[JustAmy]

March 20, 2012


Grahic by Billie

Spring day! Happy day!
God hath made the earth so gay!
Every little flower He waketh,
Every herb to grow He maketh.
When the pretty lambs are springing,
When the little birds are singing,
Child, forget not God to praise,
Who hath sent such happy days.

Submitted by Jane Austen (4-16-09)

[jaycee]

Such a sweet graphic, Amy. There's something about little lambs
that just melts your heart. And Jane, I love your very cute
poem and didn't know you wrote poetry! I love learning new things!

[Kitty Mittens]

Beautiful Post, Amy, Billie, and Jane!

(((((Thank you for the Blessing)))))

[oldteen]

Gratitude is when memory is stored
in the heart and not in the mind.
- Lionel Hampton -

Enjoy a Grateful 1st Day of Spring!

[oldteen]

So cute, Amy.

Thank you both!

Happy Spring!

[MEG33]

Happy Spring GratiTuesday To Amy's Place

Barn Swallows

I awoke to territorial fusses over a new /old Barn Swallow nest..I may have missed the
remains of an old nest behind the post but it seems new today ..There's plenty of new
mud to build one!...I love watching them swoop and soar.
Panoramic sky put me in awe of the lightning and rolling sometimes earth moving
thunder during the night.
Sandtraps on the golf course are water hazards today.
I am grateful for rain , grateful for wildflowers, grateful to be here, for family,
for FRiends and your pretty posts and poetry.

[ConorMacNessa]

HAPPY TUESDAY TO AMY’S PLACE!

There is a story behind this picture:

Always known as a photographer who would take almost any chance if it meant getting the picture, Gene Smith’s good luck throughout the Pacific deserted him on May 23, 1945. While on the east coast of Okinawa photographing an essay titled "A Day in the Life of a Front Line Soldier," he was seriously wounded by a Japanese shell fragment. The missile hit him in the head cutting both cheeks, injuring his tongue and knocking out several teeth. Characteristically, he was taking pictures at the time and the fragment passed through his left hand before entering his cheek just below the eye and near the nose. His comment in the hospital later: "I forgot to duck but I got a wonderful shot of those who did... my policy of standing up when the others are down finally caught up with me."

Ernie Pyle, another great war correspondent, who was on Okinawa with Smith and was not so lucky, wrote of him, "Gene Smith is an idealist, trying to do great good with his work but it will either break him or kill him."

Smith’s war wounds cost him two painful years of hospitalization and plastic surgery. During these years he took no pictures and whether he would ever be able to return to photography was doubtful. Then one day, during his period of convalescence, Smith took a walk with his two children and even though it was still intensely painful for him to operate a camera, came back with one of the most famous photographs of all time: "A Walk to Paradise Garden." This memorable image was to serve as the final picture in the famous "Family of Man" Exhibition.

Nos genuflectitur ad non princeps sed Princeps Pacem!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)