I Miss You...



Pat Craig
12.11.36 – 12.31.08

Life’s race well run,
Life’s work well done,
Life’s victory won,
Now cometh rest.

-Edward Hazen Parker, M.D., Funeral Ode on James A. Garfield

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson




May you have a most blessed new year, Deidre

Merry Christmas to you and yours.

I invite you to print and read... A Christmas Pageant by Donna Tartt, a Christmas short story by one of my favorite authors.
The short story originally appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1993 and takes place in my childhood, when life was just a bit simpler.

Have a most blessed Christmas day and as Donna Tartt reminds us... Jesus is the true reason for the season and God does answers prayer!

God Bless, Deidre

Merry Christmas from the McNamara's.
Thanks to all those faithful viewers of my site.
May you have a most glorious Christmas Holiday and a blessed new year.

I invite you to view some of the sites and sounds of Christmas at my house.... CHRISTMAS

For You Pop...



Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God.
Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting,
and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
Karl Rahner

Have a blessed 3nd Week of Advent

Listening Angel
Grand Coteau, LA
Taken 11.9.2008


"Let us be silent that we may hear the whisper of God."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have a blessed 2nd Week of Advent

Whispering Angel
Grand Coteau, LA
Taken 11.9.2008


If trouble hearing Angels song with thine ears, try listening with thy heart. 
~Meriel Stelliger

Have a blessed 1st Week of Advent

Grand Coteau, LA
Taken 11.9.2008



Forever on Thanksgiving Day
The heart will find the pathway home.
Wilbur D. Nesbit

Have A Blessed Thanksgiving Week.


Schizophrenic
St. Francisville, LA
11.09.08



"Trees are schizophrenic now and beginning to lose control, enraged with the shock of their fiery new colors.
Someone – was it Van Gogh? – said that orange is the color of insanity.
Beauty is terror. We want to be devoured by it, to hid ourselves in that fire which refines us."

Richard Papen / The Secret History by Donna Tart

November's Bounty
St. Francisville, LA
11.09.08



"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
-  Albert Camus

Have A Blessed November Week.

All Souls Day

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.
-Rabindranath Tagore



Good night sweet prince:
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2

VOTE your FAITH !!! CHOOSE LIFE !!!

View from Below
Taken October 3, 2008



VOTE your FAITH !!!

Have a Blessed week.

October Yellow
Pollock, LA
10.18.08



Louisiana Autumn in all it's glory. Click for more.



VOTE your FAITH !!!

Have a Blessed week.

I am proud to introduce my antique booth, Mac-N-Trash, at Shared Treasures in Pollock Louisiana.
In addition to lots of fun, retro collectibles; you can purchase my original photography as featured on this site.
The holidays are just around the corner and I invite you to come shop.

Click on the logo below for more details.

Miss ya Ma....

Prayers for the USA.... God Bless America. Have a blessed autumn week.

A Memory, Dad's Shrine...

Louisiana Brown Pelican
Taken 9.17.08
Bulow Lake Pineville, LA




Also Visit my Photo.net page...

Have a blessed week...

Memories of our Beloved Galveston and Murdocks... gone with the wind 9.12.08.
Prayers for all the citizens of Galveston, Houston and all of Texas and South Louisiana.

Please click link below...



I will be in the stairwell of your final moments.

You say you will never forget where you were when you heard the news, Sept. 11, 2001.
Neither will I.
I was on the 110th floor in a smoke filled room with a man who called his wife to say "Good-Bye."
I held his fingers steady as he dialed. I gave him the peace to say, "Honey, I am not going to make it, but it is OK...I am ready to go."
I was with his wife when he called as she fed breakfast to their children.
I held her up as she tried to understand his words as she realized he wasn't coming home that night.
I was in the stairwell on the 23rd floor when a women cried out to me for help.
"I have been knocking on the door of your heart for 50 years!"
I said "Of course I will show you the way home - only believe in Me now."
I was at the base of the building with the Priest ministering to the injured and devastated souls.
I took him home to tend to his Flock in Heaven. He heard my voice and answered.
I was on all four of those planes, in every seat, with every prayer.
I was with the crew as they were overtaken.
I was in the very hearts of the believers there, Comforting and assuring them that their Faith has saved them.
I was in Texas, Kansas, London, everywhere in the world.
I was standing next to you when you heard the terrible news.  Did you sense Me?
I want you to know that I saw every face. I knew every name - though they did NOT all know Me.
Some met me for the first time on the 100th floor.
Some sought me out with their last breath.
Some couldn't hear me calling them through the smoke and flames, "Come to Me...this way...take my hand."
Some chose, for the final time, to ignore Me.
But, I was there.
I did not place you in the Tower that day - you may not know why, but I DO.
However, if you were there in that explosive moment in time, would you have reached for Me?
September 11, 2001 was not the end of the journey for you. But someday your journey will end.
And I will be there for you as well. Seek Me now while I may be found. Then at any moment, you know you are "ready to go."
I will be in the stairwell of your final moments.
Remember...I love you.

Gustav Pounds Petey
Taken Out My Kitchen Door During Hurricane Gustav
Alexandria, LA
9.1.08



Ike is on the way. One down one more to go.

God Please Bless Louisiana Again ...

Iron Crosses
8.23.08
Pineville, LA



May God Bless Louisiana...

Prayer for Safety in Hurricane Season

O God, Master of this passing world,
hear the humble voices of your children.
The Sea of Galilee obeyed Your order
and returned to its former quietude.
You are still the Master of land and sea.
We live in the shadow of a danger over which we have no control:
the Gulf, like a provoked and angry giant,
can awake from its seeming lethargy,
overstep its conventional boundaries,
invade our land,
and spread chaos and disaster.

During this hurricane season we turn to You, O loving Father.
Spare us from past tragedies whose memories are still so vivid
and whose wounds seem to refuse to heal with passing of time.

O Virgin, Star of the Sea, Our beloved Mother,
we ask you to plead with your Son in our behalf,
so that spared from the calamities common to this area
and animated with a true spirit of gratitude,
we will walk in the footsteps of your Divine Son
to reach the heavenly Jerusalem
where a stormless eternity awaits us.

Amen.

Crosses in the August Morning Light
8.23.08
Pineville, LA



Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. 
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Visit Protector of Souls Light and have a blessed day.

In addition to Photography, I enjoy collecting stuff. LOTS OF STUFF !!!
I plan to share my stuff with you over the weeks to come.
Start by viewing my Salt & Pepper Collection.
Have a blessed week.



Happy Cheese Salt & Pepper Shakers
Purchased at Shared Treasures in Ball.
One of 88 Sets in my collection.

Muscovy Duck
Taken: 8.1.08
Pineville, LA

Click on Duck to view comments and ratings on Photo.net

Thanks and have a Blessed Week. DMc

On July 9, 2008, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal signed a bill into law making the fleur-de-lis an official symbol of the state.
Below is one in the Old Rapides Cemetery located in Pineville, Louisiana. I photographed it in the evening light on a HOT evening last week.

Have a blessed week. DMc

We wake to another HOT, Dry Louisiana Sunday.
Yesterday morning I rose early to beat the heat and took a few more Flora shots to add to my collection.
It was a beautiful morning. A light breeze was in the air but I was still able to get a few macro shots.

Prayers go out to Aimee today.
Everyone have a blessed week. DMc

Remember when "Staycations" were Vacations?
Hope your Summer is going well. Have a Blessed Week.

Packing for Summer Vacation
(Figurine Part of My Collection)
Taken: 7.4.08

I am currently reading Catherine's Cadeau, coauthored by my cousin Terry Thibodeaux and illustrated by his son Mark Thibodeaux. The book references Evangeline (Poem by Longfellow, 1847) and prompted me to search my photos and find the shots I took in St. Martinville a few years back.

I am sure you will enjoy the novel it as much as I am. Have a blessed week.




Taken: 7.02.04
St Martinville, LA

Where flowers bloom so does hope.
- Lady Bird Johnson



Macro - Flower Rainbow
Taken 7.5.08
Pollock, LA


Visit My Photo.net page... and have a blessed week.

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
Michelangelo

Find your staircase in the Protector of Souls ...
Have a blessed week.

Summer Blooms
6.22.08
Pollock, LA


Grab that second cup of coffee, kick back, click on above photo and enjoy the beautiful flora set to some soft jazz.
Have a blessed week.

My Dad
Photo Both Photo
(No Date)
Found in Mom's Wallet



Happy Father's Day Daddy.
Miss you lots.
All My Love.

Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.




Miss you Johnny.
To live's to fly... Both low and high. Shake the dust off of your wings and the tears out of your eyes.

Have you ever wondered why plastic containers have holes?
So a large cat can take a nap, of course. Otherwise she wouldn't fit.



Stay cool and have a blessed week.

In memory of all lives lost for our FREEDOM. God Bless America. Have a blessed week.

Prayers for the victims of the local storms, the earthquake in China and the Myanmar Cyclone.
Have a Blessed Week.

Happy Mother's Day, Mom.

It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
Walker Evans

Memories of Walker
5.3.08



Have a Blessed Week.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Helen Keller

Have a blessed week.


Macro - New Spring Pine Needles
Taken 4.24.08
Pollock, LA

Tis a glorious day as the Pope is amongst us.
Thank you Holy Father for blessing this great country of ours.
God has bless us all.

Second Birth of Spring
Taken 4.7.08



Have a blessed week.

4 Crosses
4.6.08
Pineville, LA


Have a Blessed Week.

Pink March Azalea Petal
3.33.08
Pollock, LA

Have a blessed week.

Easter Vigil
St Francis Xavier Cathedral
Alexandria, LA



Have a blessed Easter Season.

A New Life With A White Cross
One Day Old Baby Girl
3.13.08

Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Were you there when they nailed Him to the tree?
Were you there when they laid Him in the tomb?
Were you there when He rose up from the grave?
Oh sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.....

Have a Blessed Holy Week

Ironwork in the Evening Light
Old Rapides Cemetery
Pineville, LA



For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Time to loose an hour. Hope you remembered to set your clocks forward. Have a blessed week.

Hanging out at the Zoo
Young Spider Monkey
Alexandria Zoological Park Alexandria, LA
Sunday Morning ~ 3.2.08


"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters
will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare.
Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."
  --  Robert Wilensky

Windsor Ruins at Dusk
Port Gibson Area, Mississippi
2.23.08



The Story of Windsor: 
Along a rural road which winds through valleys of land with kudzu vines and moss covered hardwoods you find many riches of Mississippi's history. Among those most cherished and visited today are the Ruins of Windsor. Windsor was built by Smith Coffee Daniell II, who was born in Mississippi in 1826, the son of an Indian fighter turned farmer and landowner. In 1849, he took Catherine Freeland for his wife and, together, they had three children. Just weeks after completion of the grand home, Mr. Daniell died at the age of 34.

The Fall of the House called Windsor: 
On February 17, 1890, fire broke out in the house after a house guest accidentally dropped a cigarette in debris left by carpenters making repairs to the third floor. All was destroyed except a few pieces of china and 23 of the columns, balustrades and iron stairs.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
Flannery O'Connor

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
Thomas Merton

Have a fun Mardi Gras... and a Fruitful Lent. Blessings for the week.

A Memory...

January 22, 2008, marks the 35th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s
landmark abortion rights decision Roe v. Wade.
Let Us Pray....



"The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty
in our century is extended to include
yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn."
John Paul II

Good night, sweet prince,And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! - William Shakespeare

Here is a new look for 2008. Enjoy.

I Pray you have a Happy, Healthy and Very Blessed 2008.

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

Florien, Louisiana
Taken 12.29.07
Have a blessed week.

No snow in Louisiana this Christmas but we did have a blanket of Frost both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.




M - I - C - K - E - Y Mouse

Remember All The Rudy's This Christmas...

Rudy lives on the borderline
Between civilisation and basic survival
The summertime treats him fairly well
But the wintertime is a bitter cold rival

It's wintertime now in Georgetown
And the streets come alive with the Christmas lights
And Rudy sleeps on the warm air grate
With a newspaper blanket
On December nights.

Deck the halls,
Rudolph the red-nosed wino knows it's Christmas time
Jingle bells and Christmas shoppers dashing through the snow
God bless ye merry gentleman
Who have found it in your hearts to flip Rudy a thin
Cuz I'll be home for Christmas
But this man has no place to go.

Christmas has no meaning at all?
These people of greed and incredible waste
Who seek the deeper meaning in a shopping mall
With a yuletide spirit of impatience and hate
Rudy is a patient man
Who tries to see the beauty in everything
Is not a very demanding soul
Whose only wish is to live until the spring

Nobody knows the reasons why
Things turn out the way they do
And there ain't no one to tell you the reasons why there's fortunate folks
like me and you
Rudy must have people somewhere who wonder what became of a man
And Rudy must wonder the same damn thing
As the crowd passes by and he sticks out his hand.

Rudy died on the borderline
Of a civilized world on Christmas Eve
And the shoppers shopped and the temperatures dropped
On a man whose absence won't be greived
Peace on the soul of the cop who found him
In a booth with his hand frozen to a telephone
Y'know, I think I know who he had on the line
And Rudy won't spend this Christmas alone.

Deck the halls,
Rudolph the red-nosed wino knows it's Christmas time
Jingle bells and Christmas shoppers dashing through the snow
God bless ye merry gentleman
Who have found it in your hearts to flip Rudy a thin
And I'll be home for Christmas
But this year Rudy gets to go
And I'll be home for Christmas
But this year Rudy gets to go

Lyrics for "Rudy" sung by The Good By Tanyas

A Blessed Christmas to All, Deidre

Happy Holidays To You !! Have a blessed Third week of Advent.

Remember the Reason for the Season. Have a great Advent.

Have a blessed week.

Stay warm and dry. Have a blessed week.

Have a safe & blessed Thanksgiving week.

A quiet spot beside the lake. Have a blessed week.

Louisiana slips into November while this butterfly clings to the last of summer.
Remember to set your clock back and enjoy an extra hour of sleep this weekend.
Have a blessed week.

Last week in October. Rich colors fill the autumn air. Have a blessed week.

Little house in the woods... Have a blessed week.

October's beauty abounds. Take a walk and enjoy... Have a blessed week.

Thank you all...

Prayer makes miracles alive even in modern days.
- Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

Thank you for your e-mail.
This just to let you know that your e-mail has reached us and that we are uniting with you in prayer of intercessions to Blessed Teresa. Mt 7:7; Mk 11:24; Lk 1:37!
Your petition will be placed on Mother Teresa’s tomb in Calcutta.

United in prayer
Sr. Elia MC

Prayers to the victims and their loved ones. Prayers for Mom.... I miss you so.

...today you shall be with Me in Paradise.


Have a Blessed Week.

I see music...

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.  ~Ansel Adams

Have a blessed week.

Andy Dufresne: That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you... Haven't you ever felt that way about music?

Red: I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.

Andy Dufresne: Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.

Red: Forget?

Andy Dufresne: Forget that... there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside... that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.

Red: What're you talking about?

Andy Dufresne: Hope.

Andy Dufresne: [in letter to Red] Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Have a blessed week...

Mary Mother of God protect and bless us on this day of sorrow.

God... Bless America today as always.

Tell me, Father, why is there so much pain and darkness in my soul?

Come Be My Light
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) Ten years with Christ, Ten years of Joy!

"If I ever become a Saint -
I will surely be one of 'darkness.'
I will continually be absent
from Heaven- to [light] the light of those
in darkness on earth."


Come Be My Light
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) Ten years with Christ, Ten years of Joy!

A Study In Iron cont'd...
Iron never looked so good as the weathered twisted metal that surrounds the graves of our ancestors in the Old Rapides Cemetery.
Have a blessed week.

A Study In Iron cont'd...
Iron never looked so good as the weathered twisted metal that surrounds the graves of our ancestors in the Old Rapides Cemetery.
Have a blessed week.

Convent, Louisiana
Post-Katrina / Rita Gulf Coast
Taken 8.1.07
Have a blessed week.

A Study In Iron cont'd...
Iron never looked so good as the weathered twisted metal that surrounds the graves of our ancestors in the Old Rapides Cemetery.
Have a blessed week.

A Study In Iron
Iron never looked so good as the weathered twisted metal that surrounds the graves of our ancestors in the Old Rapides Cemetery.
Have a blessed week.

I woke early to captured this hummer taking a break from feeding on the nearby flowers.
What a beautiful day it is.
Have a blessed week.

Have a blessed week...

Finally the rain stopped. Saturday was a great day for shooting. The evening ended with a beautiful sunset. A wonderful moment shared by this couple and my camera and I. Wow, what a moment !! Have a blessed week.

Happy Birthday Sasha... UR2 !!!

Week 4's assignment of my photography class involved panning of objects in motion. I caught this fast moving boat on the Red River for one of my assignment photos. I also gave my new extension rings a test drive. Have a blessed week.

To live's to fly…Both low and high. Shake the dust off your wings and the tears out of your eyes.

Miss you Johnny.

This is the second time I have featured Petey but the first for Sailboats.
This was one of the assignment photos for week 2 of my class.
Taken on the banks of Bulow Lake Pineville, LA – 6.8.07

Last Friday I started an 8-week online photography course. In assignment 1. I had to photograph something in motion. I have always wanted to be able to photograph water. So I accepted the challenge. The first obstacle was finding a flowing water source. Friday morning was overcast with a light fog blanketing the landscape. I veered off I-49 and snaked thru the back road boarding the beautiful Cane River. The runoff was flowing from the Cane River but with rain comes mud. I got the shots and after scraping a ton of mud off my jeans and shoes, Petey and I continued to drive alone the Cane River into Natchitoches. The fog had lifted and the sun was shining bright off the water. Rows and rows of corn stretched tall into the bright blue sky broken only by an old plantation home or a field of pecan trees peppered with horses and wildflowers. After freshening up in Natchitoches, Bach accompanied me back home ending a wonderful day of shooting.

Have a good week.

In memory of the fallen...

Cedar Hill Cemetery
Vicksburg, Mississippi

American Rose Center
Shreveport, LA
5.19.07

To all the Mothers who have spent sleepless nights by their children's bedside.
Have a blessed Mothers Day.

Miss you Mom...

Late Bloomer
Pollock, LA
5.5.07

Welcome home Lil' Petey!!!

Prayers for Virginia Tech.

Spring wildflowers...

Jesus Christ Is risen today, Alleluia!
Happy Easter

Have a blessed Holy Week...

Louisiana Pollen
Pollock, LA
3.18.07

Birth of Spring
Pollock, LA
3.18.07