There's a swing on our front porch...

and our friend Kendrick came over to test it out. She also watched while I painted the bottom half of our dining room red. We can paint whatever color we want now that we have our own house!

We're going to be working on it for the next few weeks and it should be ready for us to move in at the end of February.

An unusually cold morning

I was heading out to work and Nicole was still waiting for her car to warm up. I noticed the cool snowflakes, and the morning sun coming through the window and took some pictures. I didn't think it would be for the paper but my boss liked it. It ended up on the front page the next day and was picked up by AP. The managing editor wrote about it in her blog.

http://blogs.augusta.com/node/1222

Plunging Southern Style

Happy New Year! I wasn't sure what to expect when I was assigned to shoot "the parrot plunge" on New Year's Day. I'm used to to hundreds of people diving into the frigid Atlantic on Hampton Beach for the annual "polar bear plunge". Turns out a small group of parrotheads gather together every New Year's Day and plunge into a swimming pool. The water was a temperate 59 degrees and the air temperature in the lower-60's- BRRRRRR...

Eating, Relaxing and Being a Tourist

It was nice to be back up north for Christmas.



lot's of eating





relaxing








and being a tourist again in Boston.

No Wintry Mixes of Precipitation Here

I had a dream last night about pachysandra plants and the cellar door in my backyard leading to the basement in the house where I grew up. I was feeling nostalgic when I woke up. Then I heard the weather up north- mix of wintry precipitation, 28 degrees. I remembered how much I hate wintry mixes of precipitation. We decided to take advantage of the beautiful, 70 degree weather and go for a run. This happens to be my favorite street in our neighborhood.

Speaking of neighborhoods, my Dad just emailed this photo since I was feeling nostalgic. It's one of my earlier photos of my sister and the neighbors.

Cotton feels nice and BBQ tastes good :)

We were driving home from a wedding in Americus this past weekend and I had to pull over on the side of the road to touch the cotton. We each took a piece and ran.

Distracted by the lovely feel, we took a wrong turn and ended up at Heavy D's BBQ somewhere in the middle of nowhere. The nice lady told us how to get back to Augusta and then informed us that Heavy D's was where they filmed the bar scenes in "Sweet Home Alabama". We looked at some photos she had in an album and ordered some BBQ to go. We were glad we got lost.

But I've never seen it- and that's what matters

I was driving home from work last week and saw this. Ecstatic, I immediately called my co-worker, hoping I stumbled on a great opportunity to make a feature for the paper (my first might I add). Apparently giant crosses in the south are as common as fast food chicken restaurants, but I shot it anyway.