Today was the kindergarten graduation for my school. My older daughter, seen above, was given the American Citizen Award. We're really proud. :)
Daily Photos of Van Buren, Arkansas
From: Van Buren, Arkansas, United States
About me: The author of "Tangled in Wisteria," he is a music teacher in Van Buren, Arkansas and a father of four. His work has been published in the United States, Canada and Australia, including Haiku Harvest, Clouds Peak, Stylus Poetry Journal, Wisteria, American Tanka, Fire Pearls, Eucalypt and Modern English Tanka.
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Thursday, May 31, 2007,7:12 PM
kindergarten graduation
Today was the kindergarten graduation for my school. My older daughter, seen above, was given the American Citizen Award. We're really proud. :)
Wednesday, May 30, 2007,7:44 PM
squirrel
Spent some time by the river today and saw someone else that seemed to be having a good time. :)
Tuesday, May 29, 2007,6:16 PM
lake
This was taken yesterday at the city park. It's back to raining again today.
Monday, May 28, 2007,7:00 PM
Memorial Day
This is the view looking down the hill to my house. Perfect weather for Memorial Day.
Sunday, May 27, 2007,7:13 PM
rides
Yet another festival in Van Buren! This one is in the north part of town for the holiday. Looks like fun.
Saturday, May 26, 2007,7:57 PM
view
On the way to down town I now see this -- a better view of the hill back behind this house. There used to be a garage here, but it has been torn down. I kind of hope that nothing new is built there.
Friday, May 25, 2007,9:15 PM
my music
Another day without a photo. Instead, I'll have something video-wise. This is me playing my own music on my piano. It was first seen with a tanka on my other blog, Past Tense, a few days ago.
Thursday, May 24, 2007,8:58 PM
boat
The photo I took today ended up bad, so I'm using one that I took a few weeks ago. Looks the same today, too.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007,4:03 PM
Egypt
The art teacher at our school did a program based on the ancient Egyptians. She made this, among many other things, and it stands in the corner of her class. It's as tall as me, so maybe I should use one of these when the time comes. :)
Monday, May 21, 2007,4:11 PM
Babylon
The kids at our church performed a musical called "Survivor Babylon." My son played King Nebuchadnezzar. Yes, that's his face on this!
Saturday, May 19, 2007,9:56 PM
goose
This was my visitor today at the river. I was there to do some writing, but he had other plans. :)
Friday, May 18, 2007,6:48 PM
Flex Day
Today we had what was called Flex Day. The kids spent most of the day outside doing things like this. They loved it. Counting down the days now. :)
Thursday, May 17, 2007,9:11 PM
squirrel
The warmth is back. I felt it and so did this squirrel - sitting in the shade. :)
Wednesday, May 16, 2007,6:37 PM
UAFS
Today I had to go over to UAFS and the weather was wonderful. Nothing important in the picture -- just a view from my walk.
Monday, May 14, 2007,10:11 PM
sky
I was bored at the game tonight and looked at the sky. I really liked the look of it.
By the way, the game got really interesting later. :)
Saturday, May 12, 2007,7:10 PM
new robin
Today is the first day that I saw one of the new robins. This was the best picture I could get, but I'm looking forward to when all of them are born. I have to be careful, though, because I don't want to bother them.
Friday, May 11, 2007,6:33 PM
clouds
We had sunlight for a while. As you can see, the dark clouds rolled in this afternoon. It hasn't stopped raining since then. I can't complain, though. We aren't having any flood problems and we're not having the fire problems, like in other places.
Thursday, May 10, 2007,6:48 PM
baseball
Once again - spending my night at the baseball field. This is a game that was going on behind me. There's around 10 fields there. Looking at the sky, you can see that the bad weather hasn't backed off at all.
Wednesday, May 09, 2007,3:27 PM
Man Street Festival
They're setting up the rides for this weekend's Main Street Festival. It's fun to look at it, but I don't think I'm brave enough to get on a ride that was just put together and will soon be taken apart. :)
Tuesday, May 08, 2007,9:56 PM
sunshine
Finally, sunshine! We've had storms and rain for a few days, even this morning, but it started to clear off this afternoon. Hopefully we'll dry out some.
Monday, May 07, 2007,6:31 PM
track day
We were supposed to go to the high school track today with the school kids, but as you can see, the weather ended that. This photo was taken right before the rain started. It never stopped until tonight.
Sunday, May 06, 2007,7:12 PM
windows
I've always been fascinated by things like this --- windows covered up. Is it keeping us from seeing something, or is it keeping people inside from seeing outside? Who knows?
Saturday, May 05, 2007,8:32 PM
scissor-tail flycatcher
I saw a scissor-tail flycatcher today. Haven't seen one for a long time. This was the only way I could get a shot- at the top of a telephone pole.
Thursday, May 03, 2007,6:56 PM
weather
The bad weather doesn't seem to want to leave. This is what it looked like coming over the bridge from Ft. Smith to Van Buren. Not a great shot, but I was going pretty fast. :)
Wednesday, May 02, 2007,10:08 PM
bagpipe
I'm playing the instrument of the week. Getting better with it. I can now play the Flintstones theme song on it. I try to do that on all instruments that I show them -- now I can do it on 22 different instruments. I need to put that on my resume. :)
