My Great-Great Uncle FRANCIS J. KIERNAN of the #UNIONARMY 40th NY Infantry fought at #GETTYSBURG #WILLIAMSBURG #FREDERICKSBURG #CHANCELLORSVILLE #BULLRUN & over a dozen other battles to DEFEAT THOSE TRAITORS! I am his namesake - FRANCIS J. BREEN. I WILL NOT LET THOSE MONUMENTS STAND! #MARKMYWORDS !
MINUTE WALK IN HISTORY: #Chancellorsville 160th Anniversary. Watch our coverage of the Ranger walks and talks, plus narration from soldiers on the field. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLzd... @cwbc.bsky.social @battlefields.org @civilwarhistory.bsky.social
Some of the letters I discuss in "Green & Blue" survive because the men who wrote them were killed on this day in 1863 at Chancellorsville. Among them were those of Tyrone native James Kerr, who described himself to those at home as a "soldier battling for his countrys rights". #Chancellorsville
Inverted turtle shell filled with rain water
Good morning! Turtle Shell Pond! A critter must have turned the shell upside down on PebbleHenge and it got filled with rain water. Nice. Now I need a pic of a bird drinking from it.
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #TurtleShell #Nature #Garden #Chancellorsville #Virginia
Tree stump decorated with rocks and a turtle shell on top with an image of kokopelli in front
Good morning, relocated PebbleHenge to Finn's Ferns...
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #PebbleHenge #Kokopelli #Garden #Silly #Rocks #Stones #Pebbles #Turtleshell #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia
Bluebird hatchling in nest with beak wide open for food
Good morning, hungry bluebird hatchling! One or two days old :)
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #Bluebird #BabyBird #Nature #Hatchling #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia
Sundial on an old tree stump with the sunrise in the background
Good morning! Sunrise is right on time 🌞
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #Sundial #Sunrise #Time #Nature #Garden #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia #GoodFriday
Small white frog statue on a step in the garden at sunrise
Good Morning! It's almost like he knows grandkids will be here this weekend...
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #Frog #Garden #Sunrise #Statue #Fun #Nature #Spring #Grandkids #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia
Milkweed shoots growing
Good morning, milkweed! In Milo’s Meadow 🙂
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #Milkweed #spring #garden #Nature #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia
Single blossom on a witch alder bush
Good morning, witch alder… One of my favorites
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #WitchAlder #Fothergilla #Garden #Blossom #Spring #Nature #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia
Birdbath with a layer of ice with sunrise in the background and a thermometer with an image of Kokopelli
Good morning! Ice on the birdbath this morning. (ignore the kokopelli thermometer - it hasn't worked in awhile :) )
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #Ice #Birdbath #Sunrise #spring #kokopelli #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia
Blossom on a paw paw tree
Blossom on a paw paw tree
Good morning! MY FIRST EVER PAW PAW BLOSSOMS! :D There should be a paw paw fruit growing inside each of those. I'll keep you posted. :) The tree is 12' tall now. I planted it 4 years ago.
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #PawPaw #Spring #FruitTree #PawPawPatch #Chancellorsville #Virginia
Garden and blooming dogwood tree in the rain
Good morning, pollinator garden
(And dogwood tree 🙂 )
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #PollinatorGarden #Nature #Garden #DogwoodTree #Blossom #Spring #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia
Closeup of Pink cherry tree blossoms
Two pink cherry trees blossoming
Two pink cherry trees blossoming
Good morning, Pink Cherry trees! The pink cherries always bloom a week or two after the white one. Sadly, I missed the white one while we were traveling.
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #PinkCherryTree #CherryTree #Blossoms #Spring #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia
Good morning, bleeding hearts
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #BleedingHearts #Garden #Spring #Nature #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia
Good morning! Those bluebirds were busy while I was gone 😀 🪺
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #Bluebird #Nest #Egg #Spring #Brood #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia
Good morning, Bluebells...
Finally back home to the gardens. Got a ways to go before the "bluebell wood" comes to fruition but it's a start! :)
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #Bluebells #BluebellWood #Garden #flower #Nature #Spring #KokopelliGarden #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia
Good morning, pollinator garden! Daffodils are up marking the path..
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #Daffodils #GardenPath #Flowers #Garden #Sunrise #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia
Good morning! There’s a mighty chilly turtle out there somewhere
Actually, one of my kids found a shell like this 30 years ago when we first moved in. That’s why it’s called ‘Turtle Shell Trail’ today 🙂 🐢
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #Turtle #TurtleShell #Nature #Trail #Chancellorsville
Good morning, woolly hedgenettle! (also called lamb's ear, but I like the woolly name better)
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #WoollyHedgenettle #LambsEar #Garden #Nature #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia
Good morning, hyacinth
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #hyacinth #Garden #Nature #Spring #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia
Good morning, elderberry
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #Elderberry #Leaves #Spring #Nature #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia
Good morning!
"There she sits aloft at perch. Strangest color blue." - Stephen Stills/Buffalo Springfield
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #Bluebird #Spring #Bird #Blue #Perch #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia #Nature #StephenStills #BuffaloSpringfield
Good morning, mountain laurel. An homage to Pennsylvania roots... It'll be awhile before it blooms, but it's nice to see it's getting ready
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #MountainLaurel #Pennsylvania #Garden #Nature #Flower #Buds #Spring #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia
Good morning, hellebore!
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #Hellebore #Garden #Spring #Nature #Flower #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia
Good morning! Cafe Light Sunrise
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #Flashes #BlueSky #CafeLights #Sunrise #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia
Good morning! Sunrise
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #Sunrise #Barn #morning #Nature #Winter #Trees #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia
Good Morning!
Last little bit of snow down at the PawPaw patch
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #Snow #Stump #Trees #PawPawPatch #BlueSky #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia
Good morning! Chilly (20°) sunrise over PebbleHenge
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #PebbleHenge #Sunrise #Cold #Winter #Trail #Pebbles #Nature #Stump #Rocks #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia
Good morning! Up and at 'em early today. Resigned myself to the fact that I'll never photograph the moon well. :)
#MorningWalk #GoodMorning #Moon #Winter #Sky #Trees #Morning #Chancellorsville #SpotsylvaniaCounty #Virginia