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Ruby Tuesday: Glass Spiral

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Once again, I express my passion for art glass by Dale Chihuly. For more Red photography, click the new Ruby Tuesday button on the sidebar.

Mosaic Monday: Meet Me in Seattle

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You can't traipse around Seattle without taking at least ONE photo of the Space Needle. For more Mosaic Monday players, click the button on the right.

Sepia Saturday: Lithuanian Immigrants

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Who knows what dreams immigrants carried with them on to ocean-going vessels, ships that spirited them away from the land of their birth, their families, their known world?    Certainly they imagined a better life for themselves and their children, born and not yet in being. What did they bring with them? What were they forced to leave behind? Pranciskus Kremenskas from Lithuania   was a handsome, curly-haired 33 year old  when he brought his pretty 23-year old wife Manki Vaitekunaite Kremenskas to the land of dreams aboard the ship Kroonland. Manki, who became Monica in the U.S.,   was pregnant with their first child. They had the princely sum of $25 in cash when they arrived at Ellis Island. Their destination was East St, Louis, Illinois, specifically 443 Collenwell Avenue. Though the passenger manifest is hard to read, it looks like their "American" contact in Illinois  was a member of Manki's family.  It also appears that a brother or cousin  of Pranciskus (Fran

Photo Friday Challenge: Arranged

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 Murrelets Flying in Formation They skim  through the air just above the water, beaks pointing east toward first light, arranged just so, a leader, his three or four loyal lieutenants jockeying for position and the rest  of the murrelet troops arrayed behind,  a surprisingly silent procession. "Rossano's Mirrored Murrelets"  - photo © 2009 Meri Arnett-Kremian. All rights reserved. In the pastel light, the still pool reveals a parallel flight, submerged, bellies exposed, floating in perfect formation upside-down, a dark ribbon joining each one to his double like a bloodless umbilical cord.      

Thursday Challenge: Rest

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Sunday morning. Resting quietly, supported by the fertile earth, back tickled by fingers of grass, clouds providing cinematic entertainment. Quiet worship. For more responses to Thursday Challenge, Click HERE . 

Lens Day Wednesday: Rock

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I found a new-to-me Meme for Wednesday. The assignment: a photo The topic: rock  I can do that! ( the last one is just a tiny bit of a great big rock  by the name of Haystack Rock)

Sepia Saturday: Isaac and Sarah

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I don't think I've properly introduced you to Isaac Lile and Sarah Caroline Ellis Lile, at least not officially. I've given mention to Sarah, I think, when I told you the story of her brother Ellis Ellis. But Isaac and Sarah deserve to have their story told. Where shall I begin? Issac, twin to Jacob, was born December 23, 1836 to John Lyle and his wife Catheren Fry in Pennsylvania. His father died when he was not quite nine and his mother was forced to place several of her ten surviving children with neighbors or relatives. Issac lived with John and Sarah Kunkle in 1850. I've often wondered if Sarah might have been a sister to Catheren, but Pennsylvania records are spotty and I can't assign Sarah to parents, let alone figure out the family structure. John Kunkle was a farmer, but somewhere along the line, Isaac learned to make shoes and boots.   Catheren remarried in 1847 and had two more children, a son born in 1848 in Pennsylvania and a daughter born in 1849 i

Photo Friday Challenge: The Family

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Photo Friday 's assignment this week was The Family.    These folks came to mind.

Mosaic Monday: Faces

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He had a face like a blessing. -  Miguel de Cervantes Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. - Mother Teresa Be a blessing. Give the gift of your smile. For lots of reasons to smile, visit Mary at  Dear Little Red House and see all the Monday Mosaics.