November 22, 2006

• Happy Thanksgiving Xanga

  
  

  I hope all is well with all of my Xanga friends and acquaintance and that each of you are filled with the spirit of Thanksgiving.  This is the beginning of the Christmas season for John and myself and I hope to spend it quietly.  We do have plans to spend some of the season with our daughter.  I hope all of you are with someone you love.

  
  

  A few Thanksgiving links I found of interest:

  
  

  A short fun read and interesting …
  http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/1101web/essay.html

  
  

  An interesting site located in Dallas, Texas, USA their motto “gratitude is our attitude” :  http://www.thanksgiving.org/
  Follow their links for some interesting reading. 

  
  

  This is fun and educational.  Test your Thanksgiving knowledge. 
  I wasn’t as knowledgable as I thought I was.
  Try this link http://electricartists.liquidbuilder.com/desperate_crossing/  and if it doesn’t work
  Follow this one
  http://www.history.com/minisites/thanksgiving/
  then follow the link for Desperate Crossing and click on “play the game”

  
  

   

  
  

  A Poem: 

  
  

  Thanksgiving 2006
  © RSBlain

  
  

  All life progresses shorter
  Its ups reversing down …
  The greatest hill grinds flat to dust
  As waters rise and spill.
  And studied, all experience
  Becomes solidified
  As pages in our History books,
  Some great and glorified
  And some as hard and bitter pills
  Their fillers, moans and cries.

  
  

  Thanksgiving voiced by any man
  At any time in any land
  Speaks to and of a greater power
  Who provides in any hour
  A means to pray in each man’s way
  For what he has, not what he’s lost.

  
  

  Every man has lost and gained
  If nothing but the breath he took
  Before the pages of his book, were closed.
  It is for each to realize
  What provisions measured out, are his.
   
  No religious right can claim
  What is held, as the heart, of Thanksgiving.
  It is, for the good implied, within.

  
  

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  A few photos I took in September while visiting my sister Bunny in Rockford, Illinois.  Symbolreader and I spent visiting time at one of the parks where some of these were taken. 

  
  

  

  
  

  On our drive to Rockford I saw my first visual of tornadoes on the ground. 
  Here, taken from inside our car, a double funnel we saw from the expressway. 
  I have been as close as a block away from too many tornados. 
  I never saw any until this trip. 
  As far away as we were, it was too close for comfort.

  
  

  

  
  

  You can’t safely drink from anything outdoors.  Here a yellow jacket landed on my drink cup, while I am holding it, to drink from my straw.  One of the worst things you can do is swallow a yellow jacket live.  A pretty fair picture but not the easiest to get. 
  Close ups are shaky and most I took of this fellow weren’t any good.

  
  

  

  
  

  While Symbolreader and I visited, the fish were biting. 
  Or, maybe throwing in a line not expecting fish is fun.

  
  

  

  
  

  This lovely little stand of rock and growth
  marks the spot a lot of fishermen stand to throw in a line.

  
  

  

  
  

  A precarious but picturesque ladder of steps down to the flooded river. 
  This is a different park Bunny and I stopped at.

  
  

  

  
  

  I love to take train photos. 
  This trestle with train and river and men fishing made me feel I had hit the jackpot.
  A wonderful city view adds even more to the photo.

  
  

  That’s it and I hope everyone who may be reading has/had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

  
  

  Becca

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