Day 9 of Mornings with Mary and Friday Shoot Out

Mornings with Mary sponsored by the talented Rebecca has been a joyous meme for me.

I feel I am very devoted to Mary and did not know I did have so many Mary's in my life story.

This meme has not been about Mary as a religious figure only but about the very womanhood and motherhood of a very famous woman named Mary.

Probably the most painted, sculptured, portrayed and sung about of any person in history.
Statues of Earth mother go back even before the story of Mary began.

Now I have seen many candles in the shape of Mary but this one is a little different.

 Several years ago while shopping one of my granddaughters helped me select this.

"Now QMM you know that candle is not for burning. How could anyone burn Mary?

Now you just put it in a candle stick and leave it alone."

Well I did and every time she comes to visit she always checks to make sure I have not lit that Mary candle.

I would say I have had it about 10 years.

My gd is 18 now and every time I look at my Mary candle I will remember the tender, loving child that helped me find her.

Haiku my heart


 Light of my heart
glowing, inspiring, uplifting
Madonna of the Light.

It will be hers when I don't need it any more.

Abby I love you so.

A closer look.

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 Friday Shoot Out.

 The theme this week is wheels.

Wheels of color

Vintage wheels

Wheels on the sewing machine go round and round.

Wheels for tracing patterns.

Second from right.

Wheels of skating

Wheels of music.

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Sepie Saturday # 82

Sepia Saturday # 82

Louisville and Nashville Railroad

Not good lighting but on the theme of RR stations.

 Oh what memories this photo brings back.

Louisville and Nashville Depot in Springfield, Kentucky, completed in 1887.

It served as a passenger, express, mail and telegraph office. Note the boxcar, baggage cart and stockpens. The depot was demolished in 1976. Photo c. 1918 (courtesy of Daniel C. Kelly) from

Washington County, Kentucky Bicentennial

History

1792-1992

In 1945 we lived about 6 houses from this depot.
I don't remember a train ever coming there but maybe it did in the winter as it was located parallel to the huge tobacco warehouse that housed the county's main crop.


There was not much going on because I definitely remember roller skating on the large open wood floor of the depot.
There was someone there in charge of things.
His name was Mr. Pardee.
Whenever he would come find us skating he would run us out.
He would come in the front door and we would run and jump out the windows and skate up the sidewalk home.

As I said it was torn down in  1978 and the rr tracks have even been removed now.

There is no remnant whatsoever that it was ever there.


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