Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

November 2007 - Egypt

Disney Wordless Wednesday - Letter V

I'm linking up here this week!
The theme this week is: The Disney Letter "V"

November 2013 - Orlando FL



V is for Vegetables.
At Epcot in the Sustainable Agriculture and Research Center they grow Vegetables Vertically!

inSPIREd Sunday

October 2011 - Beaufort NC

The Old Burying Ground, one of Beaufort's most interesting historic sites, is located along the quaint 400 block of Ann Street, just one block from the waterfront. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and one of the oldest cemeteries in North Carolina, the Old Burying Ground is the final resting place for soldiers who died during the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the Civil War. Other gravesites reflect Beaufort's storied past of broken hearts, lost children and early coastal life.


Methodist Church Adjacent to the Old Burying Ground

Visitors frequently leave small gifts and trinkets at the unusual gravesite of the little girl buried in a barrel of rum. According to the legend, a young girl traveled to England with her father who promised the child's mother to return her safely home. Sadly, on the return journey, the young girl died at sea. Desperately wanting to keep his promise to return home with his daughter, the girl's father purchased a barrel of rum from the ship's captain. He placed his daughter's lifeless body in the barrel of rum and returned her to Beaufort for burial at home.

Postcards

I had a nice shout out from Anne Arnott on Facebook and her blog showcasing some postcards I sent her.

Anne also posted some other postcards I had sent her.

One was from Cabo San Lucas.

And one from San Xavier Mission in Arizona.

Charlotte NC

Song-ography All You Need is Love

Here's a new fun meme to join! You'll Shoot Your Eye Out rules are:

1.  Would be kinda cool if you would link back to my blog somewhere...ANYWHERE
2.  Would be kinda cool if you "followed" me.  Not to the bathroom or anything creepy...just here in blog-land.
3.  Please link up using your permalink URL.
4.  Photos MAY or MAY NOT be recently taken.  Heck, sometimes you might see a song title and think "I ALREADY have an amaaaaaaazing photograph for that song title!"  No reason you shouldn't use it.  Amazing is amazing regardless of when it's taken, right?
5.  Would be kinda cool if you'd visit some of the other participants and leave a kind word or two.  I'm from Philly, and you KNOW we have a rep for being the kindest and friendliest peeps in the world :)
6.  You may have one photo,  or drop a photo bomb of photos in your link up post.  Just please make sure your photo(s) are an interpretation of the song title for the week. 
7.  Link-up will be available beginning Sunday mornings.
8.  Tell lots, and LOTS of your blogging friends so I don't feel like I'm sitting at the school lunch table all by myself on Sunday morning.  I don't want to be a "Lonesome Loser" and have to post a photo about it.Got it?  Sunday, link up, song titles, photographs that are interpretations, a mash up I'm calling Song-ography, be there...YO.



For this week's challenge I am sharing our love (of each other and) of travel through photos of ourselves. It also made me realize I haven't done any scrapping in a while!

"All You Need Is Love"

Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love, love, love

There's nothing you can do that can't be done
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy

Nothing you can make that can't be made
No one you can save that can't be saved
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time
It's easy

All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need

Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love, love, love

All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need

Nothing you can know that isn't known
Nothing you can see that isn't shown
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be
It's easy

All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need

All you need is love (All together, now!)
All you need is love (Everybody!)
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Yee-hai! (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)

The Green Charlotte NC Part 3

April 2014 - Charlotte NC

Last week I posted some photos of the giant book sculptures.
The week before I posted that I had enjoyed The Green so much that I would be back with more
photos.

Brick Kids - Life is an Open Book
The Brick Association of the Carolinas commissioned this sculpture honoring the AIA (American Institute of Architects) of both North and South Carolina. In keeping with the literary theme of The Green sculpture garden, "Life Is An Open Book" by Brad Spencer shows brick children climbing an open brick book.

Sepia Saturday

I'm posting at Sepia Saturday today. This week's challenge:

Florida Memory Stream On Flickr Commons

Ah, I remember it well. Get out your smart threads, polish up your brogues, stand around that imposing jukebox and spin those old favourites : "Summer Holiday", "V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N", or maybe "Viva Espana". Yes, it can only mean one thing : I am about to go on holiday again. But, worry not, who is looking after things whilst I am away but my fellow administrator - Marilyn. And the theme image Marilyn has chosen for Sepia Saturday 225 (post your posts on or around Saturday 26 April 2014) shows a group of smart young things stood around a jukebox. If you are theming this week there are endless possibilities - jukeboxes, music, the 1950s are just a few suggestions. All you have to do is to post your post, link your link, and visit your sepia friends. Easy-peasy ...... itsy-bitsy, yellow polka-dot bikini (control yourself, Alan) But before you pack your bag and fly off to Spain (oh, no, that's me isn't it!), here is a preview of what is in store over the next week or two.

I'm going with a travel theme. The man on the left is my grand uncle Alec Brennan and his wife Nora Sweetman is on the right. This would be in the 1950s and they are on a vacation from Dublin to the Isle of Man. The couple with them are the Stewarts as was written on the back of the photo.

I found a link to a repository of photographic representations of holidaymakers in the 1950s taken in Joe's Bar.

This link shows other holiday makers in Joe's.

Uncle Alec was born in 1911 as listed on the 1911 census.

Some other photos found online taken at Joe's.

Source

Friday My Town Shoot Out - Bells

Theme - BELLS

I've posted Toronto's Old City Hall before. I had intended to go out looking for bells to photograph this week but we know how stuff can get in the way.
I love being downtown when the bells chime.

Installed in 1900 this Gillett and Johnston clock has run nearly continuously since then - keeping time on the clock tower of the Toronto Old City Hall.

Be amazed - Toronto relies on this ancient clock to keep time for the downtown core.

The bells are legendary and are an aural symbol of Toronto. The chiming of the bells punctuate the city, marking each 15 minutes of the day - seven days a week, 24 hours a day.
The clock room houses three bells. The largest bell, all 11,000 pounds of it, is known as Big Ben. There is one small and unofficial inscription just below the coat of arms on the bell and reads "J.K.Oct.18, 1900". Four garnished stone gargoyles grace the upper corners of the clock tower.

British Isles Friday

Joy's Book Blog is hosting this weekly meme.

July 2005 - London England

I thought I'd post some fun photos from a family trip in 2005 to London and Ireland with my sister and family.

Taken at Madame Tussaud's.