twenty-one heron salute

 

Moran Rainbow

Last evening at the Florida Gateway College in Lake City I attended a series of talks titled Our water,Our future. The keynote speaker was the celebrated photographer John Moran, who specializes in the Springs of Florida. Making my way to the college, I noticed a wonderful rainbow off to the east. As I came to the Levy Performing Arts Center, I saw Moran walking for his car. I stopped and reintroduced myself as the guy he photographed several years ago for the Lake City Logo controversy. He said he had been up since 3AM putting his show together and was going to catch a nap before the start in thirty minutes. I told him I was torn between his talk and capturing the rainbow. He laughed and said, its all in foreground, meaning, I told him I was trying to get a good view of the rainbow but the pines were obstructing. So I hurried over to the new Library and was able to get the shot. In order to balance the sky and the "foreground", I used a polarized sunglass as a neutral density filter, placing it over the sky and carefully lining it up on the horizon line.
It is a good trick for the times you do not have a filter, or with one of the little point and shoot cameras lacking filters.

Lil Kindergarten Caboose

In Lake City or Columbia County several years ago, all the Kindergarten students attended a wonderful campus North of town. Out on the playground, the center of attraction was a real caboose that the kids especially enjoyed. I recall both my nieces Allison and Jessica attending the Kindergarten Center.
Now the Center is used for truant students and it more resembles a prison. Sad.

Floyd and the Pink Bike

Every child that lives near concrete or brick should be given chalk crayons. I love to come upon their creations. This particular one appealed to me as Pink Floyd is my favorite rock group. I wonder if the kids heard mom and dad playing the song or if they played them?

Watermelon Tub

Came upon this novel idea for a wash tub. I have collected several from my fathers place and think that I shall convert some of them into similiar designs...squash,cucumber,okra,etc.

Cool Fronts Coming...

 

Never ending light

The journey that Gary Mack and his family are now undertaking with Nan his wife having suffered a stroke recalls the time we went through the same path with Melanie. I trust that Gary in this will draw near her bed often in prayer and intense supplication. Nan was one of the first girls I went out with once way back when I first came to Lake City after college in 1979. She attended the same church I did at the time, Wesley Memorial United Methodist. Her mother has continued a good friend over the years with my mom and her best friend Barbara Thomas. Gary was a student in my Sunday school class while in Williston and continues as a good friend of my brother Lewis.

Scouting

 

Crescent Calm

 

heights of Aven

 

Crescent Crescendo

 

Little Orphant Annie

 

Little Orphant Annie
by James Whitcomb Riley

Little Orphant Annie's come to
our house to stay,
An' wash the cups an' saucers
up, an' brush the crumbs
away.
An shoo the chickens off the
porch, an' dust the hearth, an'
sweep.
An' make the fire, an' bake the
bread, an' earn her board-an'-
keep;
An all us other children, when
the supper-things is done,
We set around the kitchen fire
an' has the mostest fun
A-list'nin' to the witch-tales 'at
Annie tells about,
An' the Gobble-uns' at gits
you
Ef you
Don't
Watch
Out!

Wunst they wuz a little boy
wouldn't say his prayers,-
An' when he went to bed at
night, away up-stairs,
His mammy heerd him holler,
An' his Daddy heerd him bawl,
An' when they turn't the
kivvers down, he wuzn't there
at all!
And they seeked him in the
rafter-room, an' cubby-hole,
an' press,
An' seeked him up the
chimbly-flue, an' ever'-wheres,
I guess;
But all they ever found wuz
thist his pants an'
roundabout.-
An' the Gobble-uns 'll git you
Ef you
Don't
Watch
Out!

An' one time a little girl 'ud
allus laugh an' grin,
An' make fun of ever' one, an'
all her blood-an'-kin;
An' wunst, when they was
"company," an' ole folks wuz
there,
She mocked 'em an' shocked
'em, an' said she didn't care!
An' thist as she kicked her
heels, an' turn't to run an'
hide.
They wuz two great big Black
Things a-standin' by her side,
An' they snatched her through
the ceilin' 'fore she knowed
what she's about!
An' the Gobble-uns 'll git you
Ef you
Don't
Watch
Out!

An' Little Orphant Annie says,
when the blaze is blue,
An' the lamp-wick sputters, an'
the wind goes woo-oo!
An' you hear the crickets quit,
an' the moon is gray,
An' the lightnin'-bugs in dew is
all squenched away,-
You better mind yer parunts,
an' yer teachurs fond an' dear,
An' churish them 'at loves you,
an' dry the orpant's tear,
An' he'p the pore an' needy
ones 'at clusters all about,
Er the Gobble-uns 'll git you
Ef you
Don't
Watch
Out!