Three – Black and White

Taxodium distichum

three + bald cypress — The National Champion Bald Cypress is in the Cat Island Nation Wildlife Refuge, near St. Francisville, Louisiana, and it is 96 feet (29 m) tall, 56 feet (17 m) in circumference, and is estimated to be approximately 1,500 years old. The oldest known living specimen, found along the Black River in North Carolina, is at least 2,624 years old, rendering it the oldest living tree in eastern North America.– Wikipedia

gates

narrow gate

grand gate

14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Breakfast

three people eating — the young man stayed for breakfast and returned often in the decades following.

RIC road trip

EG and the strange dolls
Her grandmother had strange dolls

Hull Street outlet — The cultural offerings in Richmond were diverse.

Va Museum — The Virginia Museum a favorite venue of 4 year olds.

country mice

A blessing

to return to home country

three

three dogs — Celeste, Matilda, Arthur

handset

3 kids and a corded phone — The handset was sculpted to work with human proportions. Mouth, ear, neck, shoulder. Called a handset but hands weren’t required to hold it. Ergonomic.

September’s children

William, Edith, Emma — three consecutive days in September 171 years apart

2 children on a desk — Borderline simultaneous, arriving one brilliant morning just past midnight.

flag and porch — Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor good job, farewell

the natural world intervenes

slabtown herd — looking up from the phone

naturalized Canada geese — animal life.

welcoming committee

airport security moving with deliberate speed — three on foot, one on Segway

Segue is a verb that means “to move without stopping from one topic, song, etc., to another.” Segway, on the other hand, is a trademarked name for an electric transportation device. Most of the most commonly confused words in English are old pairs: affect and effect, or discrete and discreet.

Three

Orange ,Virginia — three flags three birds one soldier