Thought I would dig back into the photo archive for this post since Jerry is mowing and the noise is keeping me from the garden. These photos are from my days as a
RAINBOW GIRL . I posted these on my MySpace page and alumni from Jonesboro High School not only recognized and recalled names but also knew some of these "girls" today! by the way - I made both of the dresses I am wearing in these photos :)
This top photo would have been taken at the beginning of my sophmore year in high school. Usually these type of photos were taken at either officer instillations or new member intitiations - I don't recall for sure. I am second from the left on top row and wearing yellow because that is the station I held at the time. The yellow represents nature.
In this photo I am second from right on middle row; however, there is a flaw in the photo and it is on me (LOL) so I look funny. I am wearing green because I held the position representing immortality. This photo wa staken at the beginning of my junior year in high school. Vickie
Crossing the Mississippi at Memphis. Couldn't take my eyes off the road to snap a photo of the muddy water.
Bypass near Hardy Arkansas. The town road is so narrow that large trucks were knocking the side mirrors off cars so they blasted through the moutains to make this road to bypass the little town. The town is a shopping Mecca - full of antiques and quaint stores.
The school where my mom and her siblings went to school in Paul's Switch near Bono Arkansas. I couldn't get close enough to get a photo where you can read the name etched in the arch above the door opening - it was just too muddy. My Aunt Joyce said there are three different rooms in the school. (Paul's Switch is not to be confused with Ponder Switch which the area where my Dad grew up. LOL)
This used to be Knight's grocery store at the end of the road where my mom's family lived in Paul's Switch. My dad's parent's owned a similar store up the road a piece near Ponder Switch.
I saw this bumper sticker more than once. There were many more photo opportunities that I missed that would have spoken to the local culture.
Cool old house in Imboden that my mom and I want to restore after we win the lottery, LOL.
I couldn't believe how many abandoned, run down houses I saw on my trip. This one was in Mountain Home. I just want to go in there with a crew from HGTV and fix em up!
Love old barnes. I used to see more near the road but on this trip I would have had to get out in the mud and snow to get photos and I just didn't have the right footware for that.
Old water wheel somewhere in the Ozarks. One of the few photo ops with a safe place to pull over. Remember, these are mountain roads curving up and down through the hills all the while snowing. Wasn't willing to pull over in an unsafe spot for a good photo.
Marty, my best friend from 9th - 11th grade,in Jonesboro, AR, scanned two old photos of us recently. The first is my 11th grade photo. I made that satin shirt I'm wearing ;) The second one must have been 9th or 10th grade because I cut my hair at the beginning of 11th grade. I'm the one on the right with the red hair. Notice we are wearing saddle shoes?!?!?!
