A different take on WW2.
Many families were started just as "He" was shipped out.
This one is of my Mother In Law, Thelma and her love, James. Taken around '45-'46.

War Bride

Well, this one almost fits. Taken in the '80s, it reflects a time much earlier.
9 1/2 cents per gallon!!

This was a store front in Cartwright, TX, about 80 miles east of Dallas.

Fill 'er Up?

We found this in my Mother In Law's home as we moved her into assisted living. It should be somewhere in the Carolina's, unknown author, unknown date.
( But it does fit your photo criteria ;-)

Rough Landing

OK. I can play too. Here are few from the last 12 months.

Inchworm on Maple


I AM Smiling!


Black on Lavender

The second is my choice as well.
Sounds like we've got the Lower James covered.
I'm in Suffolk.

This from Wikipedia:
In 1852, a church was erected overtop the graveyard, its brick piers straddling gravestones and burial vaults to create what later Baltimoreans referred to as "catacombs." For years, it was thought that the Gothic Revival-style Westminster Presbyterian Church was built in response to a new city ordinance prohibiting cemeteries that were not adjacent to a religious structure.

A few out of my library.
Hollywood Cemetery is on the James River in Richmond,
VA.
Edgar Allen Poe has two stones in the Westminster Burial Site in Baltimore. One is the original grave sit. The other is a larger monument honoring Mr. Poe.

Hollywood Cemetary -- Confederate section


Original gravesite for E.A. Poe


Hollewood Cemetary -- Confederate section


Church expands over graves

Here's three from Virginia and North Carolina.

A Barnstorming show in central Virginia


FA-18 with vapors


Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, NC

Here's a few from 2011.

Pet Snapping Turtle


Mother Skunk and her litter of four


Green File snake lives in our back yard