My Love of Pink

When I’m Down Pink Uplifts Me 

“The Possible’s slow fuses is lit 
By the Imagination."
~Emily Dickinson

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Camp Maxwelton's Green Barn

Go to Maxwelton~Learn about Life

“Making memories with FRIENDS is not a waste

of time. It’s a lifetime moment that we’ll surely

TREASURE when an old age comes.”

~Author Unknown

The Barn at Camp Maxwelton, Rockbridge Baths,VA

This picture is from my archives dating back to 2011. All three of my Maryland grandsons attended as campers and then as counselors. All of the counselors for both the boys' and girls’ camps are former campers. A fellow teacher of mine (high school biology, Lee McLaughlin, and his wife and sons continue to run the camp his daddy started years ago ~ 1951 we think. Here boys learn about love for one another, gentlemanly behaviors, sportsmanship, honor, compassion, and reverance as well as rafting, hiking, cooking a pig all night long for the 4th of July, mountain biking, horseback riding, wall climbing, archery and shooting...and the list goes on and on. Families send their sons generation after generation and many return there for their weddings. Camp Maxwelton is loved by all who have ever been there ~ camper or visitor ~ and especially Buddy and me. Even though our grandsons are now in and out of college, we are still welcomed there with open arms and enjoy our visits. The barn continues to look exactly like this today. It is a beautiful, well kept structure that stands out like a diamond in the rough. Now, they have a fourth generation coming along to carry on this wonderful camp.

This second little quote makes me giggle. It is definitely my grandsons and me. Buddy is a way different story :-)

“I hate camping, but I love summer camp.”

~Zooey Deschanel

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Waiting Patiently

Cardinal Waiting Patiently In It’s Tree

“Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.”
~Henry Van Dyke

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  Camera Critters, NF DAM ~ Digital Art, 
Wild Bird Wednesday, Saturday Critters

A Girl’s Pictorial Journal of Years Past

Worn and Torn but Still Lives

It has been several years since I have tried to use textures, but I’ve decided it is time to reteach myself. This is my first attempt, and it certainly leaves a lot to be desired. Still, I have to start somewhere. This album belonged to my children’ father’s mother. It is filled with pictures, newspaper articles, and notes from her friends spanning from high school through college. It is truly a treasure.

"Tonight, as I looked out my window

At the snowflakes, lovely and white,

I thought of the days of my childhood

Long past, all so happy and bright,”

~Gertrude TooledBuckingham, “The First Show of the Season” (1940s)

This post is linked with Little Things Thursdays over at Kim’s blog, Little by Little
and 
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