Here is a picture of the house that was discussed in the last post.
We wish you all a wonderful weekend!!
Sidney Clopton Lanier was born February 3, 1842, in Macon, Georgia, to parents Robert Sampson Lanier and Mary Jane Anderson. He began playing the flute at an early age, and his love of that musical instrument continued throughout his life. He attended Oglethorpe University near Milledgeville, Georgia, graduating first in his class shortly before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
He fought in the Civil War, primarily in the tidewater region of Virginia, where he served in the Confederate signal corps. Later, he and his brother Clifford served as pilots aboard English blockade runners. On one of these voyages, his ship was boarded. Refusing to take the advice of the British officers on board to don one of their uniforms and pretend to be one of them, he was captured. He was incarcerated in a military prison in Maryland, where he contracted tuberculosis (generally known as "consumption" at the time). He suffered greatly from this affliction for the rest of his life.
Lanier finally succumbed to complications caused by his tuberculosis on September 7, 1881, while convalescing with his family near Lynn, North Carolina. He was only 39. He is buried in Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore. Baltimore also honored him with a large and elaborate bronze and granite sculptural monument, created by Hans K. Schuler and located on the campus of the Johns Hopkins University. Sidney Lanier is considered to be the best southern poet of the late nineteenth century. A little FYI Lake Lanier (the largest lake in Georgia) was named for Sidney Lanier. Here is one of many of Lanier's poems.
This brief poem,one of Lanier's last,portrays the Saviour being fortified for His experience in the judgement hall and on Calvary by His time in the Garden of Gethsemane.
A Ballad Of The Trees And The Master
Into the woods my Master went,Clean forspent, forspent.Into the woods my Master came,Forspent with love and shame.But the olives they were not blind to Him,The little gray leaves were kind to Him:The thorn-tree had a mind to HimWhen into the woods He came.Out of the woods my Master went,And He was well content.Out of the woods my Master came,Content with death and shame.When Death and Shame would woo Him last,From under the trees they drew Him last:'Twas on a tree they slew Him -- lastWhen out of the woods He came.
~Sidney Lanier
We planted Pink,Red,White,and Yellow Dwarf Snapdragons.
Pink Dahlia
Zinnia
Dianthus
Summer Daisy's
The finished product
An Azalea plant in our back yard.
On the way home. Going over the Chesapeake Bay.
Have a great weekend!!!
This is our pen pal's cousin's home.
Below is our pen pal's home.
Here is their Old Order Mennonite church
One day while we were in MD we went for a drive on Solomon's Island. It is a very beautiful place!
More Pic's to come! (-:
Hope you all enjoyed these.This was our first trip to Pennsylvania, We absolutely LOVED it there! We got to visit with one of our pen pals while there.She was in Lancaster helping her older sister out with her two small children.They are Old Order Mennonites.They drive the horse and buggy's and they choose to live the "plain life". They were really nice to us,they welcomed us into their home for over 3 hours.we really enjoyed our visit.We didn't get any photos of them because they don't like having pictures of themselves taken.Old Order Amish and Mennonites forbid photography of their people, and their objection is based on the second commandment, Exodus 20:4: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth"."
We knew this before hand so we didn't even take our camera's that day.
Katie and I are fascinated by their way of life. We are so thankful that the Stauffer family counts us as their friend's, as we do them!
