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Welcome to my personal blog. I enjoy researching our family history, photographing nature, and collecting words and pictures. After living by the sea in southeastern Connecticut for forty-seven years, the Piedmont of North Carolina has become my new home.
~ Barbara Rodgers

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Life is death we're lengthy at, death the hinge to life.
~ Emily Dickinson

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Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled – to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.
~ Mary Oliver

Words & Pictures

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its own focus.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Family History Pages

*Our Ancestors
Atwood, Barnabas & Lydia Shurtleff
Atwood, Ebenezer & Waitstill Lucas
Atwood, Ichabod & Hannah Shaw
Atwood, John & Sarah Masterton
Atwood, Nathaniel & Abigail Shaw; Mary Adams
Atwood, Nathaniel & Mary
Atwood, Nathaniel & Zilpha Shurtleff
Atwood, Reuel & Abigail Savery Tillson
Atwood, Reuel Gardner & Louisa Jane Atwood
Atwood, Samuel & Patience Cobb
Baker, Benjamin & Eliza R. Eldridge
Bartlett, Benjamin & Ruth Peabody
Bartlett, Benjamin & Sarah Brewster
Brewster, Jonathan & Lucretia Oldham
Brewster, Love & Sarah Collier
Brewster, William & Mary
Case, Aaron Newton & Laura Amanda Roberts
Case, Hermon Roberts & Paulina Elizabeth Minor
Chomiak, William & Katherine Fusiak
Crowell, Joseph & Sarah Howes
Flanzer, Moritz Kalman & Sadie Roth
Freeman, Edmund & Bennett Hodsoll
Freeman, Edmund & Sarah Mayo
Freeman, Edmund & Sarah Sparrow
Freeman, John & Abigail Hopkins
Freeman, John & Mercy Prence
Freeman, Jonathan & Thankful Linnell
Freeman, Thomas & Roxanna Cash
Freeman, Warren & Elisabeth Weekes
Fusiak, Konrad & Ludmila Karasek
Hamblin, William & Amanda Bearse
Hamblin, William Nelson & Annie Eliza Baker
Hamilton, Andrew & Marie Chalmers
Hamilton, Benjamin & Rachel Gardner
Hamilton, Charles Amos & Gertrude Mabel Hubbard
Hamilton, Charles Munson & Eliza Ann Devoe
Hamilton, John & Elizabeth de Peyster
Hamilton, Stephen
Hamilton, William & Nellie Hurd
Hill, Robinson & Lydia
Hill, Rufus & Lydia White
Hopkins, Giles & Catherine Whelden
Hopkins, Joshua & Mary Cole
Hopkins, Joshua & Priscilla Curtis
Hopkins, Joshua & Rebecca Sparrow
Hopkins, Stephen & Mary
Howes, Jeremiah & Mary Daggett
Howes, Jeremiah & Sarah Prence
Hubbard, Delorma Brown & Emma J. Pridmore
Hubbard, Eliphalet & Abigail Johnson
Hubbard, John & Lydia P. Randolph
Hubbard, Joseph & Elizabeth Hollister
Hubbard, Joseph & Mabel Sutlief
Huntley, Aaron & Mary Champion
Huntley, Asher & Betsey Wilder Tiffany
Huntley, David & Mary Munsell
Huntley, Ezekiel & Naomi Tiffany
Huntley, John & Jane
Huntley, Leonard & Hannah Wheeler
Huntley, Loren Grant & Mary Jane Fowler
Koyl, Ephraim & Abigail Redding
Kyle, John & Agnes
Kyle, John & Mary
Lucas, Caleb & Asenath Shurtleff
Minor, Ezekiel & Margaret Beckwith
Minor, Joseph & Grace Turner
Minor, Martin & Elizabeth Davis
Minor, William & Naomi Reniff
Murdock, John & Ruth Bartlett
Nickerson, Joshua & Thankful Eldridge
Prence, Thomas & Patience Brewster
Pridmore, Abraham & Elizabeth Bramston
Pridmore, William & Anna Sturgess
Randolph, Abram & Jane Koyl
Raven, Henry Charles & Clarinda Sweet
Raven, Marion Case & Catherine Alta Verplanck
Raven, Peter & Rachel Groom
Raven, Peter George & Sabrina Cummins
Raven, William Franklin & Elona Naomi Case
Roberts, Lemuel & Ruth Woodford
Rodgers, Elijah & Zipporah Ann Horton
Rodgers, George Lincoln & Mary Jane Rodgers
Rodgers, Jacob & Mahala Bedford
Rodgers, Neadom & Hanorah O’Brien
Shaw, Elkanah & Elizabeth Atwood
Shurtleff, Abiel & Lydia Barnes
Shurtleff, Barnabas & Jemima Adams
Shurtleff, Francis & Mary Shaw
Shurtleff, William & Deborah Ransom
Shurtleff, William & Elizabeth Lettice
Shurtleff, William & Ruth Shaw
Shurtleff, William & Susanna Lothrop
Sparrow, Jonathan & Hannah Prence
Sparrow, Richard & Mercy Cobb
Sweet, Josiah & Eunice Day
Thompson, Elias & Elizabeth Davis
Thompson, James & Mary
Thompson, Martin & Ann Isabella Hughs
Thompson, Martin Edward & Elisabeth Emma Freeman
Thompson, Martin Freeman & Amanda Eliza Hamblin
Tillson, Ichabod & Azuba Thomas
Tillson, Stephen & Janet Murdock
Tønnes Ingebretsen & Kristin Kristensdatter
Tønnesen, Hans Mathias & Dorthea Larsdatter
Turner, Ezekiel & Susanna Keeney
Turner, John & Mary Brewster
Verplanck, George Washington & Ermina Huntley
Weekes, Ammiel & Phebe Small
Weekes, George & Deborah Wing
Weekes, Isaac & Elisabeth Allen
Weekes, Isaac & Thankful Nickerson
White, Austin & Lucy Ann Thompson
White, Oliver & Lydia
White, Samuel Minor & Emma Flora Atwood
White, William Martin & Ellen C. Hill

© 2010-2025 Barbara Rodgers

Category: Sunday

silent sunday

4.25.25

Posted on April 27, 2025April 25, 2025Categories Bolin Forest, SundayTags birdhouses, carolina chickadee, chickadee, home, spring, tyranny19 Comments on silent sunday

silent sunday

2.7.25

Posted on February 9, 2025April 6, 2025Categories North Carolina Botanical Garden, SundayTags eastern gray squirrel, gardens, meadowsweet, ozark witch-hazel, spirea, squirrel, tyranny, virginia spiraea, winter, witch hazel29 Comments on silent sunday

silent sunday

1.7.25

Posted on January 12, 2025January 7, 2025Categories North Carolina Botanical Garden, SundayTags downy woodpecker, gardens, landbirds, winter, woodlands, woodpecker17 Comments on silent sunday

silent sunday

9.4.24

Posted on September 8, 2024September 4, 2024Categories Cedar Falls Park, SundayTags autumn, eastern gray squirrel, parks, squirrel, woodlands27 Comments on silent sunday

silent sunday

6.1.24

Posted on June 9, 2024June 8, 2024Categories North Carolina Botanical Garden, SundayTags butterfly, dragonfly, gardens, great blue skimmer, sandhill thistle, spicebush swallowtail, summer, swallowtail, thistle25 Comments on silent sunday

silent sunday

4.9.24

Posted on April 21, 2024April 10, 2024Categories Bolin Forest, SundayTags azalea, home, rain, spring20 Comments on silent sunday

silent sunday

2.22.24

Posted on March 3, 2024February 29, 2024Categories North Carolina Botanical Garden, SundayTags carolina chickadee, chickadee, gardens, songbirds, winter18 Comments on silent sunday

silent sunday

1.26.24 ~ Fred

Posted on February 4, 2024January 29, 2024Categories Bolin Forest, Fred, SundayTags dogwood, eastern gray squirrel, flowering dogwood, home, squirrel, winter19 Comments on silent sunday

silent sunday

1.19.24 ~ Fred (photo by Tim)

Posted on January 21, 2024January 20, 2024Categories Bolin Forest, Fred, Sunday, TimTags eastern gray squirrel, home, squirrel, winter41 Comments on silent sunday

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