Happy Holidays!

Christmas is starting to show up everywhere. And I could not resist showing my Yuletide findings either, this photo was taken in Tylertown, Mississippi at a Tylertown Florist, LLC. The tree was stunning, and the big white teddy bear just topped it off, it really got me excited about the upcoming Holiday!

Small Town Mississippi

I love small towns, and today I spent the day in Tylertown, Mississippi. A town full of happy people going about their happy lives. This is the main street of town called Beulah Ave, full of many great little shops and businesses to explore.

Pearl

Life is never perfect, and love is never what you want it to be. I don't know where we will end up, but I do know that we share a love. As we enter this new phase in our relationship, I feel a chance to begin again. Everyone knows how pearls are made, sand in an oysters mouth... Well our love has encountered and will continue to encounter "sand" and other trouble... But as we work the best we can, we can make our own pearls. Someday when we are old and grey, we both will stand hand in hand on a beach of pearls and watch the waves come in, and know that our love has conquered all that has attempted to shatter it, and together we will be victorious.

(I wrote this several months ago, someone took it off my LJ and ran with it... it has appeared in several places, along with another quote of mine... I feel honored that people are touched by my words.)

Creole Lifestyle

Louisiana Bayous are not the only places where there are homes In the middle of rural areas on stilts… there are many places in Mississippi that harkens back to the Cajun lifestyle. These homes in Hinds County are within a hundred feet from the Pearl River. They are homes for a group of people that I have personally grown to love for many reasons, one because I am related to them, and that I once also lived in one of the very river homes in this photo. My mother’s family is descended from the Creole people, and apparently that is a part of genetics that lives on in its descendants.

Pangea

This is my interpretation of a river scene on the great continent of Pangea during the Triassic Period.

The land was much different then, nothing like we know it today, a Cycad sits along the bank near a fallen Ginkgo tree, the seed ferns around it continue to grow nourished by the river that lazily flows into the Tethys sea. A lone male Cynognathus walks along the river bank, looking for small morsels that the current may wash ashore... or perhaps the scent of a female. A Brightly colored Ornithodira surveys the dead Ginkgo for insect life, unaware of the wonders the future and evolution holds instore for its decendants. In the distance the Foothills to the extensive Central Pangean Mountains(Proto-Appalachians Mountains) loom diviving the continent into North and South.

Barn

My entire life I would pass b this old barn on the way to and from my mother’s. Something about it would always catch my fancy; it always had a charm to it. Something about it reminded me of the Wizard of Oz, it had a beauty all its own.

The photo was originally taken in color, but I had to play with it a little… to give it my own personal touch.

Old Rosemary Bridge

These are the remains of a former bridge that once linked the Hinds County side of Rosemary Road to the Rankin County side. The current bridge is a one-lane ancient relic of a time when cars where big behemoths that they needed their own tracks on the bridge… this leaves me to believe that the bridge that presided the present Rosemary bridge was only strong enough for a horse and carriage. There are a few relics of the old bridge including old pilings, the remains of the railing in the water behind it… and some standing railing just off to the back. It is

surprisingly beautiful to the otherwise pristine Pearl River.

I'm Late, I'm Late, For a Very important Date...

The Pearl clock tower is a relatively new addition to the city at only two years old. It was exciting when they announced that it was going to be built, and it makes a wonderful addition to the Pearl City Hall/Library/Police Department/Community Room/ Former High school that is the “town square”. It is made up of bricks from a former wing of the high school that was demolished to build the Community Room, and contains plaques on the inside commemorating everyone who ever graduated from the old High School. It is Modern in appearance, and is lighted from the inside to be able to change colors with the season… or flash rainbow at night on someone’s whim. For the longest the Pearl Clock tower did flash rainbow colors at night, earning it a nickname with Pearl’s Gay community, and placing Pearl at the butt of many jokes… however the true beauty of the clock is often ignored…

View from the Inside looking up.