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- Tom's This "Week's Prompts, "A word with "X." A Favorite. Your Choice." - James' request, "Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures." _ _ _ _
My first Car, the 1950 Studebaker Starlight coupe
[picture of my toy 1950 Studebaker Starlight Coupe, a cast iron model of my first car]
[I have quite a few cast iron 1:18 scale toy cars, this one included.]
A word with "X": "Texaco gasoline pump", old fashioned pump gas measured by what's in the glass jar on top, and my 1950 Studebaker Starlight Coupe. Be watching as there are a couple of other words with the letter "X" here today.
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| The fellow on the bench is made of bronze |
My Choice: This one is a repeat of one from last week's blog. My readers may have missed this posting, on it I had a lot of the lake pictures out the south windows of the Library. It is sooo Relaxing, I've spent time, but not sharing with the Art Work fellow here, on the other benches while Mrs. Jim was attending her Book Club meeting.
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- James' request, "Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures: I took this on our supposedly Daily Walk. There is a reflection, but the wind was so breezy that the disturbed water was not in the mood for reflections. The brownish cluster spot just beyond the duck's head was a reflection of the second tree cluster from the left.
Mrs. Jim was away with her bridge group on this their playday, so I walked by myself. I noticed that the smaller, younger ducks were gone. I think someone must have captured them for cooking. They would come to a person if that person had some food for ducks.
A Favorite: Isn't she an excellent Beauty, the truck, that is. Of course all the ladies featured on my Calendars she being very nicely kept.
"I will always like the 1949 Ford Pickup., it is one of my favorite old trucks. One like this is what I drove to high school in town for my last two years (the first two years I did not attend a town school, but rather a 10-grade two room country school to which I rode my horse, Minnie).
This one is on the August 2009 NAPA calendar that I have in my collection. Here is a link to read about me and that truck." [Collected from my previous Weekend Roundup May 25, 2018 post,
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Labels: Art, Birds, Cars, Friday's Weekend Roundup 10, Lois, Reflections, Sister, Walk pictures
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
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[Click on picture for a very pretty Street Photo scene © Jimmiehov]
A Lagniappe: Seen driving home in a Neighbor's lawn,
one of my favorite Christmas Nativity Scenes
One of my favorite Christmas Nativity Scenes.
I am glad that Lucy has Yellow hair band as do
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- Tom's Requests: Starts with "Y"; A Favorite; and Tom's suggestion, "Y".
- James' request, Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures. _ _ _ _
Starts with "Y": Yellow cab starts with "Y".
A Favorite: Our neighbor lady's father was visiting. I like his Yellow Vette.
This Yellow Kia was parked at our Kroger store this afternoon. It looks like a fun car to drive except I'd rather be driving the Corvette.
Tom's suggestion, "Yellow": I sliced this Yellow pineapple with Mrs. Jim's pineapple slicer.
James' request, Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures: I'm not sure what this is, I'm guessing that the Yogee Man took this picture when I wasn't minding my cell phone.
Another Lagniappe:
MERRY CHRISTMAS (again) !!
Sh... I think I saw Santa practicing his delivery
over in Australia where it's past Midnight already.
Is he using his old 90's International Pickup Truck
instead of the Reindeer and sleigh?
A Notice: The Snoopy scene above and this one are a part of my seasonal blog. Now that Thanksgiving has past, I am posting my Christmas Trees on my Christmas Tree Farm blog. See them at
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- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (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).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
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Labels: Art, Cars, Christmas, Food, Friday's Weekend Roundup 09, Holiday Posts, Reflections
- Tom's Requests for this Week's Prompts:
Starts with "W"; A Favorite; and Tom's suggestion, "P"ainting
- James wishes for our Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures
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Starts with "P": Today is Park for the "P" Word. Please enjoy my Herman Park Pictures that I took here in our adjacent Houston, Texas.
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After lunch, Mrs. Jim and I drove over to the 445-acre (1.80 km²) Herman Park (link 01)(link 02).
Everyone is proud of the new Herman Park Train. We haven't ridden this one but sure did ride the other one, a lot. Kids and grandkids all liked it when they were young. Mrs. Jim and BP rode that old one just this winter.
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Reflections: The Herman Park has a really nice Japanese Garden too! We didn't get to stay long there because it closes at 5:00 PM until summer time. (link)
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. The bridge and pond above remind me of Monet's works at Giverny. Mrs. Jim and I went there in France before we got too old for things like that. We took our son, Tim with us also.
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That's General/President Sam Houston at the end of the reflection pool.
[large picture] [super size] We didn't rent a Paddle boat but you would be able to do that.
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Lagniappe (1): There is the Museum of Natural Science, the Cockrell Butterfly Center (link), a Planetarium, and a very nice IMAX Theatre if you want to stay cool in the air conditioning.
[large picture] [super size] Walking to the Museum, we saw this orange flowering fruit tree in bloom (in the center of the picture). 
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The steps here are in front of the Museum. They lead to a huge sun dial where there are always a bunch of kids playing something similar to hopscotch among the numbers.
Lagniappe (1): What we didn't see were the 4500 animal Houston Zoo (at Herman Park)(you've gotta see this link to the zoo and all other attractions at Herman Park, the Miller Outdoor Theatre, and the 18-hole Herman Park Golf Course All three of these are Houston Texas size, that means real big(!!). If you haven't been there, please visit the Wikipedia article, you will be impressed. Come visit us and I promise we can go there!
A Favorite: My Pony, it's my retirement gift to me back in 2001. A 1998 Mustang GT Convertible with 49K miles then (now 106K).
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| Revelation 21:6 by Larry Dyke circa 1970's |
Tom's Choice, "Painting": The original Painting for this Print was given to President Richard Nixon on National Prayer Day, early 1970's. Amazon has one signed by President Nixon for $199, ours is signed and numbered.
Revelation 21:6, King James Version says, "And he said unto me, 'It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.'"
Please Pardon the Reflections in the photo, I took it inside this afternoon where the lighting was sort of messing things up.
A Lagniappe (2): Panning for Gold? We did in Alaska, got a little to take home. But like "all the fish he had got was in his mother's pail," all the gold we got was purchased in the gift shop.
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- [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra-large.]
- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link is here to click 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).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
-The one-legged Goose photo was previously posted in April 2015 with several other photos with a slightly humorous poem I wrote, it is posted at the link below on my other active blog,
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Labels: Art, Friday's Weekend Roundup 09, Mustang, Reflections, Travel, Walk pictures
. - Tom's posting prompts: This "Week's Prompts Starts with "H." Prompts Starts with "H." - A Favorite. - "H"eavenly.
- James wishes for our Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures
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Starts with "H": Horse starts with "H". Most of my readers know I rode a Horse to a neighboring Country school for my first two high school years. There were three in my class, also three in the classes before and after mine.
Minnie was a nice horse, very gentle, one we'd had since I ever knew our horses. She sort of rejuvenated being around we kids. She died while I was away in college in Lincoln, the University of Nebraska.
A Favorite: Houston, the Town, third largest city in the US (some say it's fourth and Chicago should be third). This weather map for a Houston TV station on Wednesday fairly well shows the metropolitan area of Houston. It doesn't show much of Montgemery County where we lived before moving to Katy to be near our younger daughter.
2022 stats, population 2,345K, metro area 6+M, average income $84,279 (well over our retirement income), and over 400,000 illegals. City Demographics are pictured to the right.
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My cousins, Linda and Jack,standing
away from the statue of Sam Houston
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There is another named "Houston", a large statue on I-45 North near Huntsville, Texas, north after Conroe. President Sam Houston was our first and third president of The Republic of Texas back before the United States annexed us. He also was the sixth governor of Tennessee and the seventh governor of Texas. (bing search, "Sam Houston)
Tom's Choice, "Heavenly" and Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures: Heavens and Horizon, Reflected towards the viewer.
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- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link is here to click 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).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
A Lagniappe: A Poem for Min:
To Min; my faithful pony
Your name was Min
best horse there's ever been
(About you, Min)
Dappled white with
small spots of gray throughout
Always there for
me to pet, brush, and stroke
Min was Dad's horse
Bess, older, was for us
Soon Min grown old
became the horse for me
Rode her to school
high school three miles away
Plodged at first
I taught her to gallop
Also to jump
the puddles and ditches
Come rain and snow
was off to school we'd go
Bareback come cold
Minnie would keep me warm
New friends for her,
they, very soon she made
Other horses
in the school barn, kids too
Two girls we'd meet
at the corner waiting
Waiting for us
to come over the hill
Minnie first saw
the girls and their horses
Years quickly passed
Two in town then we're gone
Minnie retired,
soon after, pasture went
I drove to school
grades eleven and twelve
Off to college
made new friends, boys and girls
Minnie passed on
Heaven's horse now, was friend of mine
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- Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved
- Previosly posted May 21, 2022, in my other active blog
Sam Houston statue photo previously posted,
also various times, my first post of the statue was
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Labels: Animals, Art, Friday's Weekend Roundup 09, Poem, Reflect'ions, Weather
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[large picture] [super size] We didn't rent a Paddle boat but you would be able to do that. 
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[large picture] [super size] Walking to the Museum, we saw this orange flowering fruit tree in bloom (in the center of the picture). 
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- 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).