Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Neighborhood drama

This past weekend I was sitting on my porch reading when I smelled a barbeque going. "Boy, where was my invite?" I wondered. Then the fire chief goes flying past my house. And then there goes the cop car. "Hummmm.... maybe that wasn't a barbeque?" Next come 2 fire engines. Gee, where is Kyle when you need him? With all his radios, I always know what is going on but no, today he was at school. I ran in and told Jay and Shelby about the trucks and they ran down the block. I, of course, ran and got my camera first. Thankfully it was only a neighbor's shed that was up in flames...nothing major was lost. But a bit of excitement was had by the whole neighborhood.


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Mothers' Day

I had the best Mothers' Day this year. After church my whole family came with me to the NY Botanical Gardens (along with 8 million or so other people) to walk around and spend time together. I also warned them I was bringing my camera and tripod and that they would just have to suck it up..it was my day. Here is a family shot, maybe this year's Christmas photo. The other picture is a shot I took while zooming in my lens..fun stuff


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Arlington National Cemetery

Ok..I think I have this figured out,when Picasa changed formats I started having problems posting my blog. I spend time writing and then go to post and it all disappears. But I think it will work if I stop trying to add so many photos in one entry so here goes...down to 2....


A couple of weeks ago I drove down to Virginia with my dad and oldest sister to visit T and her girls. They are entirely too adorable. The main reason we headed down there was that on Monday of last week my dad's friend, John, was being buried at arlington National Cemetery. John had been a prisioner of war during WWII and was able to have a gravesite in DC. I had never beed to a true miitary funeral before and was so moved by the whole tradition. Now I have never been much for burials and all but this was such a moving final acknowledgement of a man who sacrificed much for our country. These photos are from an earlier burial that we saw while waiting to meet up with John's family and I cried through the whole service..I was so moved. I am so proud to see how w!!ell our military takes care of their own. God Bless America!!

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