I am finally reunited with my blog!!

        I finally discovered the setting I needed to change on the blogger website in order to prepare a new post.  So here I am!  I hope my readers enjoyed the most recent three posts --- about the Arctic Circle and Norway.  I continue to be amazed that I really went there.  My thanks again to Patty who kept me from giving up hope about ever being able to make the trip and for all the laughing we did, just like that week 50+ years ago when we met while training to be VISTA Volunteers in eastern Kentucky (me) and eastern Tennessee (Patty).

      Here we go!!!  

     I have wanted to share some favorite photos from the dozen or so years I have been doing this blog.  I may try to give the title or date of the post for each photo soon so that additional photos that go with it can be visited. If anyone wants to encourage me to do that, please let me know.  Enjoy!

mourning dove, out the kitchen window

April on the ridge, near my home

 

George Ella Lyon, after she gave a presentation at Natural Bridge State Park

George Ella and her college roommate/friend Chris, showing up to speak out in Kentucky's capital (Frankfort) about the damage done daily by MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL MINING.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sometimes I have visited family in England and in France:
 

winter grazing in England

NOTRE DAME, a year before the terrible fire that was felt around the world.

my son on the Seine  (River in Paris)

                                                            Now the inside story --- for the rest of us!

                      

on Christy Creek, almost to Morehead, one spring evening, for my photo class at MSU

Christmas decorations at my nearby friend Sandy's, lovely every year

More soon in two weeks, I sure hope. This all reminds me about how I love seeing what I see with a camera.

more spring glory in eastern Kentucky

post #239
        Today is redbuds, lilacs, chickweeds, and a pear tree.  Spring here is all about intensity this year, starting late, lots of rain, and an eager world awaiting.

our pond, too full, very muddy from the hillside run-off

redbuds along the road at Forks of the Caney, showing Grayson Lake over-full and even muddier

This is usually the boat launch area, but these fisherpeople are making the most of what shore they can find.

"The one that didn't get away was THIS big!"

Another stop along the road, this time for a tall old pear tree:

I turned to look over the other side of the road from the pear tree: the old building I check every spring

NOT a redbud, but even so beside the road like a redwood would be

two chickweed photos, beside the road to the Laurel Gorge Cultural Heritage Center, where I was delivering two of my framed photos for their spring art show

  
Next some pairs of photos, since as usual I seem to be all about telling stories as I go:

Lilac in the yard, April 14, 2015

Same lilac stem, April 19, 2015

Now two from another lilac bush in our yard, very tall, seen from the second floor of the house in the first photo, and, in the other view, from below, outside, with a different sky on that same day, April 19, 2015.

I particularly like this photo. Just saying.  And I am going to stop now, more next week!