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Thursday, July 21, 2011
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Deep Sea Fishing, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
We went Deep Sea Fishing today!! It was lots of fun. We caught about three dozen fish but only 8 or 9 of them were 12 inches long and big enough to keep. They cleaned them for us afterwards and we had them for supper tonight. Black Sea Bass are good eats!!Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Mama's New Garden
180/365 ~ A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is." ~ Keith L. Brooks
When my parents moved to Clyde five years ago, I felt sad and I'll be honest, betrayed. They didn't understand it and neither did my sister. They all thought I was just being selfish and they had the right to move. Well they did have the right but I wasn't being selfish. The home they sold was mine, too. Or at least it was for a long time and I was going to miss having it to go home to.
What I've learned in the last week since Mama and Daddy have moved back to Mills River is that the house they sold wasn't really "home" - they were! I am so happy to have them back over here where I can drop by any time I want - at least I'm pretty sure they don't mind :)
The flowers in the photo are from my mother's new garden at her new house. She picked them today and sent them to me via Amanda. I hope this garden will give her many hours of joy. I know the spring bouquet left on my window sill has
Sunday, June 26, 2011
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Sunday, April 17, 2011
100-106/365 Days of Photos
Wow, 100 days of photos. Didn't think I would be on my way home from Washington, DC on Day 100 of this photo journey; but then again I wasn't even sure I would make it to day 100. So here's to road trips, spontaneity, and photography. I enjoyed my first trip to Washington even if it was cold, dreary and crowded as heck! I got photos of most of the "important" things. Some day I will go back and actually get inside them maybe! I have to note that other than all the history I was immersed in, the thing that stood out to me the most was the diversity in this town. I couldn't believe how many nationalities were there - living, working and visiting. I have heard that America is a melting pot - Washington, DC, is proof!
100/365 ~ Leaving DC
Wow, 100 days of photos. Didn't think I would be on my way home from Washington, DC on Day 100 of this photo journey; but then again I wasn't even sure I would make it to day 100. So here's to road trips, spontaneity, and photography. I enjoyed my first trip to Washington even if it was cold, dreary and crowded as heck! I got photos of most of the "important" things. Some day I will go back and actually get inside them maybe! I have to note that other than all the history I was immersed in, the thing that stood out to me the most was the diversity in this town. I couldn't believe how many nationalities were there - living, working and visiting. I have heard that America is a melting pot - Washington, DC, is proof!
102/365 ~ Every cloud has a silver lining and sometimes they have navy blue linings
The clouds today were just amazing. They took on so many different forms and colors. This is the scene behind our office just off Dana Road. It's not the most scenic with the power lines and the bright white split level next to the beautiful red barn but I could hardly see that for the beauty of the sky. And check out the bird - it must have been huge to show up in the lens so far away. Thanks, Mike Dirks for letting me grab your camera and snap this shot before the clouds passed.
103/365 ~ "I touch the future. I teach." - Christa McAuliffe
And so does my daughter, Amanda. Today she was rewarded for her hard work in studying to be a teacher. She received two scholarships which will come in handy when she starts her final year in August. Her dad and I are both very proud of all of our kids and we are happy that one of them has finally decided to do what we both thought we wanted to do ... teach! Congrats, Amanda. Keep up the good work!
104/365 ~ "Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir" — Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)
I pass this little pond and cabin weekly on my trek from Coleman Freeman to Joseph Laughter. It's Timber Lake Cabin on Blythe Street - here's what their web site has to say about the cabin:
"Timberlake is your sweet vacation getaway, with private lake and secure, pet friendly site. Embraced by a hundred acre wood, yet just minutes (1.6 miles) to downtown Hendersonville, where you find unique shops, award-winning restaurants and numerous services. No matter what you choose to do on your vacation, Timberlake and the surrounding Blue Ridge mountains will satisfy."
105/365 ~ Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. - Doug Larson
I love the quote but realize that the green veggies can be pretty good especially when they are fresh off the local farms. Every spring we anxiously await the re-opening of the corner produce market. This year we've already been by twice for green peppers and zucchini. I'll be honest though, one of my favorite things at this PRODUCE market is the BANANA PUDDING ice cream - haha - hey, bananas are produce, too :)
Amy with one of her professors, Sandra Grunwell, after receiving the Outstanding Hospitality and Tourism Major Award today at WCU. So proud of her!!
93-99/265 Days of Photos
99/365 ~ Yogi Bear for President!
Today we went to the National Mall and found everyone preparing for the National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade. Yogi was poised to take over the Capitol ... maybe he'll run for President in 2012. He's got my vote!
103/365 ~ "I touch the future. I teach." - Christa McAuliffe
And so does my daughter, Amanda. Today she was rewarded for her hard work in studying to be a teacher. She received two scholarships which will come in handy when she starts her final year in August. Her dad and I are both very proud of all of our kids and we are happy that one of them has finally decided to do what we both thought we wanted to do ... teach! Congrats, Amanda. Keep up the good work!
I said sugar and they said sugar ... I meant kisses and they meant candy ... we have a win-win relationship :)
96/365 ~ Homemade Green Medicine anyone?
Just wondering who all at there recognizes this run down doorway as the entrance to what used be a haven for the sick and weary? It's Ole Doc Norton's place of course. Did you know that the green medicine he gave us all is now patented and sold commercially? It's called Donatal and it's now purple and tastes better from what I've been told.
95/365 ~ Wow, You Should Really Do Something About That Slice!
When the golf ball is slicing to the right, that means it's curving in a left-right motion across the sky. For the ball to do this, it must be spinning in a clockwise direction. A tornado, or twister, is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. One of these wicked rotations obviously hit the Etowah Valley Golf Course overnight, leaving in its wake a path of twisted and uprooted trees.
EVCC holds a dear place in my heart. It was one of the first jobs I took after the kids started to school and Hayes and Rick and Frank and John have remained some of my closest buddies. I love them and I love being on this course. It's where I got caught in a lightening storm and got absolutely drenched. It's also where I left a permanent scar on my bosses' forehead while he tried to teach me how to chip. It's just one of those places I always go back to when I need an old friend (kind of like my Charleston in the mountains.) Needless to say, I had a few tears today while snapping these photos.
I love having breakfast for dinner; especially when it means having some of these delicious rich egg yolk green and brown eggs! The eggs are the product of Araucana chickens raised in Tennessee. Toby at Mattress Outlet told me about them and we had the farmer bring us ten dozen to split. They are delicious. Below is a little bit more about these cool blue, green and brown egg laying chickens:
The Araucana, also known in the USA as a South American Rumpless,[1] is a breed of chicken originating in Chile. The Araucana is often confused with other fowl, especially the Ameraucana and Easter Egger chickens, but has several unusual characteristics which distinguish it. They lay blue eggs, have feather tufts near their ears, and a tail. To comply with the north American standard they must have no tail and are rumpless.
The ancestors of the modern Araucana chicken were purportedly first bred by the Araucanian Indians of Chile — hence the name "Araucana." The Araucana is a hybrid of two South American breeds: the Collonca (a naturally blue-egg laying, rumpless, clean-faced chicken) and the Quetro (a pinkish-brown egg layer that is tailed and has ear-tufts). The Collonca male and female are very similar, with very few secondary sexual characteristics like comb, wattles or tail coverts to distinguish them.
Amongst all the beauty I saw today with my three photo shoots was this huge elk. It was my first trip to Cataloochee and I was so excited to see how close these elk are. They just walk right up to you.
The experimental release of elk into Great Smoky Mountains National Park began in February, 2001 with the importation of 25 elk from the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area along the Tennessee-Kentucky border. In 2002, the park imported another 27 animals. All elk were radio collared and were monitored during the eight-year experimental phase of the project. In 2009-2010, the park began developing an environmental assessment of the program and a long-term management plan for elk. Project partners include the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Parks Canada, Great Smoky Mountains Natural History Association, Friends of the Smokies, the U.S.G.S. Biological Resources Division, and the University of Tennessee.
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