The Weekend Roundup 'N'

It is a Saturday in the Spring, and time again for a favored meme, The Weekend Roundup. The letter prompt this week offers many a possibility...

Begins with 'N' starts with New York City. These first photos are from the 1957 Easter Parade in the borough of Manhattan. My grandmother and Aunt Terry had stylish Easter Hats, my aunt's looking like a 1950s flying saucer!

Next is homemade black bean chili Nachos we made. They were good, but Tex-Mex restaurant nachos are prettier (if not tastier :)

Favorite. The always lovely Patti was inside the Derby (CT) United Methodist Church the other day. As   sunset arrived, the glow from the stained glass windows was beautiful. And in the second window, the Easter story is told. This church was opened in 1894, and as we have guessed - they don't really build them like they used to. Thanks for the prompts Tom!

The Weekend Roundup 'F'

Tom hosts the fun meme The Weekend Roundup, and I am ready with a few blasts from the past to take cars of this week's favorite letter at least :)

Begins with 'F' starts with Family, this being the Villers family of East Hartford, CT. This I believe to be Eater Sunday 1969 with all seven children. (one more since 1964 and last week's post there were only six). Note the late '60s hair and with my gold blazer and turtleneck...where's the chain?

Then there is a Field where I stand in 1983. Guess where the field is? It is in Fargo North Dakota!

Another 'F' is Flat. The day was July 30, 1983, the place is the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, the flat are the two tires on the starboard side of a United Airlines 737 from Chicago. The flat occurred upon landing at MSP. I captured this as we awaited the bus...It just felt like a flat tire on your vehicle  

Finally there is Ford, this being another view of my Ford E-150 van that I had from 1998-2010. It was a great vehicle but really big and used a lot of gas. I donated it with 158,000 miles (254,000 km). It had at least another 100K miles of life in it, a very durable vehicle indeed...

Flower. Here is a flower (weed) growing through a rock. quite a feat I'd say! This is at the Savin Rock by Long island Sound in West Haven, CT.

Favorite. The always lovely Patti captured tis Blue Jay taking off from the roof. 'I'm outta here' he seems to say! Have a great week!

Friday Hunt, 2017.1.13

It is a rainy, windy and cold Friday in Southern New England - so safely ensconced inside, it is time for this week's edition of Teresa' fun photo meme Friday Hunt. Following are my look at this week's clues...

Starts with 'M'. There is Maryland, the seventh state of the Union and also, curiously, the Mason-Dixon Line which is a demarcation between Maryland and Pennsylvania and Delaware. This was taken along US-1 in August 2000 on a family vacation. Note that our destination was Lancaster PA, but wanting the kids enter a few more states, we took a more circuitous route that included Delaware and Maryland - too bad we couldn't include these additional states in their passports...

Week's Favorite. Patti and our daughter Allegra attended an Easter egg decorating class. This is a nice example of a well-designed egg and the candle that melted the beeswax.

Water. This is the small Saybrook Breakwater Lighth that lies at the confluence of the Connecticut River and Long Island Sound at Old Saybrook, CT. Lots of briny seawater here. Thanks Teresa!