Category: Marland
A very bad impersonation of the real deal by a well known painter from Iowa, which incidentally, is where I am from! Ignore the post on the railing that looks like a drumstick! 🙂
After having to sweep the snow off our sidewalk this morning, I got a longing to go see my Mother in Florida, and maybe play some golf! I guess it will have to wait till March!
Photo credits to my friend Ron!
2,476 Posts with 851 followers, and the most visited post being the Bengali Village Girl . I appreciate all the support I have felt. I attempted to give you a window into my life through the photos! I think I achieved the goal I had for this blog. I haven’t posted something every day, as I did for he first years. I have learned a lot from many other bloggers. I appreciate all the comments many of you have made over the years. One thing I would like to improve on, would be the captions for the daily posts, and possibly adding a quote or poem to the photos. I have rarely, if ever had a post without a photo, and it will likely stay that way! Enjoy the next 10 years! 🙂
I thought this would be an appropriate photo, since my wife has faithfully walked by my side, supporting me as I take photos, and blog!! Including walking together on the Highline Trail, near Logan pass in Glacier National Park, Montana this past summer!!
It’s National “Take a Hike” Day!
And “Homemade Bread Day!”
I woke up 51 years ago, and realized I had heard the bluebirds sing!! I had first met my wife the day before! The following ballad comes close to telling our story, though it was first recorded when we were 4 years old! For complete rendition!
I met a girl out in the hills who gave my lonely heart a thrill
Her beauty seemed just like a breath of spring
And when I looked into her eyes I thought of blue mid summer skies
When I held her hand in mine I heard the bluebirds sing
“I Heard the Bluebirds Sing” is a charming ballad about a happy older couple looking back on their courtship. The song was first recorded on a 78 rpm record in 1952 by Hod Pharis and Little Anne, for the Vancouver-based Aragon Label.
Of course, since I was the photographer in the photo, the photo is not mine! Thanks, Susan, for this great photo!
Also enjoyed homemade apple butter on home made bread from a wood-fired oven!
Nostalgia: A house we called home for four and one-half years!
Grandpa and Grandson on a lake in Northwestern Ontario!
My wife made my day very special! I came home from a taxi run at Noon, which meant we went out to eat for lunch instead of breakfast! As we were leaving, I mentioned that the lawn looked like it didn’t need mowing! In the morning it was dewy, and I decided I should put mowing the lawn on my list of activities! It was a puzzle to me, until my sweetheart mentioned that she had mowed the lawn while I was gone! She surely got me that time! Thanks heaps, and looking forward to many more years together!
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