Saturday, March 04, 2023

Letter "I" --- Friday's Weekend Roundup 10 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures

  - Tom's Requests: Starts with "I"; A Favorite; and Tom's suggestion, "Individual." 

  - James' request, Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures.  
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Starts with "I": "Ice Cream" will be my "I" word pair this go-round.  Blue Bell Light Homemade Vanilla is our favorite Ice Cream, it is made in Brenham Texas where the contented cows live.  Now it may be out of production, our Kroger store has discontinued selling it.
https://contentedcows.com/our-books/contented-cows-still-give-better-milk/ 


We have visited the Blue Bell plant several Brother-in-law, Jim W came with my sister Lois here also. 
This old truck was the 'modern' Blue Bell Creamery delivery in 1932 (it's a '32 Ford Model B delivery truck)


A Favorite: This is the neighborhood Gelato Mio store in St. John's Wood, London, U.K. (link) The store is on High Street, like the U.S. "Main Street", for St. John's Wood, this town in Westminster, is home for Paul McCartney now and was the old London Stomping ground for the Beatles. 

Their first recording studio was on Abbey Road there, and only a block from our Daughter, KP, and SIL, who lived in London for five years, all but the last two months in St. John's Wood.

While we were in London, staying with the kids, we would make a visit to Gelato Mia more often than once a week, i.e., we were 'regulars'.  The ice cream, European Gelato, was to die for.  My favorite was Raspberry Amaretto in a Waffle cone. 

Now for the ice creams that we eat here at home:



Tom's suggestion, "Individual":  Two Happy Individuals.  We brought this sheet cake to our Sunday morning Bible class to share.





[more ducks on the other side of the pond - click to enlarge any photo]



Reflections and /or Street Photos/Candid Captures:  I took these pictures out the back yard of our local County Library.  Sometimes I will bring a lunch and eat on one of the benches here. 

 [click pictures for full screen]

A Langniappe:  The Isle of Man isn't a country so I'll have to take it off my country list that we've visited.  It is a self-governing British 'Crown dependency,' not a country. (Wikipedia link)  It is located off the coast of Britain.  Though there is a ferry that goes there, we flew.  My Mom's side-grandfather's family came from the Isle of Man.  We visited it in September 2007 (prior blog posts).

The main thing we did in the Isle of Man was to go out North and South from Douglas, the capital city in the middle, where we stayed up to the north by train and then go to the south end via bus.  Lots of site seeing.  We did see evidence of the Corkhill family having been there.  One lady at the Information center in Douglas informed us that her maiden name was Corkhill.
    

Another Langiappe:  A Fairy Bridge, and Fairy Garden are on the road to the Iceland airport from Douglas. It is customary to say hello and goodbye to the Fairy as you pass. That brings good luck.

You can stop there to post a letter to the Fairy. Just leave it in his garden. Chances are (not) if the letter contains a wish, the Fairy will make it come true.

My list of "I" countries: (URL)

Iceland    India     Ireland   (Isle of Man, not a country)

Israel      Italy 


Note:  I've been ailing but this finished now, a little later than I had planned.  I think I'm on the upturn, fingers crossed.  
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The Fine Print:   

 - [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra-large.] 
 - The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law. 
 - I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Traveler" (click here, Link, for Tom's Weekend Reviews) 
 - I am also linking again this week with James of "Weekend Reflections/Street Photos" (click here for his Street Folk and Reflections Photos).
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