So we have had a few flurries of snow recently but it snowed all day yesterday. We must have had four or five inches and it makes everything look so clean and bright. It also deadens noise making everything so peaceful. Peaceful that is until all the adults get the sledges out for the kids, or at least that’s what they say! Big kids enjoy it more.
On with the under layers , coats, scarves and hats and out I ventured for another two and a half miler to Adel church. I wanted to capture it in the snow and I never tire of that place.
The last photo is of the grave stone for the children of James and Mary Anne Staples. Starting in 1848 ,Charles died aged 5, Alfred who died in the same year, just over three months later, aged 10months. Then in 1854 Sidney died aged 4 years old. In 1869 Rooney died, aged 16. Next, Ebeneezer succumbed in 1870 at the age of 14.
O my goodness, what tragedy befell this family. I will try to find out.
