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Thought for the Day

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The true lovers of the world  seem to ride upon carousels of love.                 - Lamar Cole

Sepia Saturday: Faces Without Names

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It always makes me sad when I find old photographs lying in a bin in antique stores. Library of Congress image - LC-DIG-ppmsca-36863 Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs Often there's no provenance. Library of Congress image - LC-DIG-ppmsca-36881 Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs No identification of the beings who once laughed and loved and have long since passed through the veil to the other side. Library of Congress image -  LC-DIG-ppmsca-26935   Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs Sometimes I take them home, wondering how their families could have forgotten them. Library of Congress image - LC-DIG-ppmsca-26950 Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs Sometimes I just wonder Who were they? Library of Congress image - LC-DIG-ppmsca-26993 Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs I understand the Liljenquist Fa

Mosaic Monday: From the Sea

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It’s been a while since I’ve played at Mosaic Monday. Time to indulge.

Paradise Pink

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 I’m convinced that Paradise has a liberal splash of pink every which way I am inspired to look. Postcards from Paradise .

Sepia Saturday: Nellie Grant, White House Bride

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Ellen “Nellie” Wrenshall Grant was the daughter of Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia Dent. Nellie was born on the Fourth of July in 1855 in a place called Wish Ton Wish near St. Louis, Missouri. She was U.S. and Julia Grant’s only daughter ; they also had three sons. Library of Congress - Brady Handy Collection She was a child of privilege. She was 13 when her father was elected President of the United States and the family moved into the White House. Her parents believed Nellie needed a proper education, so they chose Miss Porter’s School in Connecticut. Her father escorted her to Connecticut, because he believed that his wife would be unable to withstand Nellie’s pleas to come home. However, by the time he arrived back in Washington, D.C., she had sent three telegrams expressing her unhappiness and it was her father that relented. He sent an escort to bring her back home. Library of Congress/Brady Handy Collection - LC-BH826- 2313 Because of her family’s