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We flew back from Oklahoma to Denver via 
This is taken from one of the lighthouses 
And here's another reason why:
Clark Gable nearly walked off the set of "Gone With the Wind" because of racism, the New York Post's Page Six reports and an upcoming book reveals. In "Victor Fleming," a bio of the director of the beloved Hollywood epic, Michael Sragow describes how a group of black extras, upset at studio bathrooms with "White" and "Colored" signs, approached Gable.
He got on the phone to (Victor) Fleming, who called the prop master and told him, 'If you don't get those signs down, you won't get your Rhett Butler,' " writes Sragow. "The Signs came down immediately."
A Man of Principle.
Last year our county had 160 cases of West Nile virus. This year - none reported. They did an aerial spraying and I guess it worked, thank goodness!
One summer, while the kids were at church camp, hubman and I sneaked off for a few days. We
camped up at Twin Lakes, which is close to Bridgeport - or 90 miles north of Mammoth. We decided to go fishing in the Bridgeport dam spillway, where large trout were rumored to hang out. Casting your line into the fast-moving water and then keeping it out of the rocks was very tiring, so I sat down on some rocks. Boy, did I ever regret that move! I must've had 25-30 humongous bites on my butt and upper thighs. I itched my way all through Yosemite! It is SO hard to have those kinds of bites on your rear end and be in the public eye! And once you scratch, you know what happens...you can't stop scratching!
In looking for a photo to represent family, I couldn't find one that I had taken recently. So, my eyes landed on this photo of a church steeple. I took this picture in August in Oklahoma City. It's right across the street from the Oklahoma Memorial of the bombing. I realize that the church is tilted and not a really great shot but perhaps that's the deeper meaning. I have a church family and we're not perfect either!
Church gives me a sense of family, community and hope. I can enter any church in the world and feel the presence of family. Blogging has given me a sense of family. You make wonderful friends and know that people actually care about one another! And that's FAMILY...
With all the bad stuff in the news, I found a couple that should provoke laughter and not
tears!
San Diego: "A lit candle in a voodoo supply shop sparked a fire, destroying the San Diego Store."
Yep, gotta watch those zombies. You turn your back on 'em and they're burning your store
down...
"A San Diego man who was allegedly poaching lobsters was caught with six of the creatures
stuffed down his pants. Lobsters in the San Diego area do not have pincers."
Now, the last sentence cracked me up. You know what we were all thinking!
This photo isn't new but seeing it again reminded me of sitting on the balcony, sipping
a cold drink, just being lazy...
After a long day running around the island, taking in all of the sights, sounds and smells,
it was nice to just sit a spell and commit it all to memory.
Since I don't live in a part of the country that has a lot of glorious fall colors, I thought I'd share my favorite leaf - a Canna. This is the leaf of a Tropicana, just one of the varieties of Canna.
I looked through all of my photos and I cannot find any that are of a sad event or person. So I stepped back and chose a photo that makes ME sad. This is a picture of my son-in-law (more like my own son) at Thanksgiving. He was dead by April. We were at my oldest daughter's home and everyone had a fantastic time. None of us ever imagined that we'd have to go on without him...
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Most of these pictures are from my trip back to Oklahoma this August.
1. Meeting my great-granddaughter for the very first time
2. What a smile!
3. Daughter #1's new house
4. A hole in the Oklahoma sky
5. The Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum - the reflecting pool You can see that this is built right where the actual Murrah Plaza stood. The pool occupies what was once N.W. Fifth Street.
6. There are 168 empty chairs, the smaller chairs representing the 19 children killed.
7. Gates of Time: "These momumental twin gates fram the moment of destructoin - 9:02 a.m. - and mark the formal entrances to the Memorial. The East Gate represents 9:01 a.m. on April 19, and the innocence of the city before the attack. The West Gate represents 9:-3 a.m., the moment we were changed forever, and the hope that came fro the horror in the moments and days following the bombing." ---taken from the Memorial & Museum Guide I was taken by the light and shadows skillfully represented by the artist.
8. Another view of the gate.
9. A beautiful old church right across the street from the memorial.
10. From somber to nightlife...This is "Bricktown," a wonderful collage of old brick buildings and new, upscale restaurants and shops.
11. This is daughter #1, my granddaughter, and daughter #2 - before they ate the cake in photo number 12!
12. We had dinner at the Spaghetti Factory and after pasta, it was the battle for cake!
13. This is the wing of the Frontier plane we flew in from OK City to Denver. It reminded me of the classic Twilight Zone episode with William Shatner and the monster on the wing. At least I had a friendly face to look at!
14. This is the sky from the aircraft.
15. This is the sky just Monday night here in town! I hopped in the car and drove up the hill to the southeast of us and took some fantastic pictures.
16. I made this bouquet of some of the last of my summer roses just for you.....
Thanks for letting me throw in a few extras ...
