Seen in the wild: Southern NJ

[CameronCat]

Returning from a weekend of race cars and an airshow today, my wife and I pulled into a large chain fuel-sandwich shop+everything you need store in southern New Jersey about 4pm.

Sitting in the van waiting for her return from the store, I looked across the large parking lot and noticed a smart middle-aged woman in a kilt skirt walking from her car. She was followed shortly by her male companion--husband? brother? date?--also kilted in a matching tartan.

At a distance, both kilts looked predominantly blue with some green. Their dress was best termed smartly done rather than formal or semiformal. I believe he had an open-neck white dress shirt on plus hose, flashes, sporran, etc.

If it was anyone on the list, sound off: we saw ya, and you looked good!

(Wife returned and we rolled on home before the couple returned from the store. My wife said she came out the opposite door and never noticed them.)

Kilts are everywhere!

[MacBean]

Didn't see your kilties Jim, but a kilted piper was seen playing at Independence Mall, Philadelphia around 2PM.

We put pink peonies from our garden at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the War of Indepence in Washington Park where it reads, "Freedom is a light for which many men have died in darkness"

War of Independence 1775-1783 25,000
War of 1812 1812-1815 20,000
Mexican-American War 1846-1848 13,283
Civil War 1861-1865 623,026
World War 1 1917-1918 116,708
World War 2 1941-1945 407,316
Korean War 1950-1953 36,914
Vietnam War 1964-1973 58,169
Persian Gulf War 1991 269
Afghanistan 2002-2011 1,423 (12/9/10)
Iraq 2003-2011 4,430 (12/9/10)

[bigdad1]

Beautiful quote MacBean