04-14 & 15-15 Returning Home

Another bittersweet goodbye! Stayed up late last night scanning old family pictures that Uncle Shelby had. So much fun. Those I will post on Facebook. Loved visiting everyone and hate to say goodbye, but happy to be heading home at the same time. Miss Jacob, Karli and especially, Bonnye.
First, of course, we had to say goodbye to the animals on our way out. LOL!

  Misty

Sofie & Noah

 

 Curtiss, Uncle Shelby and I

Swung by to say goodbye to my sweet cousin, Oneita.

Juanita was off babysitting the grandkids.

Harold was sweet and swung by Mt. Calvary Cemetary for me, so that I could get pics of some of the Prather family gravesites. Couldn't find my Aunt Nita's (Uncle Shelby's first wife and my cousin's mother).

Paternal Grandfather Arthur Prather

 



Paternal Grandmother Ola Mae (Whittington) Prather

 

Uncle Napoleon (Nap) Prather (dad's half brother)

 

 Uncle Clarence (dad's brother)

 Nita Prather (Uncle Clarence's wife)

Aunt Bobbye (Trichel) Prather (Uncle Floyd's wife)

Rained most of the day.

 Krotz Springs, LA

 

 Baton Rouge, LA

 

Jacob's car's mileage rolled over 80,000 miles just before we left Alabama.

 



 Entering Alabama

 



Stopped in Chattanooga.

Last leg of the trip on 4/15. First stop - breakfast!

 

We started seeing tons of these pink/purple bud trees all along the road side when we left Chattanooga. So pretty. Found out they are called "Redbuds".



 

 

West of Bristol, TN we saw this cool building.

Yeah! We are back in Virginia.

Stopped at the first VA rest area and got a great photo op. This LOVE was not there last time we went thru this way.

 

Love this water tower. Wytheville, VA. We stopped at the Cracker Barrel there for a late lunch/early dinner.

View from the Cracker Barrel parking lot.

 

We stopped at this scenic overlook to take pics and it also had this memorial to VDOT Workers.

 

 

Peter in the redbud tree.

 



Overlook of the Valley