My World Tuesday ~ 4-5-11

Country Skyline


"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books
~John Lubbock

This post is linked to “My World Tuesday"

Daily Photo 4-5-11

A Father and His Daughter

“A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart.” 

~Author Unknown

There is something I adore about looking at my son walking hand in hand with his six year old daughter or carrying her piggy-back. I like shooting them from behind, because that way neither one is posing for the picture. Saturday morning, before Eloise’s birthday party that afternoon, we all went over to her school to see the individual classroom victory gardens they had built. It was quite windy and chilly and E. was freezing. Don’t you know it would just have to turn cold, windy, and rainy on the day of her big party. While we were walking around the schoolyard, I grabbed this shot. 

This post is linked to Lisa Gordon’s "Creative Exchange.”

Daily Photo ~ 4-4-11

Spring Has Sprung

"Where flowers bloom so does hope.”

 - Lady Bird Johnson 

This post is linked with Mellow Yellow Monday.

Sunday Bridges ~ 4-3-11

The Remains of the Old Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Bridge 

Lexington, Virginia

On these pilings once sat the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad bridge over the Maury River that brought the trains into Lexington, Virginia. Sadly, after Hurricane Camille took it out, the bridge was not rebuilt and the trains quit running into town. In the years to come,  there were a number of different footbridges built on these pilings forming a connection between Woods Creek and the Chessie Trail, but each time they were lost to flooding.  Now all we have left as a reminder of days past are the old pilings. The last footbridge was beautiful and such a pleasure to walk across, but like so many nice things in this area is not being replaced due to it vulnerability to floating downstream when the waters rise and flood. The building way up on the hill above the river is Virginia Military Institute founded in 1839.  On 12 June 1864 Union forces under the command of General David Hunter shelled and burned the Institute as part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864. The destruction was almost complete and VMI had to temporarily hold classes at the Alms House in Richmond, Virginia. 

"Any victory would be dear at such a price.”

~Robert E. Lee, on the death of Stonewall Jackson

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San Francisco Bay Daily Photo

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Daily Photo ~ 4-3-11

Spring in Richmond, Virginia


“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
~Claud Monet

Daily Photo ~ 4-2-11

Mr. Green


"The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never."
 ~Yiddish Proverb

Weekend in Black and White ~ 4-2-11

April Fool’s Day ~ 7:30 A.M. ~ The Drive to Work

Look behind the trees on the right, and you will see there is still snow on our mountains. 

"Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them. “

~Julia Louis-Dreyfus

This post is linked with:

 The Weekend in Black and White, the home for monochrome maniacs,

 Newtown Area Photo - Weekend Reflections,  

Daily Photo ~ 4-1-11

Two Birds Sitting in a Tree

Use the talents you possess - for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds 

sang except the bet."

  ~Henry Van Dyke