Rough Neighborhood

I encountered these rough characters on Holloween. The guys dressed up for the Fall Festival at McElwain Baptist Church here in Birmingham.

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday to Hallie James Carroll, born today to proud parents, Chris and Kitty, and proud grandparents and uncles and great-grandparents.

7 lbs. 3 oz.
20" tall (long)

She has already brought a lot of joy to many people.

Brotherly Love

Only brothers can have this much disrespect and it still comes off as love.

Seasonal Spook - Scott's Pumpkin Carving

Scott used his artistic talent to create this pumpkin spook. It starts to feel like autumn when the temperature drops and you see these things in the yard along with some fallen leaves.

Postcard from 1918

This is a postcard from my grandmother to her sister she sent in 1918. My grandfather probably developed this photo onto a postcard. He did his own developing in those days. My great-grandfather, Charles Nahrung, is the man on the right and the man on the left is my grandfather, Ernst Sieder. The woman standing in the center is my grandmother, Esther Nahrung Sieder. I believe my aunt is in the photo somewhere, but my father was not born until 1921.

Thanks to Lila Engelhardt for this image. Her husband, Kenneth,is the grandson of my grandmother's sister Minna "Minnie" Nahrung Engelhardt.

Note the address on the post card is name, city and state. There is no address and no zip code and it got there in those days.

If You Are On Your Back - Look Up

Some things get missed in our normal routine, but sometimes God allows us to get put on our back so we can look up and see something we would have otherwise missed. In this case the boys were tired and stopped to rest on a hill. They spotted a spider web high up in the trees that they would not have noticed if they were just walking through.