A short hop and skip in Georgetown

 As you may have heard (since I might have remembered to say so) I take a break from driving every hour. To mainly walk around and make sure my legs are feeling good...but also to slow down and enjoy the areas I drive through.

So my last day of my recent trip to visit Ohio relatives, I was driving along with that sign of doom "check engine" light on the dashboard. I could cover it up with my hand on the steering wheel much of the time, and keep it out of my mind.

Not many people on the sidewalks in mid-afternoon on a cold Sunday. The restaurant shown above probably was attracting most of them.

It had appeared the day before, when I stopped over night in Lexington, KY. I was still 300 miles from home in North Carolina. So I texted or called 2 of my sons, who agreed that I should just keep driving till I could get to my trusty mechanic at home. If it started flashing, or other things happened, they advised me to stay on the interstate highways, where hopefully help could be obtained (I've got road side insurance) if needed. 

I was willing to go through a long slow construction area on I-40 at the Tennessee-North Carolina border. I prepared by stopping before I got to it and taking care of necessities, so I wouldn't have that need plaguing me if it was an hour to go through that area. (Note, Hurricane Helene was the cause of washed out roads, and this area continues to have floods, though construction is actively rebuilding the highway.)

But the evening before, I stopped my ride to Lexington with a short visit to Georgetown KY.

Sadly this shop where I parked was closed on Sundays. You know I'd have loved a treat from there!

It felt like a typical tourist "old towne" with so many cute shops.

Being in Blue Grass country of Kentucky, there was a great mural in an alley of some horses.

I knew my friends who like to go visit places would have loved this shop (though being more than 300 miles from home might make it a bit difficult to schedule!) Miss Behaven, Gifts for the Southern Heart.

Sharing with Monday Murals. 

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Today's goddesss:

Gold signate rings...depicting women in the Minoan attire of flounced skirts... from the Griffin Warrior tomb in Pylos, Greece. The tomb was that of a Mycenaean warrior, who died in his mid-30s around 1500 BCE. 

The Minoan culture flourished from 3100 to 1100 BCE. The more warlike Mycenean culture was active from 1750 to 1050 BCE. So there was overlap whereby a soldier could have worn images of Minoan women, in one view perhaps as a servant. But the important find (for me) is the bull jumper on the bottom ring image. Both men and women practiced this sport as early as Minoan times, as seen in various murals and pottery decorations on Crete.

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13 days till Winter Solstice

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And for phone readers, here's the new header photo!

 I was surrounded by my beautiful granddaughters at Thanksgiving 2025!