Gleaning Facebook: Home from the Half-Marathon

Home from Tennessee and the Half Marathon where we strolled for 13.1 miles in a hot sun but a cool breeze with 33,000 of our closest friends. It was fun! Go to Lily's Garden and make a contribution to conquer childhood cancer. https://www.causes.com/fb/do

Terrell showing off his medal!

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Haley ran the Kids' race and was awarded this medal.

Three marathoners.

Comments

Deborah Shaw Lewis

LOVE this photo! Three gorgeous girls. . . I love all three of you.

Janice Shaw Crouse
Wow -- David's girls (minus the #1) Love those smiles -- beautiful young women!!!

Jessica Rogers
Wow...looking rough. 8am the morning after 13.1 miles is not a good time for pictures.

Beth Shaw
No it isn't Jess - but you are still adorable! All three of you are!

Ruth Baird Shaw
Beautiful! Where is my copy of that picture?

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Comments (on the full post):

Naomi Liles Crouse
Congratulations! Will enjoy hearing all about it once you've recovered!

Nancy Waters Carr
great job, what a wonderful thing to do

Joan Shaw Turrentine
Oh, I wanted to be there!!! Congrats to all you finishers!

Terrell Shaw
Thanks, Naomi, Nancy, and Joan!

Amanda Hearn Sims
I wish I could have been there! Wonder why they add the .1 mile as if 13 miles isn't long enough lol. I'm so proud of all of you for completing this challenge and for such a wonderful cause!

Terrell Shaw
Having refreshed my memory via Wikipedia:
The distance between Marathon and Athens that Phidippides ran, a few hundred years before Christ, was approximately 26 miles. Later when the modern Olympics came about the distance was changed several times and finally set at 26.2. The half marathon is therefore 13.1.
Ta-dah!

Susan Cherones
YAY YOU!

Terrell Shaw
Thank you Susan! Hope you are enjoying you new home.

Charmaine Yoest
Oh I so wish we could have been there!! Yay for Lily's Garden!

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We caught one of the remaining two kittens today. He (or she) is terrified. Delta is the remaining "free" kitten. The trap is out, I hope we catch her (or him) soon.

Comments

Carol Shaw Johnston

Ahhh - he/she looks just like Troy. We LOVE the two kittens you brought to us. We got Troy and Snowball a bed, food and water bowls, collars, tags, a litter box and toys today. I'm not much of an animal person, but I love these kittens! What do you figure their birthday is? Lillian said about 4 weeks ago - April 1st. What do you think?

Terrell

Very appropriate birthday. The joke was on me of course!! That's about right.

Deborah Shaw Lewis

Yeah! Delta may be terrified for a short period of time, until he/she discovers that being "caught" was the best thing to ever happen to her/him. Cute, cute kittens!

Terrell

This is not Delta... I have a pic of Delta but havent caught himer yet.

Deborah Shaw Lewis

Ahh, I should never get back up after midnight and write ANYTHING on the internet! So, what have you named this kitten?

 

Gleaning Facebook: At Carol's Place

Beth Shaw: Look how cute y'all are!

Snowball ... 

...is a climber.

Sheila cradles Troy

Haley hugs Snowball

Lily sports about her PawPaw's property...

 ...while Sophie and Haley bounce around in the back... 

...still celebrating their Star performances in the One Mile Run part of the Country Music Marathon activities.

Jane Baird Lathem: What a happy bunch! Lily looks a lot like her PawPaw!

My brother David

Gleaning Facebook: The Civil War

From Brian Sikes' Facebook:

The cast and crew of the CIVIL WAR.

Terrell Shaw as the Everyman Photographer. Brilliant performance by a super talented veteran of the stage. Here he sings " Brother My Brother".

 

Terrell Shaw: Wow, Brian, I am very honored by your appraisal. This is ne of my favorite shows too. You do such great directing --when it is time for Les Miz or Shenandoah or Fiddler I am more than ready!!We may have overdone the ruffled sleeves though. 

Brian Sikes: You can never overdo ruffled sleeves if they fit right!

Terrell Shaw: I think you figured out the problem. 

 

 

 

Gleaning Facebook: Carol's Wildflowers

 Carol and Ron have a beautiful 90 acres with lots of pretty wildflowers. Thanks to Richard Ware for helping to identify some of these plants.

Delphinium tricorne (Dwarf Larkspur)

Delphinium tricorne (Dwarf Larkspur)

All Delphinium species are poisonous so don't put it on your salad.

I suspect this is a jack-less Arisaema triphyllum, (Jack-in-the-Pulpit)? 

 A tiny Toxicodendron radicans (Poison Ivy) is at the bottom of the photo.

Some critter deposited eggs here for Haley and me to find under a fossil-filled rock. An amphibian, maybe?

I will guess Diervilla sp. (Bush Honeysuckle)?

Richard Ware
Terrell, I believe this is an introduced weedy species, Amur Honeysuckle (Lonicera mackii).

Terrell
I'm so sorry to discover this is an invasive. It hasn't yet overtaken Ron and Carol's property. Maybe they can eradicate it. Its flowers are pretty, but it can really crowd out everything else, judging from this: http://www.invasive.org/species/subject.cfm?sub=3040

Viola blanda, (Small White Violet)?
Richard Ware
If the flower stalks have no leaves you are probably correct, but if the stalk has leaves and flowers, it is probably Canada Violet (Viola canadensis).

This property is home to colony after colony of this pretty plant. Podophyllum peltatum, (Mayapple)

Richard Ware: This should be Great Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum appendiculatum).

Richard Ware: This should be Great Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum appendiculatum).

Richard: You're right Terrell, Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum).

Canada Violet (Viola canadensis)

Viola pubescens (Yellow Woodland Violet)?
Richard: Possibly, can't tell without seeing good leaf shot and whole plant.

Viola pubescens (Yellow Woodland Violet)?
Richard: I think you're correct!

Arisaema triphyllum, (Jack-in-the-Pulpit)

Arisaema triphyllum, (Jack-in-the-Pulpit)

Wild Comfrey (Cynoglossum virginianum).

Wild Comfrey (Cynoglossum virginianum).

Christmas Fern

Rattlesnake Fern (Botrychium virginianum).

Viola blanda, (Small White Violet)?
Richard: If the flowering stalk has leaves on it, it is probably Canada Violet (Viola canadensis).

Gleaning Facebook: Half Marathon

Before and after 13.1 miles

We arrived at LP Stadium before good light this morning.
Janice Shaw Crouse
What fun! I am so proud of all of you and can't stand it that I missed being there! You guys did great!!! Where are piks of David's family? Get those up, David!!

Looking fresh as a daisy.
Lillian Shaw
Mom! Lookin' gooooooood. 

relaxed and ready
Tammy Dehart
You looked ready for a marathon! Hope you guys had fun!

After, Ron and my Mother veg out at a tent erected for Lilly's Garden participants.

Lisette, Debi, and Sheila walk toward the 13 mle marker...

They break into a trot as they near...

...the...

...finish...

Carol Shaw Johnston: LOVE this photo!

...LINE!!!!
Carol Shaw Johnston: 
I actually got tears in my eyes looking at this photo! I'm so PROUD of their perseverance. YEA!!!

Jane Baird Lathem
I wish I had been able to walk with you. I am SO proud of all of you who walked for Lily! What a blessed little girl to have so many people who love her.

A well-earned medal ...

more medalists!

Hurray!
Marshall Jones: Good for you. I will be running the one in San J

Comments:

Naomi Liles Crouse
Congratulations! Will enjoy hearing all about it once you've recovered!

Nancy Waters Carr
great job, what a wonderful thing to do

Joan Shaw Turrentine
Oh, I wanted to be there!!! Congrats to all you finishers!

Terrell Shaw
Thanks, Naomi, Nancy, and Joan!

Amanda Hearn Sims
I wish I could have been there! Wonder why they add the .1 mile as if 13 miles isn't long enough lol. I'm so proud of all of you for completing this challenge and for such a wonderful cause!

Terrell Shaw

Having refreshed my memory via Wikipedia:

The distance between Marathon and Athens that Phidippides ran, a few hundred years before Christ, was approximately 26 miles. Later when the modern Olympics came about the distance was changed several times and finally set at 26.2. The half marathon is therefore 13.1. Ta-dah!

Susan Cherones
YAY YOU!

Terrell Shaw
Thank you Susan! Hope you are enjoying you new home.

Charmaine Yoest
Oh I so wish we could have been there!! Yay for Lily's Garden!