Category: United States

Falling into November

Posted on by Annie

Here in the US, it’s that time of year when the clocks go back and hour and sunset starts coming way too early (It will be just after 5PM here in Oregon). So to make everyone feel a little bit better about Fall and the inevitable slide into Winter, here’s a few images from recent days. Yes, it really was that pretty on a walk at Champoeg (pronounced “Sham-POO-ee) State Park. Which was pretty much the only thing about the park that didn’t drive me nuts. It set a new personal record for number and variety of leaf blowers (five,…

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3 for Thursday: Beach

Posted on by Annie

Cold, gray days aren’t good for photography when it’s raining, but when it’s not… the camera comes out. I had a little fun yesterday and thought I’d share my three favorites from the photo walk. There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. Willa Cather

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Flight 93 National Memorial

Posted on by Annie

On a clear September day in 2001, Flight 93 took off from Newark, New Jersey at 8:42 AM ET, en route to San Francisco. It would never arrive there, instead crashing into a field in southern Pennsylvania at 10:03 AM.  Forty people onboard that plane fought terrorist for control, preventing it from crashing into the US Capitol in Washington DC. Seven crew members, 33 passengers, each of them a hero for choosing to fight back and ultimately die rather than see their flight become the fourth that horrible day to crash into an American landmark.  The Flight 93 Memorial is…

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National Museum of African American History and Culture

Posted on by Annie

On a beautiful day in Washington DC, I met up with two friends to visit the African American Museum of History. This would be the capstone to my civil rights tour, and I was hoping for a synthesis of all the history I had been studying, all the authors I had read the past winter and spring.  It was overwhelming in so many ways that a blog post is never going to be able to explain how I felt. It was all there laid out in a timeline of exhibits: the sad and sordid history of slavery, the promise of…

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