Memorial Day

I highly recommend this photo essay for your Memorial Day reading. It was linked in a post on another blog. And don't forget the National Momement of Remembrance at 3PM (whatever timezone you are in) on Monday, 29 May 2006 (Memorial Day Observed).

A photo of the grave marker of my father's mother's mother's father.
(It is a modern VA issue marker, which is why it isn't pointed on top.)

Update: I found another good Memorial Day Post and thought I'd share it.

Tags: 2nd Texas Cav, Ancestors, Cherokee County Texas, Confederate Tombstones, CSA, John F Patton, Memorial Day, Photoblog, Union Grove Cemetery, and US Civil War

Sudan

I highly recommend this photo essay from the BBC's In Pictures. See also this photo.

Tags: Africa, BBC, Darfur, Genocide, Human Rights, Make Poverty History, ONE Campaign, Photojournalism, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Sudan

Warhol

I created this using Adobe Photoshop CS as an extra credit assignment for a Survey of Art History 2 class I took this Spring semester. A class in which I got an A, by the way. We were to create an original work of art that was a homage to a famous artist. I've always liked Warhol's soup cans and I drink a lot of Coca~Cola, so this seemed like a natural idea.

Tags: Adobe Photoshop CS, Andy Warhol, Coca~Cola, Photoblog, Photoshop, and Pop Art

Moon Rock Window

I've been there exactly twice (August 2004 & March 2005) and was in total awe both times. The Washington National Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul is just such a sacred and beautiful place. This pictue was taken in late August 2004. There is a piece of moon rock in the window, hence the nickname. Woodrow Wilson, the only U. S. President to be buried within the District of Columbia, and his second wife, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, are entombed in the crypt near this window, which is located above the side aisle on the Epistle side of the Cathedral's Nave.

Tags: Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, Lunar Rocks, Moon Rock Window, Moon Rocks, National Cathedral, Photoblog, Stained Glass, Stained Glass Windows, Washington, DC, Washington National Cathedral, Washington National Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, and Woodrow Wilson

The Beach

I took this photo in June or July of 2004. I miss the Pacific Ocean and I miss the Canon Beach Bakery. Oh, I'm glad I looked that link up, they now sell select items online!

Tags: Beach, Cannon Beach Bakery, Clatsop County, Oregon, Oregon Coast, Pacific Ocean, and Photoblog

Astor Column

Taken July 2004 on Coxcomb Hill. The viewing deck of the column is the highest point in Clatsop County.

Tags: Astor Column, Astoria, Clatsop County, Coxcomb Hill, North Coast, Oregon, & Photoblog

Fog on Lake Kanuga

This was taken the day before Labor Day 2005 at Lake Kanuga during Solo Flight 15. Solo Flight is the only national conference in the Episcopal Church for single (never-married, divorced, or widowed) adults of any generation.

Tags: Cross, Episcopal Singles, Fog, Kanuga, Lake, North Carolina, Photoblog, Solo Flight, and The Cross

Christus Rex

Taken on Labor Day 2005 in the memorial garden at St. James Episcopal, Hendersonville, NC.

The sparrow has found her a house and the swallow a nest where she may lay her young; * by the side of your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God. ~ Psalm 84:2, 1979 BCP page 707

Tags: Bird's Nest, Christus Rex, Garden, Hendersonville, North Carolina, Photoblog, Psalm 84:2, Saint James Episcopal, and Sparrow