Wednesday in Augusta Nov 29, 2006

This morning Linda and I went over to Westview Cemetery for the first time to locate the graves of her Grandfather and Grandmother Reid. We found their headstone and noticed it was the only one in this large grave plot. We soon found out from the office that 8 infants of theirs are buried here. Only two of their children survived to adulthood, Linda's father and his brother.


Here you can see the Powderwork Tower over at Sibley Mill. The grandparents' headstone is in the lower right corner.


After Linda's grandmother died, her grandfather married again to this lady who we had the greatest pleasure of meeting after we first married and yes, she was in a wheelchair (as the headstone states) and we remember her smoking a pipe! She was a very sweet and warm lady.


From the other cemetery we saw this headstone with our son's nickname on it!


Also saw this interesting headstone.


Sorry to throw another view shot at you.


Another shot of downtown Augusta from the Calhoun Parkway near our house.


I took this picture from our kitchen window this morning looking at the Calhoun Parkway that goes over the houses behind us on the other street. You can see a vehicle passing across to the right up there.


Throwing a Broad Street picture at you, taken in the era when cars were easy to recognize model and year (picture from the internet). That is the tall Confederate Monument in the median.

Here is a picture of an old post card showing Greene Street before the median was used for displaying the many monuments as it is today.


Personally I think this is a pretty picture of an Augusta Canal tour boat at the dock.


This gives you an idea how high the canal levee is. These steps are used by tourists to get up to the top of the levee to ride the boats.



My artistic picture of the day.











Here I am still standing, pausing to get ready to post some pictures next time on my walk to the post office and back. I'm gonna also call this one my artistic picture of the day. Noticed I have my coat buttoned one off! Duh!


This is a picture that I love showing Snowball sniffing BadBoy's feet because he had just come in from being out when he slipped out the door earlier.