http://redselchie.livejournal.com/ Secrets of a Selkie - LiveJournal.com Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:50:07 GMT LiveJournal / LiveJournal.com redselchie 72648 personal http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/35343123/72648 http://redselchie.livejournal.com/ 100 95 http://redselchie.livejournal.com/971346.html Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:50:07 GMT http://redselchie.livejournal.com/971346.html <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/funny/?action=view&amp;current=blog.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/funny/blog.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br /><br />If you can read this, post a comment so I know you read my blog ;) http://redselchie.livejournal.com/971346.html public 40 http://redselchie.livejournal.com/928815.html Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:37:17 GMT http://redselchie.livejournal.com/928815.html Thanks to a BRILLIANT suggestion from Tau, I now have a new website blog<br /><br /><a href="http://aheartsease.com/cominghome/" target="top"><b>The Prodigal Pagan</b></a><br /><br />or, for you LJ fans, you can subscribe to the feed here and have it show up on your FL:<br /><a href="http://syndicated.livejournal.com/prodigal_pagan/">http://syndicated.livejournal.com/prodigal_pagan/</a> <br /><br />I didn't get rid of the old site entirely, it's still there. I just won't be updating it, haven't for awhile, as a matter of fact.<br /><br />And since it is the public religious site, I'll probably be doing most of my religious musings over der. More private religious matters, ones I think are tooooooooooo personal to post on a public blog, I'll keep over here. Yeah. I'm wary that way.<br /><br />I am sunburnt from yesterday, and I have a whole new crop of freckles :( I got cramps, I still have the cruds, but at least one problem's been taken care of - what-to-do-with-the-website. Thanks Tau!<br /><br />Now, gotta do something with Michael's website. At least he likes what I've done so far. http://redselchie.livejournal.com/928815.html public 2 http://redselchie.livejournal.com/917012.html Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:13:41 GMT http://redselchie.livejournal.com/917012.html Springtime Tallahassee<br /><br /><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2154/2368467491_bd7911b23f.jpg?v=0"><br /><br />Cherokee Rose<br /><br />Actually took a lot of photos of our springtime - azaleas, dogwoods, wisterias, native crabapples. You can see them <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/redselchie/sets/72157604288888993/" target="top"><b>here on flickr.</b></a><br /><br /><center><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/redselchie/sets/72157604288888993/" target="top"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3286/2368604259_cbe509a9c0.jpg?v=0"></a></center> http://redselchie.livejournal.com/917012.html public 0 http://redselchie.livejournal.com/915832.html Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:34:11 GMT http://redselchie.livejournal.com/915832.html spring cleaning<br /><br /><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2168/2361710166_6894f203be.jpg?v=0"> http://redselchie.livejournal.com/915832.html public 2 http://redselchie.livejournal.com/851518.html Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:13:34 GMT http://redselchie.livejournal.com/851518.html <a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/friendsonly.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a><br /><br />Comment to be added http://redselchie.livejournal.com/851518.html public 0 http://redselchie.livejournal.com/155794.html Fri, 21 May 2004 22:18:57 GMT http://redselchie.livejournal.com/155794.html Oprah Winfrey once said that her dream was to find the plantation her ancestors lived on, and BUY it. Well I know which plantation my family came from, but I'll never have the money to buy it! Arvah Hopkins, my grandmother's grandfather, owned Goodwood during and after the Civil War. Family secret was, that he was a Yankee, and had to buy it to impress the family of the woman he wanted to marry.<br /><br />One thing interesting I found out, was that he married the daughter of John Branch, who was the territorial governor of Florida at that time. Our great, great, great grandfather (I think I got that right!) was Governor! <br /><br />I've never been to Goodwood, but when driving mom to get her radiation we would have to drive right by there. It's right behind the hospital. It's a museum now.<br /><br />My sister Jeanne was nice enough to take me to "Goodwood Cafe" for lunch, and afterwards we took a tour of the house. It was AWESOME! And they were very excited to have descendants of Arvah Hopkins come visit.<br /><br />They have little clippets from a book that Arvah's neice wrote, of her visits to Goodwood during it's heyday, placed all over the place.<br /><br />Anyway, here are the photos I took, eventually one day I'll put it up on a webpage. So if you've never toured a Southern Plantation, now's your chance. If for some reason they don't open, lemme know.<br /><p><br /><center><img src="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/goodwood.jpg"></center><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><br /><br /><br />Photos of Jeanne at lunch<br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0001.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0001.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0002.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0002.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0004.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0004.jpg</a><br /><br />Photos of me at lunch<br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0005.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0005.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0006.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0006.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0007.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0007.jpg</a><br /><br />photo of where we ate. The Cafe is located in one of the satelite houses, this one was the Pool Cabana, aka "The Rough House" because of all the wild parties that went on there during the roaring 20's.<br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0008.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0008.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0009.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0009.jpg</a><br /><br />Pictures of the "Pool" now "reflecting pond" with pergolas et al:<br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0011.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0011.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0013.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0013.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0014.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0014.jpg</a><br /><br />Various pictures of the flowers and plants and trees, including one HUGE oak:<br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0015.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0015.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0016.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0016.jpg</a><br /><br />Pictures of the seperate kitchen, now being used as the Gift Shoppe. I found the crescent moon shutters interesting!<br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0017.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0017.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0018.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0018.jpg</a><br /><br />Pictures of the pantry, including the "Dish warmer"<br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0019.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0019.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0043.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0043.jpg</a><br /><br /><br />The Formal Dining Room with UNbelieveable chandelier:<br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0020.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0020.jpg</a><br /> <a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0021.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0021.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0022.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0022.jpg</a><br /><br />The Foyer:<br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0023.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0023.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0024.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0024.jpg</a><br /><br />The Parlours, including the hand painted ceiling done by an artist from Rome:<br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0025.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0025.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0026.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0026.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0027.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0027.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0028.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0028.jpg</a><br /><br />The huge beds in the bedrooms:<br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0029.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0029.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0030.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0030.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0031.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0031.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0034.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0034.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0033.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0033.jpg</a><br /><br />Jeanne and I standing by photo of our great grandfather<br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0032.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/IMAG0032.jpg</a><br /><br />"Steps" for the bed that also doubled as a chamber pot:<br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/d0795a37.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/d0795a37.jpg</a><br /><br />Huge Dressing Mirror<br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/c022c87b.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/c022c87b.jpg</a><br /><br />Door to upstairs Veranda:<br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/31332d37.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/31332d37.jpg</a><br /><br />Views from the upstairs Veranda:<br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/b3039363.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/b3039363.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/c727a746.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/c727a746.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/1dccb8b6.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/1dccb8b6.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/d1cd6c55.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/d1cd6c55.jpg</a><br /><br />Stairwell with cubby & statue<br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/48f44d90.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/48f44d90.jpg</a><br /><br />back outside again, the Water Tower and Aviary:<br /><a href="http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/011069f9.jpg">http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v102/redselchie/goodwood/011069f9.jpg</a> http://redselchie.livejournal.com/155794.html public 2