Nosy Nancy?

Asking how someone is doing or how their son or daughter is doing is not being nosy. Asking if someone is okay is not being nosy. 

It is being polite. It is being concerned. It is being human. It is being kind. It is being considerate.

It is part of being southern.

In the south we have good manners and use them often. We are hospitable – and part of that is asking about someone’s well-being. It is not meant in any way to be intrusive.

Just throwing that out there.

Confederate Flag

While sitting at the dinner table with my husband and in-laws, the topic of the current issue of the Confederate flag came up. Now granted, I am from Alabama, and I grew up knowing exactly what it meant. While most liberals only attack the Confederate flag because of their view of racism and slavery, I wish that our government would take this opportunity to educate the public about what the flag (and the civil war) was really about. How can people in this day and age be held accountable for what was done over 100 years ago? That would be the same as putting a grandchild in jail for something that his great-grandfather did. Removing Confederate flags from our culture will not cure the race issue in our nation. If anything, it will enrage a large population and can the flames that people such as Reverend Al Sharpton (I use that title loosely) Have ignited. We will never be a country that is at peace until bottom-feeders like him are removed from the public eye.

Rural Decay

I think most people who come from and live in small towns have a love/hate relationship with that town. 

I love my hometown.

It is where I grew up, and where I still live.  

There has only been a short amount of time in the past 35 years that I haven't lived in here. For a couple of years I lived in SmallTownville while I worked and went to community college there. And I also lived in the quaint community of AnotherSmallTownville for 6 or so years.

But the remainder of my life has been lived in this good, down-home town..

There have been times I have loathed living here. When I couldn't find a job in town (hence having to move to SmallTownville to work after college), when I went through my divorce in 2010 (not so long ago actually), and when I went through a rough time with an acquaintance that decided to slander my name around my lovely little town.

But for the most part, I love this town. I am glad I get to live here now and that I get to raise my children here.

I have been taking pictures for a few years. I think I have been a Flickr subscriber since 2007, so that makes 8 years.  I went through all of the images I have stored there and  made two new albums:

Southography

Alabama the Beautiful

The first one is pictures of various places in the south that I have visited over the past eight years. I tried to concentrate on places that were forgotten - urban decay type pictures. Although most of the places I like to visit aren't and never have been urban by any means. 

So I should describe them as rural-decay.

The second set is of various places all over the state of Alabama. I really thought I had more images than what I found. I now have a mission -- take more pictures!

As if I needed to define a mission... ;)