Not one of mine, but still a great pic worth sharing!

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I just found out that historic structure located at Morris Brown College in Altanta, GA was designed by architect GL Norman. You can find more info here.

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I found this photo amongst my Flickr contacts. This is a poweful pic that just spoke to me. It reminds me of my own mortality but more importantly about my mother.

It also reminds me of funerals. Black American Baptist style funerals. I won't say that blacks are fascinated with death but it's probably one thing we are prepared for. Perhaps not financially or anything like that but certainly mentally blacks seem prepared for it. Or I could say there are those who don't believe they'll live a long time and they'll act the part, but not always.

Still I can express my complaints. Mainly the preaching and the organ playing. I know funerals contain those and there may not be much I can do about that. Still I think about the whole program for a funeral. At this point in time it's not very appealing. It is however a fact of life.

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For some reason I have gotten an interest in making beer. So I had to find this pic that I haven't seen in a while. Oh yeah and this video blog was what sparked my interest.

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Nighthawks by Edward Hopper and I heard not too long ago that as of last year this painting could be seen at the Art Institute of Chicago. I'm almost surprised that I hadn't posted this painting here yet.

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Actually I've had it for a good three months since I merged my Yahoo! Photos account with my Flickr account. It was decided that Yahoo! Photos would close for service and that Flickr would be the primary photo hosting website.

When I merged my Yahoo! Photos with Flickr I gained a "pro" account but that would last me three months I believe. On Oct 6th, I would have had to fork over some cash and that would have meant at least another year or two of being a "pro" account member. It would have cost $25 for a year or $48 for two years.

A "pro" account gives you unlimited storage, uploads, bandwith, photosets, permanent archives of high resolution pictures, and ad-free browsing and sharing. If you had a free account the basic benefits are that you can only upload 200 photos at a time. There was a bandwith limit per month. You can only create three photo sets. If you did continue to post after reaching the 200 photo limit you're pictures won't be visible among those 200 photos. In fact if you blog as I do or other wise post some pictures somewhere on the internet that's the only time you'll see that picture until you buy a "pro" account.

When I didn't have a "pro" account, what I do is delete those pictures that haven't gotten a lot of views. Save the ones with views or comments and I won't upload pics with any regularity. This summer that changed since I could reap the benefits of a "pro" account.

Now I have a "pro" account for as long as I take advantage of AT&T/Yahoo! DSL. Expect more uploads in the future and I hope that the Flickr badge you see at the bottom will see a different set of pictures when you visit. Though for right now, they're going to be what they are because I didn't thing to bring my usual point and shoot camera with me.

And I'm gonna figure out what my cell phone doesn't send or recieve text messages. As soon as I can figure that out I'm gonna post cell phone images onto Flickr as well. Of course even if I do I'll post picture directly onto this blog. That's what it's here for primarily.

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A couple of pics from my hotel room in well, Mississippi (Tunica/Robinsonville in fact). These are two good photos of the river. I have a couple of others for the other times we cross. Driving to at least Memphis we will cross the river at two points. Once into Missouri and next crossing into Memphis, Tennessee.

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In Cleveland, Mississippi. The country store that it seems unions and the more well to do fear and perhaps only because of the class of people they believe it attracts and the store is very anti-union.

This store is right in it's element in this small town. There's a Kroger down the highway. Kroger being a chain of supermarkets that you will frequently find in the south.

I don't think this was the Wal-Mart I made infrequent trips to over the years. This store seems more aesthetically pleasing than the store I remember. Even better this store seems to have a supermarket of its own. Like another Wal-Mart I visited in Olympia Fields, Illinois (that's the Chicago area).

Now it looks like Kroger's have some competion in the region known as the Mississippi Delta.

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I've been wanting to take a picture of a sign like this while I was down there, but unfortunately the car I was in was moving too fast. Better luck next time hopefully.

Anyway this sign is an indication of Mound Bayou, MS historical significance. This town was founded by ex-slaves and became an all black municipality having been incorporated in 1898. This is why I wanted to introduce this town to you.

Besides, I thought about this story I heard on cable access once where an old Irish talked about how since the Irish ran his ward in Chicago he thought the Irish ran the world. I have no doubt that some young kid in Mound Bayou thought that same way about the leaders he saw in Mound Bayou. He saw blacks on the city council and as mayor. Of course once he left this town, he would be very disappointed.

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Mound Bayou, Mississippi isn't much different than many small towns around the country, struggling. THat's not to say there aren't people around to help build stuff that can benefit the town. Take this facility built by a local church. It's very nice too.

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I couldn't get enough pics of the various signs and offices I saw down there over a week ago. For county board offices, sheriff, coroner, constable districts, prosecutors, governor, and the list goes on and on. I may post a few more pics of other political signs I saw down there. And in different places around town.

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If you accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior then you walk into this pit and a minister will immerse you in some water and then you are Baptized. We were right behind Jerusalem Baptist Church in Mound Bayou, Mississippi.

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This is going to be sweet potato. The actual crop is in the ground.


This is some cotton, but the plant hasn't bloomed yet.

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Next door to Wanderer's Home. Not very uncommon in that town. Especially if you have nothing but land to be able to do so.

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Wanderer's Home Missionary Baptist Church a country church in the farm fields of Mound Bayou,Mississippi. Next post will be of the graveyard next door.

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I consider myself something of a military buff, I don't know what kind of tank this is supposed to be. Perhaps someone can enlighten me.

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More pics from inside. I'm going to post some pics of the tank next stationed outside next.


This wall had clippings from the Bolivar Commercial with regards to Veteran's Day events in Bolivar County, Mississipi. The top center picture you see is of boxer Joe Louis. He must still be a hero in those parts.

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The Hut is also known as the Montgomery Green Post 220 of the American Legion. A place for the military veterans of Mound Bayou to go socialize. My folks had a cook out at this place. I'll post some interior photos as well.

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