Tombstone Tuesday :: Oakwood Cemetery

 

2012 Annular Eclipse

Queen's Crown

Raspberry Lemonade Green Tea

This is my own special blend of raspberry green tea . . . and raspberry lemonade . . . and regular iced tea . . . with the soft ice cubes made by my counter-top, no-plumbing-required ice-maker . . . I've been consuming lots of this tea blend on these 100+ degree days we've been having . . . and it's not even officially summer yet!

Where There Is Smoke, There Is Fire!

You can tell by the flags and the tree
that the wind was a real problem for the firefighters . . .

clicking on the photo
will take you to a Picasa album
containing assorted photos taken today . . .

Ford Blue

The Man and His Words

This book arrived in my mailbox today . . .

George Sessions Perry
The Man and His Words
by
Garna L. Christian

Looking forward to reading it . . .

Mount Homer Cemetery

This is a photo of a section of page 70 out of my Texas Atlas & Gazetteer . . . used the Focal B&W feature in Picasa to highlight the area where the Mount Homer Cemetery is hidden (literally!) . . . we spent the morning on Monday hunting down and traipsing into and photographing this little country cemetery . . .

Helping Unpack

Home again . . .
and Riley is helping unpack the SUV . . .
by carrying his toys back in the house . . .

Hiram Daugherty

This is the grave of Hiram Daugherty (1809-1870) . . . who was first the step-father . . . and then the brother-in-law . . . of Charles Goodnight (1836-1929) [findagrave] . . . on the 1850 census (page 24b), Charles and his Mother and siblings were enumerated in Milam County, Texas . . .

Water Moccasin

Unidentified Large Night Moth

Queens Crown

Cedar Berries

These arrived in my mailbox today . . .

Cedar Berries
by
Dorothy Lee Hansen

and I quote . . .

The rolling hills of Texas
keep pulling on my heart,
reminding me of childhood days
and loved ones on the farm. . . .

There's the sky like nowhere else,
big and blue and wide,
always full of cumulus clouds.
I'll love it 'till I die.

Special thanks go to
Judith Richards Shubert
for last November's introduction

The year is 1879

This is my hometown . . . Rockdale, Milam County, Texas . . . at five years of age . . . and as shown on pages 230 and 231 in The Texans . . . which is a part of The Old West series of books published by Time-Life Books . . . the caption on this photo says . . .

Cotton bales ready to be weighed on scales (extreme right) lie along the main street of the town of Rockdale, northeast of Austin. The year is 1879, and similar towns were springing up to the west as railroads spread across the plains, opening the hinterland to Texas farmers and ranchers.

My Mailbox

Watching Paint Peel

In the Gloaming

In the gloaming, oh my darling,
When the lights are dim and low,
And the quiet shadows falling,
Softly come, and softly go.

When the winds are sobbing faintly,
With a gentle lull of woe,
Will you think of me and love me,
As you did once long ago?

In the gloaming, oh my darling,
Think not bitterly of me,
Though I passed away in silence,
Left you lonely, set you free.

For my heart was crushed with longing,
What had been could never be,
It was best to leave you thus dear,
Best for you, and best for me.

These are the lyrics to the song In The Gloaming as sung by Dana Reeve at the end of Christopher Reeve's directorial debut from the film of the same title . . . written by Anne F. Hamson & Meta Orred . . . performed by Dana Reeve . . .

Young Cardinals

I've been trying to capture these young ones (with the camera) for several days now . . . but they are way more skittish than the baby mockingbirds . . . they fly away the minute they see me come around the corner . . . this image is filtered through the mesh of the screen on my bathroom window . . . that's what created the soft-focus look of this photo while I manually focused the camera on the birds . . . I was watching as many as eight cardinals while taking photos . . .

Weed, Minus the Green