We rose and shone early this morning. Dinner is in the process of cooking and we are just hanging out waiting for it to cook. Our menu for dinner is turkey breast, stuffing, cranberry sauce, green jello salad, sweet potatoes, rolls and pecan pie for dessert.
Mom has been out in the yard chasing around a cardinal. She really got several great pictures. I'm sure that the Virginia Wildlife will be seeing one of those in next year's photo contest. I was able to take this one out of Mamaw's front window - Mom showed me a new way to make it look more like a poster and do a few other enhancements. I think that it came out well.
We hit the jackpot on looking through Mamaw Stapleton's old photographs. We found the picture of Dan Baker aka 'Double nose Dan', twin brother of Isaac Baker. I knew that this photo exisited and haven't seen it in many a year.....I am looking forward to finding out further information about Dan when I visit with our cousin David Baker on Saturday. I spent a good portion of the afternoon scanning in photos that belong to Mamaw so that Mom & I could bring them home so that we could have copies.
Our cousin, Bobby Baker came up for Thanksgiving dinner this afternoon and had a wonderful time visiting together. We talked about family, religion and politics all those juicy topics that no one is ever supposed to talk about. But we had a great conversation and all very very civil.
He told us that the Christmas lights were being lit this evening in Pennington Gap at Leeman Field. Mom is looking forward to taking pictures of the light displays. As we left out for Leeman field we saw a beautiful crescent moon - no pictures :( Maybe tomorrow night. We walked through the light displays and it was quite a trek. I do believe that we may have just about wore Mamaw out. Mom & I both took oodles of pictures of the displays, but lights are a terribly hard thing to photograph so we didn't get too many keepers, but just enough.
We rounded out the evening with me working on a few photos to post and Mom & Mamaw watching "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". Mamaw has been working on heading to bed for about an hour now - I guess that sleep is going to wait until the movie is over. Hehe..
Mom has been out in the yard chasing around a cardinal. She really got several great pictures. I'm sure that the Virginia Wildlife will be seeing one of those in next year's photo contest. I was able to take this one out of Mamaw's front window - Mom showed me a new way to make it look more like a poster and do a few other enhancements. I think that it came out well.We hit the jackpot on looking through Mamaw Stapleton's old photographs. We found the picture of Dan Baker aka 'Double nose Dan', twin brother of Isaac Baker. I knew that this photo exisited and haven't seen it in many a year.....I am looking forward to finding out further information about Dan when I visit with our cousin David Baker on Saturday. I spent a good portion of the afternoon scanning in photos that belong to Mamaw so that Mom & I could bring them home so that we could have copies.
Our cousin, Bobby Baker came up for Thanksgiving dinner this afternoon and had a wonderful time visiting together. We talked about family, religion and politics all those juicy topics that no one is ever supposed to talk about. But we had a great conversation and all very very civil.He told us that the Christmas lights were being lit this evening in Pennington Gap at Leeman Field. Mom is looking forward to taking pictures of the light displays. As we left out for Leeman field we saw a beautiful crescent moon - no pictures :( Maybe tomorrow night. We walked through the light displays and it was quite a trek. I do believe that we may have just about wore Mamaw out. Mom & I both took oodles of pictures of the displays, but lights are a terribly hard thing to photograph so we didn't get too many keepers, but just enough.
We rounded out the evening with me working on a few photos to post and Mom & Mamaw watching "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". Mamaw has been working on heading to bed for about an hour now - I guess that sleep is going to wait until the movie is over. Hehe..
No comments:
Post a Comment