Beautiful Lights in Etown

Now playing:The Judds - Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
via FoxyTunes Sunday evening we took my mom to Elizabethtown to see the light display at Freeman Lake Park. It was a nice treat after having a tense Christmas Day with the family. I took a few pictures of some of the displays. They are not as clear as I would like as I took them form a moving car, for the most part. The drive is over a mile long and I only have a few photos. If you live in the area and have time before the end of the year, it is worth a short drive to see. There are no fees, only a donation box at the end of the route. It is well worth a small donation, IMHO.
...My mother is blind and could only see parts of the displays. She can see colors and shapes but not definition. I plan to show the photos to her on the computer so she can get a closer look at them. We spent most of Christmas day showing her a collection of family photos on a large computer screen. I have gathered the collection from my cousins' facebook pages and web sites. She helped me identify some of the folks I did not know in the photos.

29TH ANNIVERSARY

....Sunday, 12/21/08 was our anniversary and we took a drive through Scott County, KY to view the Buffalo Gals Barn Quilt Trail. We stopped in Shelbyville to have lunch at the Claudia Sanders Inn, the restaurant of the wife of Cournal Harlan Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame. The food is a wonderful spread of homestyle, country cooking.
...We saw maybe half of barn quilts as we left too late in the day to complete the entire trail. It is about a 1 hour drive from Louisville so we hope to do it again before long and see the rest of them. I took photos of some of the quilts but the weather was terrible and they did not come out well. The skies were overcast and the temperature was in the teens with a 20 mph wind chill around -2*, so getting out of the van to take photos was avoided as much as possible and trying to steady myself in the wind was completely impossible. I should have taken a tripod but I forgot it. Oh well... next time!

DECEMBER

...December has come so quickly. I am not ready. This probably is the hardest time of year for a myriad of reasons. I have not been posting this month but I have been adding a zillion photos to my facebook page. (You will have to join facebook to view them.) My aunt and uncle celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last weekend and we traveled to attend their surprise party. It was a surprise and it was good to see all of the family I have not seen in over a year. I sometimes hate living so far away.
....I am listening to a cd collection of American Folk Christmas songs that most would not recognize because they are not the usual carols that most poeple I know would know and sings every year. The artists are Mike and Peggy Seeger and some others that I do not know their names. The cd is titled "American Folk Songs for Christmas"and is available from Rhapsody and other sites. You can listen to them from the website for free for a limited time. Some might not like the folk grammer but to change it would ruin it. The songs are true to the areas from which they came. I am learning some of them to play on dulcimer.

....The photos are of barn quilts that I snapped last weekend while driving through Carter Caves and Greenbo Lake State Parks last weekend. We rented a cabin at Carter Caves. Their cabins are very nice and I would love to get a group together and spend a weekend there! It would be great for a retreat for an organization, complete with a handicapped accessable cabin.

CRAZY QUILT

Courthouse Steps block

outside of the Carter County courthouse, Grayson, KY

Pinwheel/star pattern

schoolhouse square

The Jesse Stuart Lodge at Greenbo Lake St. Park

Old Town Bridge in Greenup Co. KY

Wildlife in the park