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Decoration Day Sleep, comrades, sleep and rest On this Field of...

Fri, 25 May 2012 08:38:09 -0400

Decoration Day

Sleep, comrades, sleep and rest
On this Field of the Grounded Arms,
Where foes no more molest,
Nor sentry’s shot alarms!

Ye have slept on the ground before,
And started to your feet
At the cannon’s sudden roar,
Or the drum’s redoubling beat.

But in this camp of Death
No sound your slumber breaks;
Here is no fevered breath,
No wound that bleeds and aches.

All is repose and peace,
Untrampled lies the sod;
The shouts of battle cease,
It is the Truce of God!

Rest, comrades, rest and sleep!
The thoughts of men shall be
As sentinels to keep
Your rest from danger free.

Your silent tents of green
We deck with fragrant flowers
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

From The Atlantic

A little about this section of the Cave Hill Cemetery from The Courier Journal:

On Monday, flags will be planted in front of roughly 6,100 Union soldiers and 228 Confederate soldiers buried at Cave Hill…

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Wed, 23 May 2012 21:41:38 -0400

By the way, this is one of the cameras my buddy Paul gave me....

Tue, 15 May 2012 08:50:52 -0400

By the way, this is one of the cameras my buddy Paul gave me. This kind of generosity is just one of the reasons I’m hoping we can Help Paul.

amydrake:

I finally have something I collect! I’ve never been one for figurines or decoration themes (though somehow I have managed to amass a bunch of pitchers). But now that word is out that I like film cameras, a friend who works at an antique store is always on the lookout and people are giving them to me. Besides being free, I love the gift cameras because they come with stories and are attached to people I know.

This Canon AE-1 was a gift from my friend Paul Ash. He used it when he worked at the local newspaper. I would love to see some of those pictures - I need to go dig through the paper’s archives.

It’s nice having an AE-1 again.

Help my friend Paul

Mon, 14 May 2012 14:11:00 -0400

Help my friend Paul:

This is a bit off topic for a photo blog, but it’s important to me.

My friend Paul has been fighting cancer for seven years now. His doctor would like to try a promising new treatment that the VA doesn’t cover yet. If enough people kick in $10, he can get this treatment.

What do you say? $10 or whatever you can spare.

(Tumblr pals: Whether or not you can give, a reblog would be greatly appreciated.)

My peonies are blooming! I love them. On a side note, because I...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:06:00 -0400

My peonies are blooming! I love them.

On a side note, because I live in northernmost Dixie, I get to tell stories like this one: Until I was in my late teens I thought there were two different plants - peonies and pineys (pronounced PIE-knees). Turns out my grandmother (who says peonies) and my great-grandmother (PIE-knees) were talking about the same thing (pictured above).

There’s art happening at my house today! (she has her own...

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:12:00 -0400

There’s art happening at my house today!

(she has her own photoblog)

March 27: Your Name Can you see it?

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:11:00 -0400

March 27: Your Name

Can you see it?

Spring is so early.

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:24:00 -0400

Spring is so early.

March 24: An Animal Oh, deer. Taken at Abe’s Country...

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 22:07:00 -0400

March 24: An Animal

Oh, deer.

Taken at Abe’s Country Village Motel store in Brandenburg, Kentucky - a weird little place.

March 22: Kitchen sink (with tea duckie and breakfast dishes)

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:28:09 -0400

March 22: Kitchen sink (with tea duckie and breakfast dishes)

March 21: Delicious I know, I know. Enough with the strawberries...

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:45:19 -0400

March 21: Delicious

I know, I know. Enough with the strawberries already, right?

March 20: Before / After Thanks to Dennis and Casey Ellis,...

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:53:19 -0400

March 20: Before / After

Thanks to Dennis and Casey Ellis, especially Casey (who took one for the team)

March 19: Funny Dr. Who Visits the Last Day of the...

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:43:00 -0400

March 19: Funny

Dr. Who Visits the Last Day of the Dinosaurs

Concept by Amy Drake

Art Direction and Production Design by Robert Casey Ellis, Esq.

In conjunction with Honorable Mention Productions

Strawberries, I love you so much!

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:52:32 -0400

Strawberries, I love you so much!

March 18: A corner of your home The best corner of my home today...

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:52:00 -0400

March 18: A corner of your home

The best corner of my home today because it comes with strawberries.

March 17: Green

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:13:08 -0400

March 17: Green

March 16: Sunglasses I am not killing it with this photo...

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:30:05 -0400

March 16: Sunglasses

I am not killing it with this photo challenge. Sunglasses? Well, here they are. I met my brother for dinner and set my sunglasses on the menu at one of our local favorites. Then I remembered I hadn’t come up with anything good for the photo challenge. Not A work, but at least I turned in the assignment, I guess.

March 14: Car (+ bonus photo: strawberry pie and...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:55:00 -0400

March 14: Car (+ bonus photo: strawberry pie and fork)

Today’s photo challenge was “car.” But I didn’t have much time and wasn’t feeling particularly inspired (which is unusual - my Subaru is often photographed pulled off on the side of the road when I’m taking pictures of something else).

I was much more excited by the strawberry pie at the Ritz, so that’s thrown in on today’s challenge. We’ll count it for a belated Pi day and the March 12 challenge “fork.”

Edit: I couldn’t stand seeing the boring picture of my car, so I deleted it. To paraphrase: strawberry pie forever.

Custer State Park I never thought I would see a whole herd of...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:01:00 -0400

Custer State Park

I never thought I would see a whole herd of bison.

It rained cats and dogs (or burros and bison) that day. We drove around the park for a while then stopped at the nature center to ask where we were most likely to find the bison. He gave us general directions to find the herd. Herd! Maybe we had just been in the car too long, but I was really excited.

I shot from the car for for safety. A guy in a truck not far from us thought he could get out - I’m not sure what the goal was unless he really was seeking a painful death - but he thought better of it.

Anyway. Here they are: Great big wet bison.

March 14: Clouds (more contrails than clouds, but I also wanted...

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:36:34 -0400

March 14: Clouds

(more contrails than clouds, but I also wanted to get the buds in, too, and that was my piece of sky)