Jenkins gone

This was the Jenkins House, it served as a hospital during the Battle of Stones River. But the owner didn't care and tore it down in 2006. There is still an empty lot there.

Wynnewood

Before the tornado nearly took the roof off a few years ago.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

RIP Horace

Horace, a Beluga Sturgeon at Chattanooga Aquarium, died last week, the day after his sibling, also at the Aquarium died. RIP Horace and Boris.

Ebenezer Church

Ebenezer Methodist Church, near Chuckey, Tennessee. 

The congregation was founded by my 7th Great-Grandfather, Henry Earnest. He and his son, Felix, both served with John Sevier in the Revolutionary War and are buried in the cemetery beside the church.

Simply to thy cross I cling

Pass Christian, Mississippi

Bruceton Roundhouse

Old Bruceton, Tennessee roundhouse

Morning Barn

Bridge over Mississippi

Mississippi River Bridge at Chestnut, Illinois

Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle Discovery is making its last flight today, from Florida to Washington DC.

This particular Shuttle is the Atlantis, that I had the fortune to see while piggybanked on the 747 at an Air Show at Fort Campbell, Kentucky in 1998.

Red Tailed Hawk

Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee

April 15

Certainly an inauspicious day, the day Lincoln died, the day the Titanic sank, it was even the first day of the most disastrous flood in US history along the Mississippi in 1927.

Wickham Cemetery

Forgotten Friday

The Barn

Eads Bridge, St Louis

Shiloh 150 Years, Once Pain, Now Peace

I am back!

And I don't know where to start! It has been almost exactly a year since I posted last and I've had a somewhat busy year. Could have been better, but gas prices and a crappy car being what they are, well I can't change those things right now.

This time last year I posted about the town of Cairo, Illinois that I had just visited. And within a month or so the town was all over the news with the possibility of flooding due to historic floods along the Mississippi River. I suppose the town was spared eventually, at the cost of others. That's how it goes.

I am not sure how I will continue here though. If I should continue the daily themes I had set up or if I should just start randomly posting some of my favorite photos that I've taken and posted on Flickr. I may just do that for now until I can gauge a response(LOL if there is ANY!).

So here is today's photo, taken from a recent trip to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, to visit family and see just how things have changed in seven years after Hurricane Katrina-it was quite sad.