Spring flowering tree
We mrt a friendly cat after my husband had his hair cut
She was a sweetie
but this cat looks menacing – it’s all in the coloring
a grand old New England hotel of a bygone era
Miscellany April 30, 2016
King’s Chapel Boston April 29, 2016
Burial Ground for my ancestor Col Thomas Dexter Thomas was an early settler who arrived in Lynn Massachusetts in 1630. He was born in Bristol England in 1594. He lived to the ripe old age of 82.
Willa Cather – Author, Poet
Willa Cather, 1873-1947
I am currently reading a book of selected letters by this author. It is a very thick and fascinating book. I am enjoying it immensely. She is of my maternal grandparents generation. I wonder if they read her books as they were published. I wonder if my parents did. I read a few of them years ago and now I want to reread some of them. If I recall correctly I chose one for my book group in Ireland but it was not a popular choice. Maybe her books are more for an American audience. O Pioneers is one of her better known works and reflects her experiences living in Nebraska, her home growing up and her family base for many years. She is possibly best known as the author of the Middle West.
to be continued
Return to Past Ways April 27, 2016
I have joined the ranks of home delivery – groceries and other household items. And of course there is ordering online and then the postman or a private delivery service leaves the item at your door. Oh joy. Years ago my mother had groceries delivered to our home. The milkman and the iceman came regularly, and the knife sharpener. And of course the U.S. Postal Service has a long history going back to the 1800’s.
So my great recent discovery of the present day version of the convenience of home delivery shouldn’t come as such a surprise.
coal delivery in Windsor England, years ago
Lyme New Hampshire, Market wagon
Katerina having a napA Moving Tribute
Sorry about the orientation of this photo
It’s titled Sherpa The Memoir of Ang Tharkay. He was a very skilled Nepalese sherpa who climbed with some of the greatest mountaineers in the 1920’s-1940’s. I have read quite a bit about mountaineering and the skill of the Sherpas in their roles assisting the European climbers. Also I visited Nepal for about 5 weeks in 1965 and since then I have been attuned to anything Nepalese.
There is much to relate about this book – which I enjoyed very much. But what I want to relate here is the tale of a very faithful dog, named Togo, a Tibetan dog who attached himself to Ang Tharkay and became his bodyguard. Togo was gentle, affectionate, and faithful. However he was very large and looked ferocious.
One day as a group of mountaineers were descending from a high camp. Togo was docilely following down a steep slope covered with a thick layer of snow. And Tharkay was roped up with 2 other Sherpas when his crampons slipped and he started sliding, pulling the 2 other Sherpas with him. Togo came to the rescue grabbing Ang Tharkay’s arm and holding on. The other 2 Sherpas were buried in the snow but Ang T was able to pull them out. The men proceeded to descend quickly, hearing the rumble of an avalanche. Alas, the men reached safety, but not poor Togo who was buried at the spot where he had previously saved his master.
St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Essex, England April 24, 2016
my 11X Great Grandfather is buried here in Essex England
from a Google search
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Seattle Now & Then: The Great White Fleet, 1908
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THEN: About a year after he recorded this fashionable throng on Second Avenue celebrating the visit of President Theodore Roosevelt’s Great White Fleet in the spring of 1908, Frank Nowell became the official photographer for Seattle’s six-month-long Alaska Yukon and Pacific Exhibition in 1909.
NOW: As a guide, Jean Sherrard’s ‘repeat’ includes, on the far right, a glimpse of the Moore Theatre at the southeast corner of Virginia Street and Second Avenue.
Perched near, and somehow above, the sidewalk on the east side of Second Avenue, Frank Nowell, the photographer of this flood of fashionable pedestrians, is standing about a half-block north of Stewart Street. The crowd seems to spill onto Second from what the Times called the “immense viewing stand” on its west side. The pack has gathered to celebrate President Teddy Roosevelt’s ‘Great White Fleet’ during its four-day visit to Seattle. The American…
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Researching Old Churches
I had cause to look up St Mary Bothaw, an old church in London, only to discover that it had been destroyed by fire in the Great Fire in London, 1666. So no nice picture to offer you today. The marital venue of 2 ancestors in my family tree no longer exists. I suspect this is an intriguing avenue/sidetrack for further research.
Here is a picture from Wikipedia of the site of the former church.
Icons Found April 22, 2016
In researching my genealogy I’ve found some icons and images which I think are rather fun.
Medieval Knight
Medieval Lord
Charlotte Bronte, illustration for Jane Eyre
Lord William Joseph Ball
