First James Webb Space Telescope Image

 

Link to New Scientist article about the image.

Bobcat pawprint at the farm

 

The pawprint in dried mud in the photo above has the definite pattern of a bobcat. It looked like a big print to me, so I put a nickel on the ground below it for comparison. Doesn't look so big now.

I'm not so sure about the pawprint below, whether it's a bobcat's or maybe a coyote's. I occasionally see a coyote, but have only seen a bobcat at the farm twice in my whole life. 

Tombstone Shadow (with hat)

Apologies to CCR for using their song title in this weird photographic situation. This is my shadow on one of my ancestors' headstones in Bellwood Cemetery in Pine Bluff, taken by me earlier this month. I was at the cemetery to check on repairs done after a tree fell on some of the headstones last year. The angle and intensity of the light in a photograph can have strange and spooky effects...

One of the bookshelves in my dining room

 

Taken today with an old camera, Canon S120, that I was  recently given. The bookshelf is a twin of the one in the other front corner of my dining room, both made for me in 1990 or 1991 by my friend Pat Calkins when I lived in Austin and he stayed with me for a week or so. I bought the dining room table from Rebecca Railsback Phillips about ten years ago. It originally belonged to the Leon Francis family in Pine Bluff.

Dial Singers 1968-69, Dial Jr High Pine Bluff

 

Front row: Margaret Johnson, choir director and music teacher; Judy Trice, Susie Hastings, Margie Hargis, Karen Curtis, Marti Bellingrath, Peggy Bollier, Cindy Wooten, Melissa Fox, Martha Jones, Ann Younger, George Puddephatt.

Seond row: Lane Townsend, Mark Lindsey, Stephanie Calaway, Janice Woodfield, Carol Condray, Sue Russell , Joel Johnson, John Owen, Johnny Pierce, Lee Bellamy, Sherry Noble, Susan Perchan, Katie Priakos, Jane McGeorge, me.

Third row: Bill Bodie, Ricky Smith, David Myers (?), Joe Owen, Mike Galster, Tommy Montgomery, Dennis May, Drew Noble, Ed Taliaferro, Joe Lane, Curt Patton, John Sweatt.

I wasn't actually a Dial Singer, I was the little drummer boy, standing and playing snare drum, pa rumpa pum pum, maybe with a cymbal also. Let me know of any wrong identifications or who the third-from-left blond guy in the back row is. I'm thinking he's David Meyers, but I'm not sure. Also I'm not for sure if it's Lane or Mark Townsend on the far left in the second row, and I may have Joe and John Owen mixed up.

My Trulock grandmother's home: 305 Martin Place

 It was torn down in the late 1960s, and was vacant in the mid-1960s when I went in it several times, exploring, with my friend Trip Martin, who lived on 15th Avenue, about four blocks away. I didn't know at the time that my Trulock grandmother (1900-1972) grew up in this house.  It was built by Ben J. Altheimer in about 1906, but he moved to Chicago to practice law. Sometime after that, my grandmother's father, Leo M. Andrews, bought it.  I found this photo at the Kehilalinks' Pine Bluff website, along with the one below.  You can barely see Paul Perdue's name in the lower right corner. It was originally posted by him on his Pine Bluff Postcards site.  I'm not sure what's happened to that, or to him.

Caption from Kehilalinks: This wonderful old house at 305 Martin was Mrs. Holmes' Boarding House when the photo was taken in the 1960's. And that's lil' Julia Glover standing out front. The house has since been demolished.

Current view of the same location.  Notice the same tree and small brick retaining wall beneath it.  Also the telephone pole. This property, and the rest of the block east to Pine Street, is owned by a middle-aged couple who live in a one-story, white-painted-brick house that's just out of view to the left. They've made this 2/3 of the block into a very attractive and large flower and shrub garden.

This is just to the right (east) of the previous photo. To complete this set, here's another photo, taken on August 8, 2021, of the remaining part of the garden area, to the east of the above photo. I was standing at the corner of Martin Avenue (called Martin Place in the old days) and Pine Street when I took this photo:

June Freeman's 7-10-1965 birthday

 

Gretchen, June, Andy, me, and David Freeman at June's birthday party. Photo most likely taken by Ed Freeman. I was 10 years old, same age as Andy. I guess I was visiting him that day and it happened to be June's birthday. I visited June this past Sunday, July 11, 2021.  She's 93.  Ed recently died.