God Bless America

"God bless America, land that I love 

Stand beside her and guide her 

Through the night with the light from above 

From the mountains to the prairies 

To the oceans white with foam 

God bless America, my home sweet home" 

- Irving Berlin 

God Bless America

"God bless America, land that I love 

Stand beside her and guide her 

Through the night with the light from above 

From the mountains to the prairies 

To the oceans white with foam 

God bless America, my home sweet home" 

- Irving Berlin

Downtown Blacksburg - Main Street with Flag

Downtown Blacksburg, Virginia

Along Main Street in the Heart of Blacksburg

Print Available - HERE 

Sinking Creek Covered Bridge - Giles County Virginia

Sinking Creek Covered Bridge 

70-foot-long red wooden bridge with a tin roof, built in 1916. 

Open to the public.

Giles County, Virginia

Larger prints/ canvas prints/ posters / cards

 available:

HERE 

Do you have covered bridges in your area?

Long May She Wave

You're a grand old flag, 

You're a high flying flag 

And forever in peace may you wave.

- George M. Cohan

   

Available - HERE 

Remember

I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that.

 ~ David Levithan

Old Glory

Print Available - HERE 


You're a grand old flag, 

You're a high flying flag 

And forever in peace may you wave. 

You're the emblem of 

The land I love. 

The home of the free and the brave. 

Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the

 Red, White and Blue, 

Where there's never a boast or brag.

 Should auld acquaintance be forgot, 

Keep your eye on the grand old flag. 

~ George M. Cohan

Info on how Our Flag got the nickname Old Glory -  HERE

To Honor and Remember

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

~ Rose Kennedy 

Freedom Isn't Free

Deserving of Gratitude

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

~Cynthia Ozick

Thank you to  all of our soldiers that are serving and those who have served including My Son, My Hubby, My Dad, My Father in law, and countless others. As civilians we will never know the sacrifices they have made and continue to make for us.

God Bless Them All and God Bless America.

Friendship, Flag and Freedom

Friends that drove a LONG way to be with our son at his graduation. It's always nice to have family at a special event like this - but I think it's even more special to have your friends.

Three quotes for today - One on Friendship, One on our Flag, and One on our Freedom.

Happy 4th of July!

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ev'ry heart beats true

'neath the Red, White and Blue,

~George M. Cohan

And I'm proud to be an American,

where at least I know I'm free.

And I won't forget the men who died,

who gave that right to me.

~Lee Greenwood

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July!

"The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men."
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Honor

No person was ever honored for what he received.

Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
~ Calvin Coolidge

The Sound of Silence

To hear the echo: you must be silent. 

~  Brian Hernandez

Print Available - HERE