Here is all that is left from King Solomon's Great Temple, this piece of wall after the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70A.D. It is called The Wailing Wall:

Tommy White sent me this picture showing the way Sontag looked long before we were born I am sure.

I have tried to enlarge it and preserve the integrity of the picture. I can recognize some of the buildings that I remembered as a small kid (click on it to see it enlarged):

This tower for cats has really surprised us because it is merely a couple of cloth like shelves hanging in this structure but the cats have gone nuts to get on and sleep as you can see. Even Lucy, our youngest member, has already gotten on the middle shelf and taken quite a few naps herself:

Today at the local park several of the county organizations had a day of exibiting their services and products for the handicap. One of them has pocketalkers that the agent had me to put on and it was awesome to hear him talk so clearly without any of the surrounding sounds and be able to hear him talking in the office while I went down the hall a ways. I will be borrowing it soon to try it out on the bus and at church. This building at the park is a casino that is used for bingo and other events:

On my way back home while walking I was on this street bridge over the Calhoun Expressway and took a picture of downtown Augusta:

Probably the most relaxed cat we have ever had, Puffy:

Here are more views of the bowl rim that I see on my job driving around the rural part of the county:

This house blows my mind. It is just a wee bit too done up. It looks like a florist shop out in the middle of the neighborhoood!

Window Shopping

Here are some pictures I took while "window shopping" down Broad Street today:

Just a bunch of pictures

Here are a couple of pictures of the red door to a Lutheran Church downtown:

This is the downtown city bus terminal, part of the bus system that I work for:

Here is how the county make use of their state prisoners. They are used all over the county to do clean up and trim up.

Just had to take another picture of this ole time bike:

This gives you how big this mural is by comparing it to the parked pickup in front of it:

From Abigail's 7th Birthday

Linda came across this handerchief that her mother made for Abigail's 7th birthday that she has saved all these years. Mrs. Reid was constantly doing needlework like this, creating things from ideas purely out of her imagination. A true folk artist.

This morning I went over my collection of pictures and picked out a bunch that I think you have not seen before. So hope you enjoy this bunch even though it does not have a picture of a cat!

This is one of the murals seen in Augusta that I thought was unique in remembering an event:


I saw this one morning going to Tobacco Road and had to stop and take the picture:


Needless to say that I am fascinated by this actress:

When Emily Tubman of Augusta became the sole ownership of her husband's slave after he died, she gave her slaves the option to go back to Africa or stay and she would make sure they will be well taken care of with either choice. The group that went back to Liberia settled there and one of the slave's grandson became the longest serving president of Liberia, William Tubman:

I said there will be no pictures of cats but I did not say no pictures of the canal. Here you can see the water level is above the houses:

Here is the docking area for the tourist to take the canal boat tour:

Needless to say, these kids had it made on their field trip in the boat:

Here is a picture of Augusta as seen from South Carolina:

Augusta have policemen riding bikes on duty:

Here is an older internet picture showing Broad Street with the Confederate Monument:

Here is looking up at the Lamar Building Penthouse from the base of the Confederate Monument:

Here is a view taken from the exterior elevator as I was descending from the Lamar Penthouse:

Here is a view of Augusta from one of its three road bridges:

Yeah, even here kids will be kids. I thought this would go as an artistic picture:

Here is the first church established in Augusta, St. Paul's Episcopal Church downtown next to the river:

Here is a picture I found on the internet showing what the little town of Bethlehem looks like today:

More of the same

One of the still exciting rides Linda and I have in town is going down the Calhoun Expressway into town and seeing these sights that never get boring:

And of course, for me, while driving on my job the view of Fort Gordon from just about anywhere in the county is always awesome:

Took these pictures of Lucy this morning. I guess you can say she had truly accepted the world she is in now:

This is a house on the top of the hills where I drop off and pick up a very sweet elderly black lady who comes here two times a week to do housework for the owner. To me this house looks like a doll house all fixed up: