A Slightly Different Focus

Cocktail Hour marked its return from the summer hiatus this past Thursday, and I was there with a camera. It was nice to see folks, including hosts Gerald and Autumn, also marking a return — this time, from their trip to England.
Gerald was also using the occasion to start the celebration of his 40th birthday, [...]

Enjoyed Cocktail Hour this past Thursday with my good friends Miles and Trish, who hosted the get-together in their Magnolia Street home.
Also appreciated the house cat, Pablo, for not only putting up with the crowd, but participating — mostly:

Photographs of Pablo bookend the fifteen-photograph set, but there’s also good stuff in the middle. Like this:

Love [...]

I’m working on the Garden Tour photographs this weekend, but couldn’t resist a dinner invitation from my good friends Miles and Trish. Before I knew it, there was a set of photographs ready to be uploaded.
Including several of the official “Magnolia Boy:”

Connor’s (Extreme) Close-Up
He likes to grab the camera and stick his face into the [...]

Enjoyed this Saturday on two fronts, starting with a tour of four of Macon’s gardens — taking, as usual, a slightly different focus:

Flowers with Paper Background
Shredded paper as mulch. Great recycling goin’ on here…!
Then, next door, caught one of those photographs — which also happens to include a [very tiny — Ed.] bit of self-portrait:

Tea, [...]

One of those “interesting” days; had planned on visiting some Macon gardens today, but spent the “business” day, well, working.
Thus, it was a pleasure to escape downtown tonight for First Friday.
Starting with the discovery of some folks doing book design — right here in Macon:

burt&burt art+design
Then on to the Arts Exchange, where I ran into [...]

Enjoyed Cocktail Hour this evening at Kim Wold’s. As my “official” Cocktail Hour postings go, it’s the second in a row for her — but there have been three in the interim that I have not been able to get to.
Sorry.
Meanwhile, many thanks to Kim for hosting. (Again.)
And a familiar-yet-still-cute boy, who tonight, was driving [...]

Update: Full set posted, 66 photographs in all.
Original post: Enjoyed the evening at the Historic Macon Foundation Party of the Year, held tonight at the former Karsten-Denson building on Third Street, downtown.
Which, while lacking air conditioning on the year’s first ninety-degree day (in April…!), was a great time. Further, this fantastic old space was perfect [...]

Please note: I’ve been working on Cherry Blossom Festival Parade, literally, all week. It takes time to sort and develop the best of six hundred photographs, and despite being behind on posting, I needed a break. Thanks for bearing with me.
Update: 73 more photographs are uploading as I type this — check the gallery when [...]

Update: Both the bed race and downtown galleries are now complete (see links below); the parade gallery is in process and should be uploaded Friday. Thanks!
Warning: long post ahead. Folks wonder why I’m late with putting stuff up; instead of developing what I already have am behind on, I added 1187 new raw photographs to [...]

Enjoyed a really nice — if too short — Cocktail Hour tonight. Alas, due to workload, it was literally an hour (well, a little plus — not enough), so only a few photographs from the evening.
But one I like of the hosts. Both of ‘em:

John’s there. Check carefully. (Yes, this photograph was also framed carefully. [...]