William Henry Morgan would be jumping for joy if he knew the negatives from the photos he took back in 1917 would be spending time in the dark-room with his great granddaughter Kelly Elizabeth. I wonder if he knew when he setup his wooden tripod to take this picture that the negative and the love of photography he held so dear, would both find their way down into future generations. By the look on his face in this picture, I suspect he did.
One sister got a new camera…and one sister likes having her picture taken. See if you can guess which is which.
I’m excited to say that our 2011 OBX house is booked! Now I can spend the remaining 300+ days building my excitement to a fever pitch.
Here’s a few pictures from Katie’s confirmation…so why is she wearing the white robe?? (And yes it’s a cell phone camera.)
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We had a wonderful time in Spokane and here are 4 of the reasons why. Thank you to Frank, Jan, Sharon, Dave and all of the kitty crew (Bentley, Merlin, Sherman baster boy and Miss Nali-Nali) for a fantastic Easter week.
Yep we planted this back in Feb. and I’ll be eating it tomorrow. Now that’s a beet!
Carolyn and I just returned from the service learning trip we chaperoned to Savannah GA. This is an alternative Spring Break trip and we hosted 11 Misericordia University students as we all worked in the Georgia Infirmary and St. Mary’s Community Center. It was a really nice trip and the people we met and worked with were amazing.
Here are a few photos from the trip…details at the bottom.
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It’s always odd to hear sirens rushing by the house at 2AM. You wake and wonder if it’s the soundtrack of a nightmare or real. Sad to say, last night it was real. We awoke to see quite a sight across the far side of the lake from our house. Not sure of the cause yet, but it’s a safe bet that on a cold Feb night, someone probably had a heating failure of some sort. Thankfully only one person lived there and he made it out. The house is of course a total loss and as of first sighting, the flames were 60+ feet high. The hand held, through the window, maximum zoom photo does it no justice, but you get the idea.
When we stopped in to buy our Christmas tree back in mid-December, our local gardening and greenhouse guru made a funny face when I mentioned we were growing potatoes. He even repeated back to me “POTATOES?” Well in the immortal words of Gomer Pyle, “Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!” I bring you fresh greenhouse potatoes…
I snapped a few photos in the greenhouse today. With single-digit temps outside, it seemed like a good idea to capture a few photos that make me think of spring and warmer weather. Of course while the outside temps are around 2F today, it’s a balmy 65F in the greenhouse as you’ll see from the photos. The first photos shows off some of our Roma tomatoes (yes our tomatoes continue to produce despite the shorter days and limited daylight.) The second photo shows something we just discovered today. Our Epiphyllum Jeffrey Kida has finally shown some signs of life after 8-months. This is one of the Epi’s that Jeff’s nephew gave us when we visited San Diego last June. They’ve been alive, but doing very little for 8 months so we’re really excited to see growth.
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For our left-coast and out-of-town family, you may have been seeing our local flooding on the news. Basically we had a 55F day with 3-inches of rain and lots of snowmelt combine to make a mess. I thought I’d let everyone know we’re dry and show a few photos of the Susquehanna river. It’s not nearly as bad as we’ve seen in the past, but still impressive.
Photo 1 shows a view from the east side of the dike. I cover both sides of the river on my lunch-run. In the foreground I typically run next to the furthest trees out into the river and on the opposite side I run along the larger trees. As you can see both are well under water. Photo 2 shows the view from my office window with the local press vehicles doing the noon news and Photo 3 shows the view looking south at the new Millennium Circle project and the Market St Bridge. It’s hard to see in the photo but the portal gates are both closed.
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