It’s been almost 4 months since my last post – and I don’t know about you – but I have to ask – where are the Courthouses?  Lots been going on this year – between relatives  health, Mother’s ‘living’ situation, 50th High School Reunion, big trip to Alabama, a couple of trips to Florida – maybe you get the idea.  On top of that, since the school year’s started – I’ve worked almost everyday I’ve been home.  This is a good thing – I’m trying to save up money for a bucket list item (trans-Atlantic cruise) and a new hearing aid!  This stuff doesn’t come cheap.

So – bottom line, we’ve not done any courthouses as of yet.  So, rather than let the site languish – I’ve decided to post some of the interesting photo sets from our Alabama and Michigan trips.  First up is Alabama.  We visited the Florence area of Northwest Alabama – the Quad Cities (Florence, Muscle Shoals, Sheffield and Tuscumbia).  They have an annual blues-Jazz fest in honor of local musician W. C. Handy.  See the world’s only Coon Dog Cemetery and a Frank Lloyd Wright house.  There’s lots in Tuscumbia including the Colbert County Courthouse, the Tuscumbia Train Depot Museum and the early Alabama Plantation home called Belle Mont.