The dawn is breakin’, it’s early morn
The MOMSTER is waiting…(fortunately NOT blowin’ it’s horn)
Now the time has come to leave you…
And so, off into the snow yesterday goes the MOMSTER with MFO at the controls. She’s on her way to Wisconsin (via St. Louis) for the annual spring (?) visit to Mom’s in Onalaska. Never mind the snow, just leave the Feeder with apprehension and put the pedal to the metal and off you go…
So, that left the Feeder alone in the snow of late March. But, ever alert for creative photography opportunities, I grabbed the Canon feeling good about myself and set about finding snow shots figuring I’d be able to get some unique images. Well, if any of you check FaceBook or the ilk, you’ll see that damn near everybody who owns a camera had the same thought and the news feeds are full of shots of snow and flowers. Ah well, just to massage my ego some, here’s some of my offerings…(which will NOT appear on my facebook – mostly because I have no clue on how to get them there)
Fun to do, a nice opportunity. You have to be aware of the gifts from Mother Nature…
Maryland Day
The day before MFO’s departure was Maryland Day and we spent a lot of time at Historic St. Mary’s City helping with the festivities. Fortunately our tasks involved ushering people to seats and giving them a program in a warmed tent. Those of you who have experienced the day in previous years know that it’s pretty much known for bad weather. Yesterday by comparison was quite nice, although there was a pretty stiff breeze if you stayed outside. The usual set of luminaries participated in the program, with remarks from Steny Hoyer who always is fun to listen to (regardless of your political opinions), John McCallister who is Chair of the Historic St. Mary’s City Commission (responsible for caring for the City at a State level), and other notables. Although not on the scheduled program, Jack Russell president of the BOC for the county said a “few” words. These are all nice local things that make you like to live here.
Anyway, part of the program was to award the Cross Bottony Award, the highest award given by the City to somebody who’s efforts resulted in outstanding contributions to the City. Sometimes, they are ceremonial in nature, but this year it went to Pete Himmelheber, who is one of the tour guides for the City. Nobody could be more deserving of this honor than Pete. Anybody who has led over 600 tours of groups of 4th graders deserves any award that can be given. I’m sure there will be further awards in heaven someday. Besides his tour guide duties, Pete is also one of the so-called ChapVols, a little group of 5 folks (including yours truly) who have spent several years interpreting the Brick Chapel of 1667 during its reconstruction to Museum visitors on the weekends. Alternatively freezing or sweating, we man (and woman) the Chapel answering any question that people have… how long, how much, why is, when did, who was, where are the bathrooms (see that bush?....)all that stuff. During the years of doing this we have developed a pretty good grasp on the Chapel’s history and reconstruction. Part of the ceremonies yesterday involved the “opening” of the new (so-called) Pavillion, which now contains several signboards for people to read. Of course, they can’t replace the brilliant repartee of the Vols, but they are there 24/7 which the Vols are not. Check it out. Anyway, Pete is a very deserving recipient of the award.
(that's a cake, not the award...)
So, that was our weekend pretty much, I hope you had a chance to get out and do something, and enjoyed the brief snow. key word brief
And you’ll notice I didn’t say one thing about the NCAA’s…
With MFO gone, it might be a little struggle to
DFD
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