Unca Darrell

JULY 13 / Dear Congressman Jeb Hensarling:

UNCA D recently got a letter dated "Thursday Morning" from Congressman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), finance chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

"Dear Friend," it began:

JULY 2 / Russell C. Shaw, award-winning sports photographer

MY PAL, Rusty Shaw, took up photography to shoot kids' sports. Then something surprising happened. He got good at it. Very good.

Now . . .  

JUNE 30 / Kodachrome (1936-2009)

KODACHROME gets a nice obit from the Wall Street Journal. Good bits:

[Kodachrome's] demise calls for a send-off more ceremonial than just a quote from the Paul Simon lyric.

JUNE 25 / David Edgar Hancock (March 26, 1970 - June 25, 2000)

IN 1999 -- a lifetime ago, it now seems -- four Kingwood High School students, young women, started robbing convenience stores. They called themselves the "Queens of Armed Robbery."

JUNE 4 / Yeti sighting on the Brazos

BOB Dunn's Brazos Riverblog ("Trials and Tribulations of a Semi-South Texas Fruit Farmer") lists Unca D on its blogroll this way:

MAY 26 / Year One is in the can

UNCA DARRELL's first post was May 24, 2008 -- an image of ephemeral folk art in Smut Eye, Alabama, soon followed by this image, this one, and yet another.

These were experiments, to see how this blogging thing worked. In the next year I would post more than 700 times, mostly about journalism and politics. Now it's time to evaluate the year and decide whether to continue.

Six points:

APRIL 27 / No posting today: Unca D is funeralizing.

APRIL 22 / More Garrison in the News

FROM Garrison in the News, March 26, 2009:

• Every week GITN features a page-one picture of Lexie Nichols, a beautiful preschooler who has endured and prevailed -- week by week -- over cancer. This week she is pictured smiling broadly in a flower-girl dress. "Proverbs 15:13 reads, 'A happy heart makes the face cheerful.'" (Cutline)

APRIL 17 / More from "Garrison in the News"

FROM Garrison in the News, January 29, 2009:

PAGE ONE: Jo Ann Barton, "January Joys and Sorrows," a profile of Bro. Travis Lunsford and wife Lavernie. The heart of the story is an account of the death of their son.

Darrell Lunsford was shot and killed while on a traffic stop. [He] found marijuana in the trunk of the . . . vehicle. The three suspects then jumped Constable Lunsford and shot and killed him with his own service weapon. 

MARCH 30 / Slowblogging the news

UNCA DARRELL (the real one) has a new and very interesting project on the workbench. Until further notice I'll cut my blogging to one item a day, at most, posted overnight or in the early daylight hours. Once you see it, you're dismissed for the day. And if you don't see it then, it ain't coming.