Mourning Doves Evening Meal

At the neighbor’s feeder. They enjoy the seeds.

Their fluttering and cooing sounds remind me of staying at my grandmother’s when I was young. Mouthing doves have such a distinctive call. “The male’s signature “coo-OO-oo-oo” call sounds sorrowful and melancholic to human ears.”

Ten Things you might not know about mourning doves

September 3, 1912

The day Marian Van Sickle was born in Durand, Illinois.

My eldest son Mark told me on his last visit home that we’re all just a generation or two away from being forgotten. I’ve been thinking about that fact and wanted to remember my Mother on the anniversary of her birth.

John, Robert and Marian
I still have her doll Maybelle

The teacher in a one room school house
August 28, 1939
1942
1974
1984

Our mother had her 88th birthday in a Rockford Illinois hospital and passed away 6 days later on September 9, 2000.

Framed

East Liberty Presbyterian Church

We were returning to the car after a visit to the East Liberty library.

“The architect who designed the current structure was Ralph Adams Cram, of Cram and Ferguson in Boston. Cram also designed Calvary Episcopal Church (1906) in neighboring Shadyside and Princeton University’s Chapel. When Cram was hired by the Mellons to build the current East Liberty Presbyterian Church building, he was given absolute freedom to build the finest and most beautiful church to the glory of God that he could create.”

Past blog posts mentioning East Liberty Presbyterian Church are tagged here

Early Signs

Autumn is coming. This leaf is farther along

I think fall is my favorite season. If only the winter weren’t so long and gray.

Unknown Subjects

I’m always photographing people I know but every once in awhile I capture an unknown (to me) person. Anonymous

At Kennywood
At the Frick Pittsburgh
At the National Aviary
At the Convention Center

Silent Sunday

Patience Test

Untangling some leftover sock yarn a friend sent from all the pairs of socks she knit. There was just a bit of it tangled in a bag. The rest was ready to knit. I’m knitting a scrappy striped sock blanket. Terry has generously shared her sock yarn with me. Treasure!

Progress
Ready to knit

What I’ve knit so far

Spotted by my Grandson (2 1/2) so I Photographed it

Look he said A rainbow! We were at a Toy Lending Library Play place in a church basement.

The windows were covered in translucent contact paper so the rainbow is muted.

I’ve had this sock yarn for maybe seven years

Beehive Yarns

Wordless Wednesday