Old Glory

Southern Accents Architectural Antiques

Cullman, Alabama

Turn Up The Heat

I'd bet this lovely blue heater has kept many a family warm. 

Southern Accents Architectural Antiques, Pullman AL 

Doors, Doors, Doors

Take a stroll out back of Southern Accents Architectural Antiques and you'll find a warehouse chock full of windows, doors and a lot more. Need a door? They have big doors, small doors, colorful doors, beat up doors, really beat up doors, you name it.

Have a Coke and a Smile!

You really can get an old fashioned bottle Coca Cola from this cooler when you visit Southern Accents Architectural Accents in Cullman. 

Field Trip !

Over the years since I began my photographic journey, I've made a few field trips north of Birmingham to Cullman,  It's a sleepy little town with a lot of terrific photo ops. For a while, I"m revisiting my photos from those trips. Today and for the next few posts, we'll stop in at Southern Accents Architectural Antiques in downtown Cullman. Treasure trove is an understatement. In a warehouse out back, lots of architectural details and old windows and doors. I could have stayed a week!

Come back tomorrow as I'll still be digging through my archives for more!

Sunday Church Series - The Cross

This reflection from a stained glass window in the small chapel located at the Saint Bernard Abbey cemetery in Cullman, AL.

Today I join James' Weekend Reflections HERE. Please have a look at the photographs posted from around the world!

BADP On The Road - Cullman, Alabama

The Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, is located just a short trip north of Birmingham. I followed this priest at a fast pace to capture this!

Green Shutters and Shadows

Shutters and scaffolding shadows

Southern Accents Architectural Antiques

Sunday Church Series - The Cross

When visiting Cullman, Alabama a few weeks ago we made a stop at St. Bernard College and walked down to the lovely cemetery and chapel there.  The simple, but beautiful  chapel, which was not open on my last visit, was a special find. Its sparse furnishings allow the stained glass windows to show through. This afternoon, the light cast some interesting shadows.

The Vine Covered Window

This image is deceiving.  Actually it was taken from the inside of a Southern Accents Architectural Antiques looking out. These vines were hanging outside over the glass.  I was fascinated by the shadows etc. that give the appearance of a vine covered wall.

Adoorable

Southern Accents Architectural Antiques

Cullman, Alabama

Who knew salvage doors could be so fun and colorful??  I want the red ones, and the blue one, and the yellow one......

Tie a Knot and Hang On!

Southern Accents Architectural Antiques

Cullman, AL

I am pleased to announce the opening of my Etsy Store, Paris Through My Lens, offering a collection of my Paris photographs for sale. 

Still Life

Southern Accents Architectural Antiques

Sometimes the afternoon light paints a still life all its own.

You're a Grand Old Flag!

We're back in Cullman again today ( about 55 min. north of B'ham) at my new favorite place, Southern Accents Architectural Antiques.  Upstairs there's this enormous old flag and I loved the light shining through it with the antique chandelier.

I've posted another photograph here.

Where's My Horse?

Yesterday my photography friends Patty and Katie joined me for a photo shoot in Cullman, AL at Southern Accents Architectural Antiques. To say is it a treasure trove is an understatement. If they don't have it, you don't need it.  I'm sure I overlooked the horse that goes with this bridle somewhere in that building out back!

Lanterns and Arches

 Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrement
 Cullman AL.

In Remembrance - Abbey Cemetery

In April when my blog friends Janet and Maya paid me a visit, you might remember our trip to Cullman, AL to see the Ave Maria Grotto. This cemetery is where the Benedictine monks from St. Bernard Abbey are buried. What a lovely spot. It was a privelege to capture these photographs of their resting place.

At the Grotto

The Vatican in miniature

I'm back! Not from Paris but back on the blog for a few days. After that, my friend Jean Reed is at bat. Thanks to Doug Stocks for sharing his photographs with us this past week.

In April, when bloggers Janet and Maya were visiting you'll remember we took a little field trip north to Cullman, Al to visit the Ave Maria Grotto. Known throughout the world as "Jerusalem in Miniature," it is a beautifully landscaped, four-acre park. It's a peaceful setting for the 125 miniature reproductions of some of the most famous historic buildings and shrines of the world crafted by Brother Joseph Zoettl, a Benedictine monk at St. Bernard Abbey.

Shadow Series II- The Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrement

SHADOW  SERIES II

Several weeks ago fellow bloggers Maya and Janet visited me here in Birmingham.  I decided to take them on a little road trip north to Cullman, Alabama.  We stopped at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrement on our way out of town.  I must give Janet a nod for this shot.  She "saw" it first and I of course copied her.  The bottom photo is the detailed railing in front.  You may have noticed a bit of it here.

THREE WEEKS FROM TODAY, WE LEAVE FOR PARIS!!!

Padre

Today the The Happy Bloggers--Maya, Janet, and I--made a field trip to Cullman, Alabama. After visiting the Ave Maria Grotto, we stopped to photograph the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Outside only. Our attempts at illegal interior photos were nixed by the Big Guy Himself. However, as we left I ran, literally, to get this shot of the padre ambling away from the church. For an eighty year-old man, he was moving at a fair shuffle. I was the paparazzi chasing the papa!

DISCLAIMER: This text has been written by D.C. Confidential. Any similarity or disparity between my writing and Virginia's is purely coincidental.

 V NOTE: Get a crowd of bloggers under one roof and this is what happens.  We start blogging for each other.  Tonight, after a wonderful dinner by Chef Janet,  we have critiqued each other's photos from today's travels to a fare thee well and collaborated on everyone's post photos.  Tomorrow, I'll be on my own again, but be looking for another guest photographer's offerings coming soon! 

V