I loved this sign and circled back several miles just to make a half effort to photograph it out my car window.
Perhaps the last picture I post from my trip to Kansas.
This week’s Personal Photo Project was to photograph the statue store where most of my immense collection of frog statues come from… the Browse-A-Bout in Kentucky.
I finally saw this place in person on Teresa, Logan, and I’s trip to Kentucky to visit Ernie.
The remainder of the Browse-A-Bout Series:
Next week’s Personal Photo Project will involve flowers again. Coneflowers or hollyhocks or lilies or sunflowers…
My Grandpa Paris passed away a few months after I was married in 2002. All of the stuff in his garage went mostly untouched for several years. Then about 3 years ago some of my aunts and uncles decided to rent out his garage so that Grandma could have a little extra cash each month. That required emptying out the garage.
One day I received a call from my Mom asking me if I wanted to go through any of the tools before they were thrown away. I’m not really a tool person, but I came over any way. I looked through the tools and didn’t really claim much of anything, but along the side of the garage was a big pile of random stuff. I asked what that stuff was, thinking that it had been set aside for somebody else, because it looked to be some pretty good stuff.
Only this pretty good stuff had only been set aside for the garbage man. So I started looking through it.
Somewhere in this collection I found a small picture frame, with a broken piece of glass, and a hand written bit of scripture from Romans. I grabbed this, took it home, cleaned it up, and sat it in my living room.
This picture frame was moved out of my living room when I was in deep on the floor project. Recently, I found where I had placed it and brought it back to the living room. A few hours later, I started working on cleaning and organizing and downsizing my guest bedroom. In this bedroom among the stuff I need to throw away, give away or just doesn’t quite belong to me, I found a small picture frame of the same size. I decided to take the glass from this frame and put it in the frame holding my grandpa’s scripture.
I pulled the back off grandpa’s picture frame and discovered that there wasn’t just one sheet of paper in the frame. There were several other quotes in there. I never would have found these other pieces of paper, if it wasn’t for that broken piece of glass.
The rest of the Found Series:
It definitely was a cool little discovery.
After 2 failed years of trying to snag an invite to Love Feast, I finally scored one in 2013. It was a pretty amazing experience (I would tell you more about Love Feast, but you have to ask) and the bonus surprise was the old army radar tower.
Funk had always told me that she grew up on an old army base from the 1950s. I never really believed her because it didn’t make sense to me that there was an army base so near to my front door, and I had never even known of its existence.
The cool thing about the radar tower is that it is built to 1950s ideas of safety. Meaning the steps are small and the railing is short. Since this is private land and not a park, the railing on the observation deck consists of two cables. Before I made the ascent to the observation deck, the Bishop (AKA Funk’s father) reminded me of the “gravity” portion of the sermon I had listened to. I understood why, when I saw the railing.
Here are more pictures from the Repurposed Series:
I believe I’ve secured an invitation to future Love Feasts and even an opportunity to go pick vegetables on the farm some day.
I can’t wait for the Winter Solstice this week. I can’t wait for the days to start getting longer again!
This week’s themes:
Day 141 – Candy Canes
Day 142 – Holiday Sparkle
Day 143 – Something Beginning with “S”
Day 144 – Weather
Day 145 – Tree
Day 146 – Decoration
Day 147 – Joy is…
Since most of the random pictures I’ve taken are of the “can’t-quite-publish-yet” variety, I thought I would publish some of my favorite Instagram pictures of the last few months.
Since I got a new phone and have been able to get back on Instagram.
Of course, if you follow me on Instagram, you’ve seen all of these pictures before.
If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve seen most of these pictures before.
If we are friends on Facebook, you’ve seen a few of these pictures before.
What my Birthday Cake will Look Like Next Year
Sara and Shawn – Pufferbilly Days Parade
Boone First United Methodist Church
Recently donated to the Boone First United Methodist Church Youth Group
Tenderloining without my Partner – Legal Limit
Instagram may have replaced Twitter as my favorite social media outlet. Not as useful as Twitter, but probably more fun. Plus I may have an addiction to the Photo Map feature. Even though what that feature tells me is that I need to road trip in the worst possible way.