I have been busy getting ready for my Texas trip, and watching the forecast temps getting higher and higher. Fortunately I will be staying in an air conditioned RV if it gets too hot, and the evenings will be pleasant, which is when we do a lot of roaming around the campground. I need to do a little work on our in ground sprinkler system today as well. There is at least one sprinkler head I need to replace, probably more. DW has planted several flowers, pepper plants and tomato plants and the sprinkler does not quite reach the bed where they are, so I need to make sure they will get water. Typical home maintenance stuff.
Hope everyone has a fun weekend planned.
"A moment in time
Immortalized forever
With silver and light"
05-21-2022, 10:37 AM (This post was last modified: 05-21-2022, 10:38 AM by Rich.)
Good Morning Don and all who follow.
Too bad on the heat in Texas. We are unseasonably cold. Frost possible tonight.
Yes, if DW goes to all the work to plant, you must get water to them!
On a trip to Boston and Cape Cod in 2015 we toured this cemetery in the heart of downtown Boston. Many interesting graves. Here are two.
Good morning Don & Rich and others.
Enjoy your travels, Don. Sounds like a fun trip. We enjoyed traveling in Texas and I am always worried about my garden crop when away. Thankfully I have others to do watering for me then.
Nice memorials, Rich. We toured Boston a few years ago also. Like looking in those old cemeteries. My wife hunts for old relatives.
Here's a big Rhodie in bloom a few miles up the coast.
Hi, Don, Rich, Steve!
Yes, I have yardwork to do, too, but my mower is still not working, and it's been weeks since I mowed! Since retirement, I don't have the money to replace my old John Deere ZTrak....it's 19 years old!!!! It's been a real workhorse for me! New ones I looked at are $14,000.00 YIKES! Guess I will call repair guy.....see what he can do with it.
Why do they put feathers and pennies on the grave, Rich? Have you done any family research, Rich? We found the graves of my husband's descendants that came to America in early 1700's in PA cemetery.....We did a LOT of research in the 1990's, traveling to places they lived in PA, Ohio, Illinois....were fun trips.....
WOW! Steve! That has some age to it! Your climate must be what it likes!
Here is a blossom from chives....was hoping a bee or insect would land on it.....but it was too hot sitting out there! I used my 105 mm macro manual lens
It seems like the headstone of Paul Revere should be something much more impressive for this Folk Hero of the American Revolution. I see a beautiful gray marbled headstone with at least the first two stanzas of the famous poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride” (1863), written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, etched on the back of the tombstone.
On the other hand, a less admired famous person was Henry Billings Brown, who served as a Justice to the Supreme Court (1890-1906). Although a respected lawyer and U.S. District Judge before ascending to the high court, Brown is harshly criticized for writing the majority opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, widely regarded as one of the most ill-considered decisions ever issued by the Court, which upheld the legality of racial segregation in public transportation.?
The Plessy VS. Ferguson Case: Separate But Equal Stands (1896) In 1892, Louisiana passed the Separate Car Act, which segregated carrier cars by race. On June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy, a light-skinned black man, sat in a "White" car, identifying himself as black in order to challenge the law. The thirty year-old Plessy was jailed for not sitting in the "Colored" car.[3]With seven votes for Ferguson and one vote against, the Supreme Court ruled that mandatory racial segregation was not in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Despite never using the term "separate, but equal," the court's ruling established that principle as a means of justifying segregation.[4]
It is a shame that in spite of many of the positive cases that Brown voted upon during his service as a Justice to the Supreme Court, he will always be marked by a single opinion he authored for the majority. Brown no doubt reflected the view in his day that whites were biologically separate from blacks and superior to blacks as a group.
His body rests in Elmwood Cemetary, Detroit Michigan. It was just one year ago that our camera club visited the cemetery. I did not know anything about this person until I decided to post this photograph and did a little research.
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Steve, I KNOW that i have not seen a RHODIE that big. Oh my goodness. That is beautiful. I don't think they have a fragrance, or do they?
Everytime you appear in the daily, Steve, I think about your tomato plants.
I am still debating whether to plant a garden this year. I know that I will be upset in three months if I do not have tomatoes to pick fresh from my garden but with doing all of the landscape work in the back, my garden is overrun with weeds. I am not sure how I would salvage it at this point. I was out there this morning at 7 am, debating what to do. If I do not grow tomatoes, I will buy a bushel from the Amish and make my spaghetti sauce, enough to last me for one year. We don't eat spaghetti once a week, like when I grew up. But it sure is different to have the sauce made with fresh tomatoes vs. canned.
Natalie, I see that you got your camera back out. Does it feel good in your hands? You sure took a wonderful photo to share with us. Way to pay attention to the background. Love all that color.
Lorell,
That Rhodie bush is about 20 foot tall by my estimate.
Hopefully, you will get some tomatoes growing. These are ten of my several varieties of heirlooms. I give many away. Already about 50 and a few dozen left to find home for. A nice assortment of peppers too. I do a private FB tomato group that is fun and good place to share info and photos, tips, etc. with folks you know.
Here's the ten growing strong and most will get 8 foot or better.
WoW Steve,
That is an awesome Rhodie!
What a fun hobby with the tomatoes
Do you ship?? Kidding!
Beautiful chive blossom Natalie! Pretty color! The background looks like a painting!
Lorell, there is a better monument with him riding a horse that is near the Old North Church.
Interesting story on your tomb!
My sister is into genealogy, she said our family is related to King Richard the 3rd. Must be the reason I have that name!
Went to local garden center to replace some cukes that didn't make it in my garden, and saw this beautiful pink rose! I would have bought it ($34.99, yikes) but I cannot grow roses ......my mom had beautiful roses in her yard, and I can't grow them. This one smelled heavenly!
Rich, it is a fun hobby and one that provides good eats.
Great rose, Natalie. Lovely presentation with the frame.
Lorell, no particular aroma with the rhodies. We do have a Mexican Orange growing between some rhodie bushes and it make you think you are smelling the beautiful colored rhodie blossoms.
Fortunately I will be staying in an air conditioned RV if it gets too hot, and the evenings will be pleasant, which is when we do a lot of roaming around the campground. I need to do a little work on our in ground sprinkler system today as well. There is at least one sprinkler head I need to replace, probably more. DW has planted several flowers, pepper plants and tomato plants and the sprinkler does not quite reach the bed where they are, so I need to make sure they will get water. Typical home maintenance stuff.
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