Showing posts with label photos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photos. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Veteran's Day Photos: Final Colors of Autumn

Even on a gloomy, misty day, there is beauty to be found.

These photos were taken today, Veteran's Day, at Cave Hill Cemetery. It is an historic place that includes a National Cemetery which honors the military service of the America's veterans.


Every Veteran's Day, a local veteran's group places flags on all graves
at the National Cemetery. An honorable tradition. This section holds 
graves of Civil War soldiers. 


Not sure what kind of trees these are, but the leaves looked like
pieces of gold hanging from the branches.


Close-up of droplets sparkling on the leaves. 
Perhaps someone can identify this tree for me?


This maple, although the photo doesn't capture it, looked as if someone
had plugged it in and flipped the electrical switch. Even under gray skies it was brilliant.


I love that I can see the graceful branching of this stately tree.


I am surprised that so many trees are still hanging on to their leaves.
 But, as I stood and took this picture, they were swirling all 
around me. It was like being in a 'leaf globe'. With rain and cold
coming in this week, I am glad I captured these colors of fall
before they disappear into winter.

Monday, October 28, 2013

A Teetering, Tottering Tower of Books

Grand Southern Literary Tour 2013
October 20 - October 27

A Tower of Books and...

...a Tower-ette of Books



Second Read Books
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
St. Augustine, Florida


Anastasia Books
As We Were by E.F. Benson
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Jeeves and the Tie That Binds by P.G. Wodehouse
St. Augustine, Florida


Color illustration from Anne of Green Gables


E. Shaver, bookseller
Note Cards of Savannah by local artist
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil autographed by
author John Berendt (I had it gift wrapped as a present to myself!)
Charlotte's Web (hardcover edition) by E.B. White
Savannah, Georgia



The Book Lady
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
The Bedside Guardian Volumes 28, 30, 33, and 35
Savannah, Georgia



Hattie's Books
On Love and Barley
Haiku of Basho
Brunswick, Georgia


Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Carl Sandburg Home - The Official National Park Handbook
My Connemara by Paula Steichen (Sandburg's granddaughter)
Chicago Poems - Carl Sandburg
Flat Rock, North Carolina


Joy of Books
The Grits (Girls Raised in the South) Guide to Life by Deborah Ford
Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon
Hendersonville, North Carolina



Robie Books
Books Notes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing and the Power of Ideas
Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
Great Modern Short Stories (1942) - Selected by Bennett Cerf
Postmark Paris: A Story in Stamps by Leslie Jonath
The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphries
Berea, Kentucky

Saturday, July 20, 2013

Jane Austen Festival Photos

Here are some random photos taken today at the Jane Austen Festival at Locust Grove. Tomorrow I will write about what went on and share some more photos, but now I am going to take a proper nap.
The Duel

Mr. Darcy Strips

Mr. Darcy in full dress

An Officer and a Gentleman

The Sedan Chair

Ann Sweeney in her Best Bonnet