Hometown Scenery

This week I have enjoyed the drive to and from the office so much. The stretches of highway are becoming quite beautiful to travel.

I have driven a few of the back roads on my way home to enjoy the wonderful Fall views. 

The road to this old bridge is not heavily traveled so I can stop to shoot a picture or two with no problem.  The bridge has wonderful shadows too, so it was a photo must. 

This time of year as I am driving I am always on the look out for deer and turkey. There are a few areas in particular that they are often seen. My husband met up with a deer about a week ago, he has a big dent in the hood of his car now, courtesy of Mr. Buck.

I happened upon two turkeys this week. I always slow way down when I see them, as they will run across the road in front of you sometimes. There was no traffic on the road, so I was able to stop and capture this shot. I tried to get a photo of the two of them, but they ran off into the woods before I could get another shot. 

Many yards are covered with leaves, making them such a beautiful fall scene. 

I zoomed in on the leaves not noticing the shadow in the shot until I put the picture on my computer. An added plus. I guess it is the tree's branches casting the shadow, as there wasn't anything in the yard except the tree... and me.  

Several yards in the area have these beautiful Burning Bush shrubs in them. I have always thought these were so nice with their brilliant deep red color. This yard has two of the larger ones in the area, their color is a little more dull than most of the smaller ones, but they are still quite beautiful. 

Many barns are housing tobacco crops, just waiting for the farmers to begin the stripping process. With rain being forecast for the coming week, I am sure the farmers will be starting this process. The Holidays are right around the corner and they will be needing shopping money.

I know in the past, when we raised tobacco, we tried to take advantage of the fall rains to get as much tobacco stripped and sale ready before the holidays as we possibly could.

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Halloween

HALLOWEEN

This is a Halloween Song that I found on You Tube that was posted by KIBOOMU.

Halloween, Halloween

Creepy, crawly Halloween

Trick or Treat all in fun,

October 31st has come

Halloween, Halloween

Spooky, kooky Halloween

Kids in costumes, what a sight

On Halloween tonight

Big black cats

Vampire bats

Ghosts and goblins out tonight

Causing quite a fright

Halloween, Halloween

Painted faces, what a scene

Door to door

They trick or treat

For something sweet to eat

Halloween, Halloween

Celebrating Halloween

Jack-o'-lanterns all aglow

So the ancient stories go

Halloween, Halloween

Celtics started Halloween

They celebrated harvest time
With gifts of food and wine

 (Must be a Family Thing with the glasses - My Aunts and My daughter)

Candles glow

Spirits go

Bringing luck and fortune too

This is what they knew

Halloween, Halloween

Now they call it Halloween

Skulls and bones

Create the scene

Very scary Halloween

Halloween, Halloween
Let's have fun on Halloween

Witches fly
And children scream
Tonight on Halloween

Witches fly
And children scream
Tonight on Halloween!





I had a ton of fun putting this together. I love going through old pictures and being able to share them with others. Most of these are of my kids on Halloween. Batgirl is my neice. The silly glasses ladies are my Aunts. The man as a woman is a local DJ, (Scooter Davis), Zombies are borrowed from my brother, (Louisville's Zombie Walk 8:29 on 8/29/11) and the last one is of me and a co-worker at a sewing factory in 1992, (I am Hulk Hogan). Can you believe we actually worked like this all day.
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Flagler College

With the rain this past week and this sinus infection, I haven't had much of a chance to capture any shadows. So I scoured through some old photos and decided to share a few from our honeymoon. We spent a few days in St. Augustine and toured several historic places. One of my favorites was Flagler College.

It was built as a luxury hotel, (The Hotel Ponce De Leon), in 1887 and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

This is the main building, Ponce De Leon Hall, (Note the shadow of one of the huge palm trees here).

Our tour began in the main building, entering the Rotunda. The intricate details of this entire property is truly amazing. For instance the gold paint in the murals is actually 14K gold.  

The Tiffany Stained Glass windows nestled among mosaics and Terracotta figures were so very pretty. We weren't allowed to go to the upper floors so my pictures were a bit dark with the sun shining through the windows.

Italian artist Virgilio Tojetti prepared the ceiling murals in the Grand Parlor. They are spectacular, my pictures do not do them justice.

The Dining Hall is another large room with stained glass windows and murals on the ceiling.

This hotel, now college, is rich with history and is a very interesting place to see.

It was the nation’s first major poured-in-place concrete structure and, thanks to the Edison Electric Company, was one of the first buildings in the nation to have electricity.

The hotel's guest would stay, a required, 3 months at a time.  

It has hosted it's share of the rich and famous, from Teddy Roosevelt to Mark Twain and baseball legend Babe Ruth. The hotel was one of the few of Henry Flagler's hotels that were not casualties of the Great Depression.

If you are in or near St. Augustine, I Highly recommend taking this tour. (Though it is only available for tours in the summer months).

                                    



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Harvest Time

 Harvest Time

Artist: Luke Bryan

Album: Tailgates and Tanlines

Released: August 2011

Written By: Luke Bryan/Rodney Clawson

There's peanut dust and corn husk drifting through the air tonight
The marching band's warming up under the football lights







There's tractor trailers backed up down by the elevators
Train track grain car a-rolling later
Get filled up and head on out in the world

It's harvest time in this little town
Time to bring it on in
Pay the loans down

Fill the diesel tank up
And make another round


There's a big red moon coming up in the sky

Combine's cutting in a staggered line

The only time of year
We miss the church bell's chime

It's harvest time











There's a thermos and a water jug
Rolling around in the cab

A set of socket wrenches

Wrapped up in a greasy red rag

Bobby's mother pulls in the field

Bringing us supper

We grab a bite and make sure to hug her

Saddle back up and let the big wheels roll

It's harvest time in this little town

Time to bring it on in
Pay the loans down

Fill the diesel tank up

And make another round

There's a big red moon coming up in the sky
Combine's cutting in a staggered line

The only time of year
We miss the church bell's chime

It's harvest time

At a quarter till two I kick off my boots
In the laundry room,
We'll start it all over tomorrow at noon
Till it's all done, until we're all done

It's harvest time in this little town
Time to bring it on in
Pay the loans down

Fill the diesel tank up
And make another round

There's a big red moon coming up in the sky
Combine's cutting in a staggered line

The only time of year
We miss the church bell's chime
It's harvest time

It's harvest time



 
 
 
 

It is indeed Harvest Time in my neck of the woods. This post is dedicated to the hard working farmers, everywhere I go I see hay, corn, soybeans, tobacco, wheat, etc... being harvested and hauled. Often, especially in the mornings, tractors and combines can be seen driving along the highways heading to the fields to bring in those crops.  
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