Lonesome Dove[s]...

Something old...


A Military Wedding Portrait
Aunt and Uncle [my father's sister]
circa: 1940-44
Uncle was shot down in a B-17 over the English Channel - he was a 'belly gunner'. A metal plate was placed on his brain where the injuries occurred...
...Many years later died of this very injury. Many years, my aunt was a single parent of three boys...a lonesome dove
Linking to: Rubbish Tuesday

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Tho these birds are plentiful all over the country, there are several different species of the same family. I'm talkin' doves. Here in my part of Texas, the most abundant and widely seen everywhere is the White Winged Dove [1]...mainly, their habitat scans only the southern tip of Texas, west to the Arizona Sonoran Desert. The Mourning Dove [2], on the other hand, is widely dispersed throughout North America, parts of Southern Canada and into Old Mexico. Thing is, they are scarcely seen here in my part of Texas so it's a thrill for me to actually hear one singing in the morning hours...which occurred a few weeks ago from our roof top!! Then, the Inca Dove [3]. Again, this is a southwestern dove. Spotted mostly in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and the southernmost tip of California within the boundaries of the United States. Also, they flourish in Old Mexico. All the above mentioned birds are monogamous...mating with ONE of its kind for life.  There are two other doves in Texas but very rare in some areas...the ground dove and the eurasian collared dove.

White Winged Dove


Mourning Dove


Inca Dove

linking to: Nature Notes, Wild Bird Wednesday, Our World Tuesday

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HODGEPODGE
linking to: Wednesday Hodgepodge

TAKE NOTICE No, I don't 'ask' the questions... Au contraire!! Our fearless leader for Wednesday Hodgepodge is Joyce [see 'linking to' above]...she works long and hard to make this linking party [meme] come to reality. I just participate. Now, on with Joyce's questions and my answers for this week:

1. What summer activity most takes you back to your own childhood? Picnics in the park.

2. What's your favorite summer smell? Rain

3. It's beach season in the U S of A...so how do you feel about sand? Love it...wet sand, walking on the beach, is a great exfoliate!! [sand sticks everywhere....but, dear man of mine...Bud cleans it up in the car all the time]

4. Sun tea, SunChips, sunflower seeds, Capri Sun, Sunny Delight, Sun-Maid raisins, sun-dried tomatoes...your favorite food or beverage with sun in its name? Hot Fudge SUNdae.

5. What's your favorite way to cool off on a hot summer day? Stand under the A/C vent for a while.

6. Share a favorite song with the word sun or sunshine in it's title.  Only ONE? My goodness, I can name that tune in 3 notes. But wait. I love a lot of sunny songs...Sunrise Sunset played by Roger Williams on the piano...You Are the Sunshine of My Life [Stevie Wonder]...Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows [Lesley Gore -or is it Leslie?]...Walking in the Sunshine [Roger Miller] ---oh, so many. But I do stop what I'm doing when I hear this song:
Sunshine on My Shoulders
by John Denver
listen HERE

7. Tell us about a time you had an exceedingly good or truly awful customer service experience. If it was awful, did you report it? Ever go back there again? I've had 'em both. It's almost like a culture shock in today's times to have GOOD customer service!! Bad customer service for me would be a pharmacist telling me that generic brand meds are the very same as brand name meds - and my side effects from generic was all in my head...when the name brand worked wonderfully withOUT side effects. Calling my physician, they told me the generic had added potassium which the brand name didn't....and yes, I called the AMA on the pharmacist and also wrote a complete report on his demeanor. It was NOT all in my head. They are different as you'd expect. Not even the same ratio of drugs in the same mg dosage.

8. Insert your own random thought here. A mini-series of the Old West that was based on a best selling book and Pulitzer Prize Winner, by Larry McMurtry, was my blog post title inspiration. LONESOME DOVE. I knew, from the past that for the most part, filming of this took place in Texas. The Moody Ranch to be exact near Del Rio, Texas. Also, it has been referenced on an online forum that there actually was a Lonesome Dove, Texas - that it was not a fictionalized town. I can't find any other references tho, other than these: Lonesome Dove Village, Lonesome Dove Church/Lonesome Dove Cemetery.

source=Lonesome Dove Cemetery [Texas] from Find A Grave site shows 777 internments
source=wikipedia
source= Forum....quoting "Under the Texas Sun, 1986 Ms Anna Manns Dana documents first hand accounts of her Grandfather Malcolm Graham Vernon and members of her family who moved to North Texas in 1862. She states in her book, "(Her) Grampa decided that Mama would sell the store and her farm and move with the Family to a community near Grapevine called Lonesome Dove." Note: Many small communities in Texas changed their names or lost thier identity completely as they were incorporated into larger towns and as the larger towns grew. Frequently the church drew its name from the town and the cemetery drew its name from the church."