Moving Day

The Lagoon At Middle Park

Cookies By Moe

McFadden Reunion Invitation

 

What's in A Name

I was looking around the net to find what a friends newborn baby's name meant. I came across this. So I'm son of Patrick. Well its better then the other thing I found which was barrel maker. But how they get from Patrick to Patterson I don't know






McFadden
Patterson or Paterson is now found throughout Ireland, though it is common only in Ulster, being particularly frequent in Co. Down. Originally it is a Lowland Scottish name, meaning, simply, "Patrick's son", and was also used as an anglicisation of the Highland Gaelic surname, Mac (Gille) Phadraig, meaning "son of the follower of Patrick". In addition, there is a surname, Mac Phaidín, from Paidín, a diminutive of Patrick, which arose separately in both Ulster and Scotland, and which has been anglicised as Patterson, as well as the more usual (Mc)Fadden and (Mc)Padden. William Paterson (1745-1806) was born in Co. Antrim and emigrated to America with his parents while still a child. He became Senator for New Jersey in 1789, Governor of New Jersey in 1791 and a justice of the Supreme Court from 1793. The town of Paterson, New Jersey, is named for him. The founder of the Belfast Natural History Society was Robert Patterson (1802-1872).

Coming Home To Roost

My younger sister is moving. Something about disturbing the peace or some nonsense. But I checked out the place and I swear it reminds me of a chicken coop. The area looks like the homestead of an old farm .Across the street is the big old farm house a small barn or maybe stable and then this...Pets should be allowed.

UPDATE!!!!
I've been told that this is the former home of the Davenport Button Factory. All button and sewing jokes please enter here.

Was It Because?

He's an Iowan

He owns a Mustang

Yes it was a he.

Dangerous Area.

I thought I had been on all of the bike path down by the river but it looks like I hadn't. I was out on my bike going from Casino to Casino and went behind the water company building. It has a tower like a castle and across the river a great view of the old barracks on the Arsenal Island.

Quarters One on the Arsenal Island...really look close.

This is part of the water company building that is on the bike path..I stopped to take this picture and then turned around to get ....

This picture. by the time I was getting ready to take some more a man on his electric scooter come out of the building and up to me and said I had to get moving . Private property and all that...For some reason the Abbott Bannister come to mind when he was talking.

Our Own Desperate Housewife.

The Beginning Or The End

The Start or the finish of the Bettendorf bike path in good old

Riverdale? Yes its a small town north of Bettendorf the Duck Creek is the dividing line between the two and the path ended up on there side at the very end.

a smaller side creek flowing into the Duck

way back there a very pretty water fall

The sandstone along the creek and the little caves that it made along the waterline

Happy May Day

may

This is the picture from my front door for the month of May. I dawned sunny and calm and kinda warm. Then the clouds rolled in and the temps dropped. Yesterday we had high winds and one heck of a storm. No damage that I heard of .

Stuff I Bet You Didn't Know Was Out There

This is along River Dr next to the Arsenal Bridge. Marion was the first American woman killed in the First World War.

Near the corner of River Dr and East 4th street there are two monuments. The one is about the first bridge that went across the Mississippi. The second is about the boat that hit the bridge and the lawsuit that followed. A young lawyer named Abraham Lincoln is one of the lawyers and the case got his name into the public forum. And the rest is history.

Vanderveer Park on a Windy Spring Day

Mother duck and her chicks getting ready to head into the pond

Liliac Garden

Ducks leaving Duck Creek

A Mr and Mrs Duck leaving the Duck Creek. I was about 6 and starting to get dark. They must have been heading back to the nest.

Sister's Garden

Some of the flowers outside my sister's house.How they look before the rabbits get to them

Checking out the Ads

Already the shopper. She's checking out the Sunday ads to see if there is anything that I need to buy for her.

Credit Island

A sail boat out on the Mississippi. On Credit Island looking over into Illinois


the tank and all the standing water
Didn't know what this was at first. Someone flying a kite.


the shelter in about three feet of water. No picnic today



I don't want to walk on that natural trail. I want good old black top. Only God could walk on that trail.

Easter Walk

Went for a walk along the river front after a wonderful Easter dinner.
I was cloudy but 71 out so it wasn't that bad, until we got to the river. The wind was very strong. As we walked we could see the storm front moving in and then the warning sirens went off. It turned out to be just a normal spring shower.



River a little high

and choppy




Resident One on the Arsenal Island. They are thinking of turning it into a bed and breakfast.
The Davenport Sailing club.
Happy and sad

Constance with the camera and her sisters pouting mouth

train tracks and the water works.

The Arsenal bridge and the storm front.