Preserving Alabama Life on Film

Selma author, storyteller, journalist and photographer Kathryn Tucker Windham 

knew that taking pictures is about much more than good light and a sharp image. 

This  poster relates how she got a free Brownie camera at age 12 and later

 saw the need to preserve Alabama culture through film. The poster

 is part of many exhibits at the Kathryn Tucker Windham Museum in Thomasville. 

Today's digital photography allows many more people to easily and inexpensively 

preserve memories...if only they will download those photos and make prints! 

Linking to Signs, Signs and City Daily Photo Blogs

X is for eXceptional

Mrs. Mary E. McVoy must have been an eXceptional teacher

 to have been honored with a plaque such as this! 

Anyone remember water fountains like this?

Linking to ABC Wednesday's X Week and City Daily Photo Blogs

Zinnias Love Summer

If ever a flower loved summer's really hot weather, it's the zinnia! 

Linking to Monday Mellow Yellows and City Daily Photo Blogs

Old Bottles

So I love these old bottles (some from Selma)

 that are on display at Side Porch Sandwiches. 

Linking to City Daily Photo Blogs

First Day of Summer

It's the first day of summer, and watermelons are ripe!

This one was cut last week at the Selma Art Camp for a refreshing snack.

Linking to City Daily Photo Blogs

The Courtyard Wall

W is for WALL, and the courtyard wall at our local library features brick

 by Henry Brick, and a brick plaque honors its employees from 1945 through 1995. 

Linking to ABC Wednesday and City Daily Photo Blogs

Heart Gallery Alabama

"There are no unwanted children, only unfound families,"

 according to Heart Gallery Alabama's display at the Selma-Dallas County Library. 

Heart Gallery's mission is to help find families for our state's children

 who are in foster care.

Linking to City Daily Photo Blogs and Our World Tuesday

Under the Sea at the Library

Selma may be 200 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, but sea creatures swim

 in this saltwater aquarium in the children's department of  our libary.

 Fascinating!

Linking to Monday Mellow Yellows and City Daily Photo Blogs

I Love Dad, Yea!

It's Father's Day, and here is just one of dozens of  tie cards that children

 made by hand at the Selma-Dallas County Library on Friday. 

They glued, colored and wrote sentimental greetings on their cards. 

I love Dad, Yea!

Linking to City Daily Photo Blogs

The Courtyard View

From upstairs in the library, there is a lovely view of the courtyard below.

Linking to Weekly Top Shot and City Daily Photo Blogs

Under Purple Blossoms

Even on a damp day, this spot on the terrace behind

 the St. James Hotel is mighty inviting!

Linking to Friday Fences and City Daily Photo Blogs

Signs, Signs (Imagination Summer)

June and July bring "Imagination Summer" to the Selma-Dallas County Public Library,

 and it all began this week with a magic show. There is something for children

 everyday, and that includes a petting zoo on the library lawn this morning

 and Father's Day crafts on Friday. Tuesdays are puppet show days,

 and Wednesdays are reserved for Open House Art. Events in July will include 

a reptile show, McWane Science Center "Diggin' Dinos,"

 pasta art and balloon magic. 

The schedule is available at the library's front desk or by clicking this link. 

Linking to Signs, Signs and City Daily Photo Blogs

The Perfect Perch

We're posting the letter V over at ABC Wednesday, and this might

 be a weather VANE atop Dallas Academy, or it might be 

the perfect VENUE  for a pigeon perch!

Linking to ABC Wednesday and City Daily Photo Blogs

Charlie's Artists

It's Art Camp Week at the old Dallas Academy, and campers get to create

 3-D works under the direction of famous folk artist Charlie Lucas.

 Using a variety of  trash and trinkets that vary from sections of garden hose, 

old wooden forks, beads, keys and wire, these young artists got out

 the glue guns and went to work. Campers rotated among art stations 

and also made jump ropes, painted ceramics, decorated old cigar boxes

 and had pictures made in costumes on Monday.  

Linking to Our World Tuesday and City Daily Photo Blogs

Protector

Coyotes, beware! Our daddy is here!

Linking to City Daily Photo Blogs

The Spires of First Baptist

The Gothic spires and gargoyles of First Baptist Church - Lauderdale Street 

are especially beautiful in the late afternoon sun. 

Linking to InSpired Sunday and City Daily Photo Blogs 

Queen Anne's Lace

The Queen Anne's Lace has been especially abundant 

and beautiful along the roadsides his year!

Linking to Weekly Top Shot

and City Daily Photo Blogs

Highway Through the Black Belt

From this side of the barbed-wire fence and behind the tall roadside grass,

 you can see the traffic along U.S. Highway 80 through Alabama's Black Belt

 in west Dallas County. This four-lane road is MUCH less traveled

 and a lot easier to drive than an interstate.

Linking to Friday Fences, Skywatch Friday and City Daily Photo Blogs

The First

I love the signs that Kay Sasser Jacoby brought to StreetFest.

Linking to Signs, Signs and City Daily Photo Blogs

Once UPON a Time

Once UPON a time, there was a pretty little red-haired girl with curls

 and a pink bow and purple face paint!

 She was enjoying her day at StreetFest!

Linking to ABC Wednesday (the letter U) and City Daily Photo Blogs

Jeanann's Wonderful Quilts of Color

If you have fabric scraps, Jeanann can use them!

Jeanann Syzmanski designs and makes these colorful quilts from scraps

 sent to her by friends from many places. This display was part of her booth

 at last weekend's World's Widest Yard Sale. 

Linking to Our World Tuesday and City Daily Photo Blogs

Quilted Cats

So what did I find at the World's Widest Yard Sale?

Lots...but I bought that cute, quilted cat potholder on the right.

 Many sellers set up booths beneath the pine trees out at Angie's Auction 

in Potter's Station. I never made it past that place! 

There were so many great bargains.

This year was the second for the yard sale that extends along

 and north and south of U.S. Highway 80 through central Alabama. 

Linking to Monday Mellow Yellows and City Daily Photo Blogs

St. Andrew's Church

This is St. Andrew's Church, one of the most picturesque churches and churchyards

 around. Located  40 miles west of Selma along U.S. Highway 80, it 

is a national historic landmark. Built in 1853 in the Carpenter Gothic Style,

 the design probably came from architect Richard Upjohn's "Rural Architecture."

 The style is similar to St. Luke's Church at Old Cahawba. 

Linking to InSpired Sunday and City Daily Photo Blogs 

June Theme Day, The Beauty of Decay

It's June Theme Day at City Daily Photo Blogs,

 and we are posting pictures of "The Beauty of Decay."

This tarnished cemetery monument of a young child in repose

 is a touching reminder of how fleeting life can be.

Linking to City Daily Photo Blogs and Weekly Top Shot