The Selma Welcome Center is getting a new home in this building on Broad Street right across Selma Avenue from the library.
The center will feature walls with different themes such as civil war, civil rights, museums, architecture, annual events, etc. So, when you come to visit, be sure and stop her first! I'll let you know when it opens. Meanwhile, stop by the library for maps and brochures.
I found this lovely creature out sunning on the concrete yesterday!
It is probably a black rat snake since he played dead, even when turned over. A black racer would have quickly slithered away. He didn't come around until I scooped him up with a hoe, toted him across the backyard and let him go into the woods across the fence. Even then, he just raised his head to see where I was taking him.
By the way, while he is long, he's not nearly as big as he looks in this picture.
To see more Camera Critters, follow this link.
Downtown Selma is getting spruced up before Christmas, and even the municipal fountain needs an occasional cleaning.
View this post to see the fountain in action.
Here's an evening sky from late October, and I don't recall ever seeing one quite like it. The heavens turned rosy-purple all over late one afternoon following a day of rain. It occurred just as the sky was clearing, and the sun was barely visible just before it set.
I took this picture on automatic, and it is unedited.
For more Skywatch photos, go to www.skyley.blogspot.com.
"Now, our God, we give You thanks, and praise Your glorious name."
1 Chronicles 29:13
Today is Thanksgiving in the USA, and we traditionally spend the day with family, giving thanks to God for our many blessings. It's a time celebrated with feasts and reflection and remembering the First Thanksgiving in 1621 when Pilgrims (English colonists) and Indians (Native Americans of the Wampanoag people) broke bread together in Plymouth Colony. The photo above is the dessert table at the after-rehearsal dinner for my son and his bride, who were married last weekend. We had pumpkin-shaped pound cakes iced with caramel and topped with real pumpkin stems, along with pumpkin pies. The cakes and pies were baked by my sister-in-law.
As store windows transformed from Thanksgiving to Christmas this morning, I found one last harvest decoration downtown at Southland Chemical. The day after Thanksgiving is billed as the biggest shopping day of the year in the U.S.A.
I think artists are getting more and more creative with pottery. These brightly painted pieces were for sale at a recent arts and crafts show. Which piece do you like best?
Fall doesn't get serious in Central Alabama until mid-November, but when it does, it brings spots of brilliant color just in time for Thanksgiving.
Here's my official autumn photo of the backyard for 2009. We are really pleased that the ginkgo tree has held its golden leaves for several days now. Usually, the leaves fall as soon as the color peaks.
Ever play with modeling clay when you were a child? Kids who attended the Kenan's Mill festival got to work with native Alabama clay. The festival is held annually the first Saturday in November. Photo by Jacque Johnson
Ahhh, what golden splendor!
This isn't my ginkgo tree but one captured on camera by guest photographer Christine Weerts.
