Window Views - More first Saturday

Here are three more window shots taken April 2 in Frederick.

My World - Fort Sumter

Approaching on the ferry

April 12, 2011 is the 150-th anniversary of the Battle of Fort Sumter that began a four yearlong civil war in the United States. In December 1860, South Carolina and six other states had seceded from the union and the governor demanded that all Federal troops withdraw from Charleston. Major Robert Anderson move his command to the island Fort Sumter. Maintaining the fort became newly elected President Lincoln's first crisis. When Maj. Anderson refused to surrender the fort, Confederate General Beauregard ordered the bombardment of Fort Sumter from shore batteries Maj Anderson surrendered the next day.

Fort Sumter is now a National Park. This year begins a sesquicentennial celebration, review, and reenactment of the Civil War. My hope is that this retrospective look backward will lead to resolve to solve those political, economic, racial and cultural differences that still cause much strife in the United States today.

These shots were taken in June 2006. I plan future Civil War themed posts in the future. There are many books on this war and much material is online. Photographs were taken and those of Mathew Brady are available from the National Archives.

Gun emplacement

Inside the walls

View toward Charleston

Flags, past and present

PhotoHunt - Trees in Spring

The trees on the National Mall in Washington, DC show their spring colors.

Sky Watch - April first skies

These were taken late afternoon as the clouds rolled in to start our April showers.

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Window Views - First Saturday in April

Grumpy

Beer Server

Boys in a window

Speciality shop

My World - Cherry blossoms

Last Tuesday I drove down to Washington to see the cherry blossoms along the mall. It was cool, overcast and the bloosoms were not fully open. But the display is still awesome.

Along Haines Point

Ohio Drive by the Potomac River

Near the Lincoln Memorial

PhotoHunt - Closed buildings

One building and two lots with facades in downtown Frederick have been closed for a long time. At the beginning of March, the properties were to be sold at auction. I have not heard whether the sale was completed and what the plans the new owners might have.