My Banner Photo

I love this template because it matches the coffee cup my son made me, but I haven't been happy with the header. I put a photo in last night. It still doesn't zing and pop, but it has a lot of meaning to me.

One of my hobbies is genealogy. This photo was taken in Kansas. The property is where my great-great grandparents moved to in the 1870s. They owned the section to the left. My grandmother was born there in the late 1800s. The house is gone, but I know some of the trees are the same. And the road...I look at that road and I know that my ancestors walked it many, many times. Directly behind me is the cemetery, where their baby daughter was buried. I know they traveled that road to visit her grave.

I can envision my great-grandfather as a child, running down the road. I can see him getting cleaned up and courting my great-grandmother. I say that as I sit at their kitchen table. This oak table has hosted meals for six generations, with more to come. I can only imagine the fat and calories this table has held!

I haven't worked on genealogy for some time. I miss it. I love traveling, walking cemeteries, searching records to see where my family lived. As I'm losing weight and feeling better, I know walking those cemeteries will become easier for me. Especially due to the fact I usually do this in the hot summer sun. I think to how my grandparents walked and walked. Even my mother was car-less with two small children, so she walked, too. Necessity. Now I hop in a car without thinking.

I think of them sometimes when I'm walking my dog at night. Something I force myself to do, which was something they didn't even think about: they just did it.

So the photo is a special part of me.