Decisions

ParkerPixels is something that I want to keep up with.  I have deactivated my other sites except for one Facebook page and my primary website, www.parkerpixels.com.  There just got to be too much noise and not enough content on any of the sites to warrant that large of a footprint.  My son may argue that you cannot have enough exposure on the net, but there is also the issue of providing content.  I have this blog which also repeats itself on my website but I need to connect it to my ParkerPixels page so these posts show up there.  Working on that one.

I hope to post some good pics here and recently had the opportunity to do a Santa shoot with some historical characters.  There was one that I liked a lot and I post it here for your review.  We are portraying Henry Wadsworth Longfellow here, he penned the words to the song.  The story is poignant around the writing.  Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia:

During the American Civil War, Longfellow's oldest son Charles Appleton Longfellow joined the Union cause as a soldier without his father's blessing. Longfellow was informed by a letter dated March 14, 1863, after Charles had left. "I have tried hard to resist the temptation of going without your leave but I cannot any longer," he wrote. "I feel it to be my first duty to do what I can for my country and I would willingly lay down my life for it if it would be of any good".^[2] Charles soon got an appointment as a lieutenant but, in November, he was severely wounded^[3] in the Battle of New Hope Church (in Virginia) during the Mine Run Campaign. Coupled with the recent loss of his wife Frances, who died as a result of an accidental fire, Longfellow was inspired to write "Christmas Bells".
He first wrote the poem on Christmas Day in 1863.^[4] "Christmas Bells" was first published in February 1865 in Our Young Folks, a juvenile magazine published by Ticknor and Fields.<sup>[5]

Here is the photo:</sup>

I hope you enjoy it.

Robert