Edmondston-Alston House porch, Charleston, South Carolina, June 12, 2012
General P. T. Beauregard, Confederate commander who gave the order to fire cannons on Fort Sumter that started the American Civil War, watched the bombardment from the house porch on April 12, 1861.
Dogwood blossoms, April 9, 2010, West-Central Arkansas
Unfortunately, our lovely dogwood tree close to the house sickened and died after blooming in 2015. We suspected that it had been weakened during the drought of 2012 and, subsequently, fell victim to some type of dogwood disease.
Partly cloudy over Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, September 2, 2009
Mule deer, Morefield Campground,
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
September 15, 2009
Skinner’s Saloon through a window in a building across the street,
Bannack, Montana, July 30, 2010.
Skinner’s Saloon – Originally built on Yankee Flats, Cyrus Skinner moved this building to Bannack’s main street in the spring of 1863. It became the popular gathering place for Sherriff Henry Plummer’s gang of road agents. Skinner had left Bannack before the hanging of Plummer, but he was tracked down to a mining camp near present day Missoula and hanged for his purported role as a spy for the Plummer gang. The building was later used for many years as a store.
Bannack, Montana was founded in 1862 after a major gold discovery. It served as the capital of Montana Territory briefly during the civil war. The last residents left in the 1970s.
Sunrise, Black Hawk State Park, Iowa, September 6, 2013
Black Hawk State Park
A couple of musicians on a bench in Hannibal, Missouri,
(Mark Twain’s “home town”)
September 27, 2012
Wire cable in sand on bank of Arkansas River,
below Dardanelle Lock & Dam, May 10, 2005
Mountain Farm Museum, Oconaluftee river valley, near Cherokee, North Carolina,
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, May 6, 2009
