Last May POTD!

 An alligator and people in a canoe. 

Psalm 27

 

Duck Buddies

 These ducks hang out in the parking lot at my nearby grocery store. So cute! 

St James Church

The Market Street side. My Mommy’s name is on the wall in the Memory Garden and some of her ashes buried there. Same with my Uncle Marty. Soon my Aunt Margaret’s name and remains will join them. She lived to be 98! Pretty amazing. 

Longfellow. A Treasure of a Book

 

This book, over a century old, belonged to my mother and has some of her early penmanship in it. She and my grandmother knew by heart several of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poems and and quoted them often. Here is a tender one. 

                            It Is Not Always May

In a Backyard

 

Fly your banners high

 

Full moon evening at CB

 

Pole Beans

After several days of fun when photo ops were plenty, today is a day of staying in. What to do for my POTD? 

On Saturday, my friend and I had stopped at a really good farmers market, and I spotted some pole beans, something I thought were no longer available. And here they were! They were a Southern favorite in the summer, broader and  better than green beans. I bought only a few, since there is only me to feed. They have been in the ref since Saturday, but I cooked them tonight. A taste from the past and so good. 

Headed Home

 

In Raleigh Tonight

 Moon over the building where I had a delicious supper. And Betsy’s rosé, pretty with the other colors in the room.

Strawberries

 Purchased yesterday in the country. They taste real! So delicious. 

Front room in Event/B&B house visited on Saturday in small town NC

 

Blackbird. Grackle.

 

Art Today

The group of abstract women artists are here for the second year. It is thrilling for me! I arrived at the AW today, lucky me, when they were starting a 40” square piece on which each of the twelve artists painted. Therefore . . .  I took videos of practically the whole process. Took about 12 minutes. The top one is the completed one they all painted on that will be donated. The bottom one is how the room was set up, etc. 

Beautiful Ft Fisher

 

POTD Gull

 

So many delicious little restaurants here

 

Trees in my yard

Magnolia and Bald Cypress. So Wilmington.

This guy has the coolest plants

 At a market today.

From a downtown roof at sunset

 

Family History

 Following up on yesterday’s event:

This is the still standing house in old downtown Wilmington that my great-grandfather was brought to when he was shot that August evening in 1865. He did not die on the spot, but, like Lincoln and Van Gogh, was taken to a residence and died the next day. The house was owned by his father-in-law who took care of the family while Thomas was called to serve in the Civil War. A few months after his death, his wife Mary gave birth to my great grandmother Ida with the middle name of Thomas. Sadly Mary died soon after, “grieved herself to death,” per my grandmother’s family lore. 

While we (I) often criticize the current medical profession for over-reach and under-knowledge, both of these young people would have been treated and saved today, from a bullet wound and severe reactive depression. 

End of Watch Ceremony

Every May the police department here honors the ones who have died in the line of duty. My great great grandfather is at the top of the list, the first to be recognized as his killing took place in 1865. A young man with one child and a pregnant wife, murdered as he was getting off duty, shortly after he came home from the Civil War, when angry men were roaming the streets. Occasionally that happens to law enforcement officers today. But here we are over 150 years later, his descendants, honoring his life. This is my cousin and me at the ceremony. 

Pretty Church Building

I drive a certain way every Tuesday afternoon and am still seeing see new places, like this lovely church. Episcopal churches are always architecturally interesting, a quality missing from new buildings today. This one has a fairy tale quality or looks like it could be in an old European village. But it is right here in Wilmington! Photo from car window.

A Special Bridge

 This was featured multiple times in a TV drama filmed in Wilmington. Can’t remember the name of it!

With pizza, anything goes

Friends gave me a yellow pepper, fresh oregano, and fresh chives, and I was inspired to use them on a pizza. I made the dough for the crust, mixed those topping ingredients along with sun dried tomatoes and a little smoked Gouda, sprinkled them on the smear of basil pesto on the dough, et voila. Lunch. Here it is assembled and ready to go in oven. 

Lowe’s

 My pledge to myself to post a daily picture in May, comes with a story today. After church, I went to Lowe’s to look for paint. Usually I dread going in there. It seems overwhelmingly big and confusing. and I try to find someone in a red vest to ask where in such and such, so I can get in and get out. But today was different. Some happy shoppers were getting plants and garden stuff, but most interesting were the many dogs that were brought it. One was a gorgeous blonde golden retriever type. I would have taken her home! Also two French bulldogs, a black one being pushed in a cart, and a light one on a leash. Some mixed breeds and others, and this little fella, a teacup yorkie.  So tiny! I asked if I could take a picture. When I commented to the employee about the dogs, he said they are an animal friendly place. Once a toucan came in on a man’s shoulder, and another time someone brought in a kangaroo! 

R/T Cookies

 My POTD is a wall in a friend’s house that is adorned with cookie cutters, molds, kitchen tools, etc. The look was much cuter (and wider) than this quick photo reflects. 

Downtown today

Gailllardia

 Blanketflowers grow well in Wilmington and by the beach.

Voluntary Viola

 It’s May again! Time for a photo a day. Why not begin with May flowers.