Thursday, May 29, 2008

Memorial Day #3





Here's a couple of pictures of Laurie putting up the flag. flown at half mast, and tilling the pole garden. She seeded it with a red, white, and blue flower mix. Very patriotic and cool!




5 comments:

JVaughan said...

Being myself legally, now nearly totally, blind, I was pleased with your earlier comment about the DAV, though I myself am not a veteran since my visual loss began at age one.

It obviously goes without saying that this day means much to you in light of the _MOST_-unfortunate loss of your son a few years ago. From what I read about him, he was quite a fine man, and a Christian one at that!

Do you ever visit us here in the Nation's Capital, my Native City?

Hoping that this finds you well,

J. V.

Patrick! said...

Thank you for your tribute to Jeremiah. So you know, I did see your comment on the earlier post. I have never had the opportunity yet to get there. If you get the chance, there is a display outside the offices of Sen. Byron Dorgan of ND. He has easels displaying the ND boys lost in this war. My son's is one of them. Also, Have you read Gingritch's "Rediscovering God in America"? He takes you on a tour of DC and points out all the Christian and biblical references on the various buildings and monuments. I found it facinating and I do want to go there someday.
Thanks!

JVaughan said...

AAs related earlier, I am now close to totally blind, and thus would not be able to see the tribute to which you thoughtfully referred me. Yet I do have special scan-and-read software on this computer (along with the screen reader which is helping me, among other things, to write these comments), and thus, if our Public Library perchance has the book to which you also kindly referred me despite, as you presumably know, this locally being a "lib" city, I should probably seek it out eventually, though my reading this month, if any, might center on a Classical composer who is a favourite of mine and whose birthday anniversary is tomorrow, Sir Edward Elgar! I expect, whether or not you like any of that sort of music, you know his famous _Pomp_ _And_ _Circumstance_ _March_ _No._ _1_, to the Trio of which you presumably marched down the aisle at one or more graduations. Yet he wwrote much other great music, at least in my opinion, and I hope to be playing recordings of it throughout much of the month along with much else, this being a particularly-wide-ranging musical month or more for me!

J. V.

Suzanne Lanoue said...

Glad to see you're posting again! Nice pics and I particularly like the slideshow. I have been looking at pics of you guys because I got a digital frame and was finding pics on my computer and on my site of everyone to put in the frame. It does a slideshow thing...very cool.
I also went to Eliza's blog and got some pics there. I like the one of you slumped on the couch on Thanksgiving Day that says, "My dad's so lame"! LOL!! Well, to be a dad is to be lame, I guess, to your teens.
How is Alex doing? I hope Laurie got my card. Do you have a recent close-up pic of you guys?
Please check out my blog if you can, I updated it a lot recently.

JVaughan said...

So where may I find, and what is the nature of, your daughter's blog?

I think I may check for that book you recommended on a certain well-known Internet buying site.

J. V.