A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....05-23-03....Sweet Home Alabama

Billie and Mama_Bear

[Pippin]

YEAH!

RELAX! :O)

[LadyX]

Lori, I found those bears typing in 'Mama Bear'...
Google to us Finest Wimmin is like makeup to a model..:))
Can't function without it...

[Pippin]

I dunno!

Mebbe for somtin different?

[sweetliberty]

Maybe today would be a good day to make a FReeper of him. Hehehe...

[Mama_Bear]

I love a lot of their songs, but I think my favorites are "If It Ain't Dixie" and "Pony Express".

I couldn't find a wav of those two songs - but I bet our resident music lady could. She knows where ALL the music is. ;-)

I did find this one though.....The Maker Said Take Her. :-)

[sweetliberty]

I had to steal that angel devil smiley.

[Pippin]

Steve Irwin!

My kinda guy!

I need to borrow one of his crocs, though.

Meekie need learnin'! LOL

[ladtx]

I spent many years at Fort Rucker, Alabama, the home of Army Aviation. I went to flight school there and returned as a TAC Officer and flight instructor. Two of my sons were born there.

After living a short time on post we bought a house in Enterprise, the only town to erect an monument to an insect pest, the boll weevil. The weevil destroyed the cotton crop forcing the farmers to turn to peanuts where they made more money.

A picture of Lowe Army Heliport where I instructed in the UH-1 "Huey".

Hanchey Army Heliport where I instructed in the OH-58 Kiowa and the CH-47 Chinook.

I enjoyed my tours in Alabama, plenty of fishing and close to the Panama City beaches.

[Pippin]

Of course!

But now he's got allies!

nicmarlo and ST.LOUIE1

[Pippin]

Of course!

But now he's got allies!

nicmarlo and ST.LOUIE1

[Pippin]

OOPS!

A double post!

[jwfiv]

Good mornng, Mama_Bear, all our Hostesses and all the Finest.

I'm gonna stretch it a little today and stray from Alabama proper a few miles to a magical place that bears that fair name.

The eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Range is a great destination for landscape photographers. Lying at the base of Mt. Whitney, the tallest peak in the lower 48 states, is Lone Pine. Between the steep, eastern escarpment of the Sierra and the town of Lone Pine, are the Alabama Hills.

Golden-brown boulders of all sizes lie scattered across sage-covered hills creating a highly textured foreground for a dramatic view of sharply rising Sierra summits that line the western edge of the Owens Valley–warm colors contrasting with cool gray granite and a deep blue sky.

These hills were named in honor of the battleship "Alabama" by prospectors from the South who were sympathetic to the Confederate cause in the 1860s. The Bureau of Land Management now is the care taker of 30,000 acres west of Lone Pine, designated as the "Alabama Hills Recreation lands."

The South still lives in California.

A screen cap looking West from the Alabamas:

A picture I took a few years ago, looking East:

For dessert, a little pecan pie...all that hiking makes me hungry.

May all Freepers be having a very good Friday.

I'm given to understand that one of our Hostesses is about to take wing to the Land Down Under...I wish youa very safe and wonderful journey, dear Mrs. Bear...)))

[sweetliberty]

"Meekie need learnin'!"

That sounds serious. Surely our Meekie couldn't have been being THAT bad!

[MeekOneGOP]

Thank you ! That is GREAT ! I did a View/Partial Source on your gif there and manipulated the text to extract the Dallas area and . . .

VOILA !! Success !! I love it !! The Dallas one is on my FReeper Profile page now. Near the top, just above the 'regular' Dallas Time & Temp gif.

If anyone else wants one for your city, send me the City and State and I'll see if I can rig it up !!

[JustAmy]

Good Morning, Ladtx!!!
Great to see you today. I have never been to Alabama. My goal is to visit all 50 states ....... boy I had better get busy; I'm not getting younger only smarter. LOL

[JustAmy]

Hi again, Meek.
How about Fresno? (California not Ohio)!

[LadyX]

"I haven't had a chance to read yesterday's LONG thread, but I hear there was lots of fun and games."

WHAAAAT??
But Mama, I was there almost to the very end, and can say everyone participating was very, very...um...well...we kinda let 'er rip, but I tried to maintain order...:))

Imagine my dismay this morning when nicotina threatened me with tellin' Nan I was misbehavin' !!!
(Who duz she think taut me how to be bad?!! LOLOL)

[sweetliberty]

"But now he's got allies!

nicmarlo and ST.LOUIE1"

Well, I know nic is always stirring up trouble....but sweet lil' ol' Louie? Well, on second thought....

[JustAmy]

That Alabama coffee will get you every time.

[LadyX]

Ah, jw - nothng like a day at the Finest when you serve up those Feasts for The Eyes and Soul - - - they bring us back to center, reminding us of all the wonderful Creations God shaped right here in America.

Thank you for being our window and eyes and recording artist on and of the loveliest parts of the world.....