J M Wetherington Sr
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21st Wedding Anniversary Week – Day Seven – Farrel-McWhirter Farm Park
Friday , 15, June 2018 Family, Photography, Travel 1 CommentIt’s day seven and the last day of our 21st Wedding Anniversary Week. We’re visiting Farrel-McWhirter Farm Park in Redmond, WA with Jade and Maxwell. You can click here to read about day one, here to read about day two, here to read about day three, here to read about day four, here to read […]
21st Wedding Anniversary Week – Day Six – Underground Seattle
Wednesday , 30, May 2018 Travel Comments Off on 21st Wedding Anniversary Week – Day Six – Underground SeattleIt’s day six of our 21st Wedding Anniversary Week and we’re exploring Underground Seattle with Jade and Maxwell. You can click here to read about day one, here to read about day two, here to read about day three, here to read about day four, and here to read about day five. After breakfast at […]
We have a couple of folks who (sadly) will be leaving our External Affairs group here in Austin tomorrow. After our going away potluck lunch today, one of them asked if there was a way to get a group photo. I volunteered to take the photo because I always have my DSLR camera with me, […]
A couple of Saturday’s ago I took the day to travel to San Antonio, Texas to visit and remember the Alamo. I had been planning to visit the Alamo since I first arrived in Texas back in August of 2017, but work schedules or weather or other events kept pushing back my plans. And, in […]
Restoring Family Photos Damaged by Hurricane Harvey
Sunday , 4, February 2018 Photography Comments Off on Restoring Family Photos Damaged by Hurricane HarveyHere in Texas, we’re approaching the 6-month mark following Hurricane Harvey’s tremendous impact on the Texas coastal area and metropolitan Houston, resulting in 68 deaths directly related to the storm, and in massive property damage and destruction. Having lived through Hurricane Charley in Florida back in 2004, I have a small idea of what survivors […]
Throwback Thursday – Disney Cruise – Nassau – May, 1999
Thursday , 23, July 2015 Throwback Thursday Comments Off on Throwback Thursday – Disney Cruise – Nassau – May, 1999In May of 1999, Cindy and I took a Disney Cruise to the Bahamas and Disney’s private island, Castaway Cay. We had a great time! This picture, that Cindy took in Nassau, originally appeared on a web page I used to post our photos and gave me a chance to poke fun at myself and […]
On April 19, 1995, at 9:02 am, the single largest act of domestic terrorism our country has ever experienced took place at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It was a day that began like any other day for the Federal workers, visitors to the various agencies in the building and […]
Back in January, Grandma and I took Abby to Leu Gardens for a short morning visit. I’m finally getting around to looking over the photos I took and I found these six of Abby that I really liked, so I thought I’d post them. Abby is always (ok, almost always) happy to “model” for Granddad […]
Throwback Thursday – Cindy And I Atop Waterrock Knob 2010
Thursday , 16, April 2015 Throwback Thursday Comments Off on Throwback Thursday – Cindy And I Atop Waterrock Knob 2010In June of 2010 Cindy and I moved to Maggie Valley and in October our friend Liz came up to spend a week with us. One day the three of us hiked to the top of Waterrock Knob, off the Blue Ridge Parkway, and Liz took this photo of us. Good memories!