During our trip to Santa Fe this Spring we managed to get to the Oklahoma State House for a visit. They proved to be the most stringent of all the state houses we have visited about taking pictures but I … Continue reading Oklahoma State House Art…
If you are a “wise” guy you can look back on your life to see where you have been and to learn lessons from past successes and especially the mistakes. This is one of those posts. I don’t think I am your typical senior citizen if someone like that even exists. I have been kind of a misfit at many times in my life. For one thing I am a pretty liberal guy where most “old people” I come across these days seem to be of a very conservative slant. As kids we are always asking “why”, why this, why that. Most of … Continue reading I Am A Rock, I Am An Island…
I lived in New Jersey for four years and visited there for thirty before that so diners were very familiar to me. When we lived there they became a regular eat-out place. We make an annual trek to a town near Indy to buy our Spring flowers and discovered this “new” diner near there. It is nice to see that the old is new again. Continue reading Ode to the Diner
The annual antique tractor show was this past weekend in our small rural town. Here is some photos to give you a peek. Continue reading Antique Tractors..
They called my parents the Greatest Generation I guess because they grew up during the Great Depression and were steeled by World War II. This post is going to tell you some stories about my dad. My dad was born in 1923. I’m sure he never traveled further than Indianapolis, which was forty miles away, during his first eighteen years. As mentioned in a previous post his father was a pig farmer and that was probably dad’s total life experiences through his high school years. Belle Union where he grew up is almost non-existent today and was not much even in dad’s … Continue reading The Greatest Generation…
I just ran across this picture in my Lightroom database. It was taken about twenty years ago but still one of my favorites. It was taken in my backyard from three houses ago. Continue reading Foggy Morning..
For some odd reason I am particularly attracted to old large group pictures and boxes. Here are some boxes from the Patee House Hotel Museum in Missouri. Continue reading Patee House Hotel Museum – Boxes
My month-long hiatus from blogging a while back was more than just blogging. I pretty much ceased all my normal daily activity in favor of just doing what I felt like doing. Some days it was vegging out and some it was all day in the barn working on my micro-RV project of the last three years. And of course given that it was Spring, which is my favorite time of year, it was about sitting on my “mountain” and enjoying the view. One of the primary things I gave up during this period was keeping lists of my activity. … Continue reading No More Lists…
Got a new macro lens for my DSLR today. Its going to be fun learning this new photo technique. I have had a book entitled Understanding close-up Photography by Bryan Peterson for a while now. Got it dusted off and ready to jump in with both feet. I seem to always be a both feet type of guy… Continue reading Keeping Things In Perspective…
I recently make a second trip to Bandelier National Monument in northern New Mexico and appreciated it as much as I did the first time. Similar to Mesa Verde in Southern Colorado, it is a mystical place. Click on any … Continue reading Bandelier National Monument
I just ran across a very creative team at Creative Arts, Unlimited Inc on the History Channel. The work they do is amazing. If you get cable or satellite it is well worth the time to watch them. Their creativity is truly inspiring. And they get their projects done so quickly it is hard to believe… Continue reading Museum Men…
The Great Salt Lake in Nevada is an impressive place. We spent a couple of hours walking its shoreline. It is impressive and at the same time depressive. We came into Salt Lake City via the west and it was … Continue reading The Great Salt Lake…
The title of this post was written by my folk music hero Wood Guthrie many years ago but that is not the topic of this post. Instead it is to say so long to a fellow Hoosier Dave Letterman. Although I was not a regular late-night TV viewer in any form I did catch Dave’s show on occasion. I have a certain kindred relationship with Dave even though it is assuredly one-sided. Dave is a younger fellow than me by almost six months. I think he was born in the same Indianapolis hospital as I was. I almost took a … Continue reading So Long, Its Been Good to Know Yuh…
I find Native American art to be some of the most creative around. I found this one at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque NM a few months ago. Continue reading Native American Art
I can’t get very far along with this new blog before I bring in the folk music category. Folk music, particularly Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, PP&M, is what formed many of my attitudes toward life and made me realize that I am to some degree an empath. But it was not until I discovered Woody Guthrie that I came to see the true origins of folk music. When I recently visited the Wood Guthrie Center in Tulsa Oklahoma I was totally struck by the breadth of his talents. I am now reading a book entitled Bound For Glory which is … Continue reading Bound For Glory
The main thing that brought me to the Brady District in Tulsa OK was the Woody Guthrie Center. I’m glad I found it. Neat stores, restaurants, museums. Continue reading Brady District – Tulsa OK
Let’s take a whirlwind trip through St. Louis via Interstate 70 today. These pics were taken about two months ago. Continue reading A Quick Trip Through St. Louis…
Maybe the title of this post is a little over-inflated :) but I am going back as far as I know about family. My mom never talked about her family and I only met a brother once so I can’t say much about that side of my family. Much more about mom in that regard in incoming posts. The only experiences with family was on my dad’s side. Grandpa Walters was a pig farmer and I believe his father was also a pig farmer. It is what he did. He had a farm of about forty acres near Belle Union Indiana. … Continue reading In The Beginning… About The Grandparents
I found this interesting place recently in the panhandle of Texas. I guess it used to be a gas station of sorts but that was likely years ago. It is now surrounded by wind turbines. The old and the new fit nicely together.. Continue reading Old and New..
Being part Native American I always plan of visiting Native American centers throughout my travels. This one is in Albuquerque NM. We visited there this Spring. … Continue reading Indian Cultural Center – Albuquerque Gallery
I am back from a six-week hiatus here at InSearchOfAmerica. I wanted to take this time off to thoroughly enjoy the beautiful Spring season here in the Midwest. While I was gone from daily blogging I worked on some improvements to the site. Since pictures are at the heart of this blog I brought up a new “Gallery” option in the header menu. I also categorized and tagged the posts to be easier to find just the info you want. It feels good to be back but I did come to some decisions about my blogging future. While I will … Continue reading New & Improved…
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