Back in July I had the distinct privilege of photographing the world-renowned Bill Fillmaff playing high-stakes Texas Holdem’ against Mikey… a chimpanzee. I would say more but I do believe that the pictures speak for themselves.
In late August I took a look in the mirror and decided I didn’t like what I saw. So I headed to the store and picked up a pair of running shoes, the Nike+ attachement for my Nano and was off to the races. This entry is a status report after my first 24 hours.
My brother volunteered his new house for Thanksgiving dinner this year. It was to be a huge feast, with both our immediate family and his wife Jessica’s family present. They were expecting, all told, about 20 grandchildren, children, parents, grandparents and cousins. A great way to break in a new place, don’t you think?
Just before Thanksgiving we took a trip to the family farm for an old fashioned hayride. Granted, there was no hay since we’re all allergic, but there were blankets and warm coats and a trailer full of grandchildren, cousins, brothers and wives.
Since making the switch to digital a few years ago I’ve been paranoid about losing all of my “negatives” to a simple hard drive crash. I recently added NAS to our home network via a ReadyNAS NV+ and simultaneously made my files safer and increased my nerd quotient.
We headed home to Georgia for Thanksgiving and were looking forward to a week full of relaxation and fun with our extended family. Our first visitors were my cousin Leigh Ann and her daughter Erin.
I’d heard one too many, “What a cute little girl!” comments over the past few weeks and, one must admit, it was starting to get a bit disheveled. So, though we loved the little golden curls, it was finally time for Henry to go and have his first haircut.
Today was our last day in Hawaii. We had only a few hours this morning to soak in a few last glimpses of our glorious Kealakekua Bay views and gorge ourselves on fresh-picked mangos (I ate two) before we had to leave for the airport.
For as long as I can remember I’ve had blackeyed peas and greens on New Years Day. In Southern lore the peas are for luck and the greens for money. It seems to have worked well for us in the past so I wasn’t about to let a little thing like being 3600 miles from home stand in the way of tradition.