only in the South would they decorate with dried okra & Magnolia leaves. But i love the dried oranges, lemons, apples & cinnamon W/ gingerbread men cookies. I would guess that people smelled pretty nasty living in Birmingham, Alabama. summers are humid & hot down South. hanging dried fruit & cookies would have been a…
Tag: travel
you spin me right round
just…wow. Art.
The husband’s bedroom circa 1840
The Arlington House. Birmingham, Alabama. The Arlington House is the ONLY remaining Antebellum Mansion left in Birmingham today.
Alabama’s oldest restaurant
I’ve never been to downtown Bessemer. A friend & i were in the area because we needed an army/Navy store for our son’s ‘swat team’ Halloween costumes. She told me she was taking us to the Bright Star restaurant because i’d never been before. The town is very small, very old & quite empty….
the Friend Ship lollipop
i added going for a sail on this boat to my bucket list. Lake Champlain, Burlington, Vermont
horses at the stop sign
i was being driven around Northern Vermont by one of my bestest friends in the whole wide world…i saw so much beauty. at a high rate of speed, i tried desperately to relax & enjoy the view & i might have done, had i resided in Vermont. BUT, i am living in Alabama, i wanted…
the Civil War on the Yankee side
the quote is Abraham Lincoln’s…”fourscore and seven years…” St. Albans was the furthest north the war reached. It was mostly fought on the waters of Lake Champlain.
the church with the Do Not Enter sign
i alway assumed anyone was welcome in a church…the good kind anyway. St. Albans, Vermont
the orange VW van fits in nicely
in fall, it is camouflaged. i’m sure it is impossible miss the rest of the year. St. Albans, Vermont on a rainy afternoon.
treasures found at the water’s edge
the bowl was made by http://www.kettlerwoodworks.com . i walked along the shore of Lake Champlain in South Hero, Vermont. the beach was filled with slate. i looked for flat pieces big enough to be coasters for my home. i also found the snail shell & the stunning purple clam shell. all my treasures sit inside…
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