Indiana when Lincoln was only seven years old. Other prominent figures who visited the tavern were Henry Clay, the inventor of steamboats John Fitch, environmentalist John James Audubon, songwriter Stephen Foster, and Jesse James, who is said to have been the cause of the bullet holes in the murals as he was drunk and shooting at imaginary butterflies.
George Talbott purchased the tavern in 1886. Within 2 years 6 of his children died in the tavern including one by falling down the stairs and one hanging herself after being unlucky in love.

Queen Marie of Romania is known to have lunched at the tavern in 1926. Likewise WWII General George Patton once visited the tavern.

The food is delicious.

Country Ham

Prime Rib

Kentucky Hot Brown 

Every week-end there is live music in the bar.

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The words for the day-Share the Joy Thursday

Words for the day

I Love You

I have been able to get outside one day this week and do some clean up on the deck and patio.

What JOY to be out making our little nest cozy again for our evenings in our swing.

It took a lot of scrubbing to get rid of the trail made by the birds we so enjoyed this winter.
Such JOY watching them gather at our feeders.

A time and a place for everything.

The swing has two hearts cutout on the back and I tied a Valentine ribbon on them.

Kind of bare but it will soon be time to plant some annuals.

What JOY we take in our little piece of heaven on earth. 

  

I am such a romantic.

Below is the first Valentine hubby got me after we were married in April 1960.

Every Valentine's day I get it out and display it in a place where we can see it and remember our many years together.

It is a book of poetry and I love it.
I love him.
2/14/61


Go to Meri's for more JOY posts.

Because this valentine is so old, I am linking up with Suzanne at 







Vintage Thingie Thursday