Selma makes a point of honoring our U.S. veterans, especially our local ones. Every year, a ceremony with speeches, ROTC units and local school organizations is held in front of Memorial Stadium amid the veterans' monuments. I took this photo at last year's ceremony during which the Southside High School ROTC served as color guard and presented a flag-folding demonstration.
The middle of the swinging bridge across Valley Creek is a perfect place to snap a photo of the mill and dam, IF you can wait long enough for the bridge to stop swinging!
These Alabama football fans wore their team's colors to the Kenan's Mill Fall Festival on Saturday.
The Southeastern Conference showdown between the University of Alabama and Louisiana State University kicked off just a few hours later, and the Crimson Tide won the SEC West championship with a 24-15 win over the Bengal Tigers. Both teams are ranked in the Bowl Championship Series Top 10, and Bama moved up a notch to No. 2 behind Florida. Alabama and Florida meet in December for the SEC championship game in Atlanta.
In the Deep South, college football is a much bigger sport than professional football.
A wagon filled with hay bales and pulled by an old tractor was a hit at Saturday's Kenan's Mill Fall Festival. Both children and adults climbed in for a trip down the long, gravel road.
Warm temperatures and plenty of sunshine helped bring a large crowd to the annual festival that featured bluegrass music, stone-ground cornmeal and grits, children's games, arts and crafts and pottery demonstrations.
The festival returns next year on the first Saturday in November.
You don't have to cross Valley Creek on the swinging bridge at Kenan's Mill, but it sure gives you a challenge!
The mill and grounds are open today from 9 a.m. til 5 p.m. for the annual fall festival that features fresh-ground cornmeal and grits, bluegrass music, cornbread and chili cookoffs, pottery making, arts and crafts, wagon rides, inflatable games for children, tours of the mill house and much more. The music begins at 11 a.m. at the bandstand.
Oh yes, you can reach the mill by vehicle or by walking across the old iron bridge. The new red barn also offers handicap-accessible restrooms. So, come on!
Autumn leaves are most brilliant in Selma in November. Wish our town was full of sugar maples like this one!
To see more skies, go to www.skyley.blogspot.com.
Photo by Christine Weerts
If you like music, fresh cornmeal, wagon rides and crafts, then come on out to the Kenan's Mill Fall Festival this Saturday, Nov. 7.
The 1860's gristmill will be grinding corn into meal and grits as Valley Creek meanders its way beneath the swinging bridge and over the spillway.
The bluegrass menu features young fiddler Caleb Bryant of Northport and the Hurricane Creek band. Music starts at 11, and there will be food vendors to supply your appetite as well as cornbread and chili cookoffs.
Try your hand at making pottery from Alabama clay, and visit the craft booths. Tour the mill house and charcoal kiln.
It's going to be a beautiful day for an outing, so bring your lawn chairs and enjoy! Gates open at 9 a.m. and close at 5 p.m. Cost is only $5 per car. The mill is located just north of the Selma city limits off County Road 37 (Summerfield Road).
Little Bo Peep was surprised to find a sheep at Elkdale Baptist's Fall Festival last weekend!
As she was sharing the Bible story about the lost sheep, this little lamb arrived, so of course, I got their picture together! Photo by Janet Gresham
If trick or treaters wanted candy at this residence on Church Street, they had to brave the weirdo in the camo!
Now, I wonder if the monster had to brave the trick or treaters! When my children were small, one of them dressed as a robot and carried a toy robot claw. When we stopped at a neighbor's house, a "ghoul" was sitting in the yard holding the candy bag, and before I knew it, my little robot walked up and hit him over the head with the claw to see if he was real! He was, and I believe that ended his ghoulish game!
Photo by Jacque Johnson
Spiderman and a little pirate were among the children who came to Elkdale Baptist Church for a "Trunk or Treat" event on Saturday. Church members decorate their vehicle trunks and give out candy that has been donated by the congregation. Participants were also treated to party inflatable games and food. (Click the photo to see a larger version.)
To view the festival slide show, click HERE.
Photo by Janet Gresham
