A Slightly Different Focus

It’s been a screwy couple of weeks, with unexpected details finishing up construction around the house, several folks falling down stairs — including yours truly, hereafter known as “Mr. Grace” (not), and sweet Trish, who did some damage to herself on the trip down (no pun intended) — and an all-too-short visit to Florida. Get [...]

One of recent year’s highlights, as far as I’m concerned, is celebrating the bounty that is Thanksgiving with Dan and Monica.
Most of that has been about knowing great friends. Some, however, has to do with Dan’s simply-amazing turkey:

Check Twice, Eat Once
That title is a play on Norm Abram’s approach to construction, someone whose name has [...]

Last week not only served up a Cocktail Hour hosted by Creighton (aka the Originator) and Carolyn, but in a Thursday-Friday two-fer, Dan Zook’s 42nd birthday.
I took a very few photographs on Thursday, spending more time chatting with some new folks (as the various school seasons get underway, the new teachers and professors have introduced [...]

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 [...]

Update: Links fixed. Sorry for the error!
It’s after midnight Friday, and the promised Garden Tour photographs haven’t been posted yet. Sorry.
As if that’s not bad enough, last night — my first available photo-editing time since getting back in town — was spent out and about, first at Cocktail Hour, then at Mark Brooker’s good-bye party [...]

Significantly behind again; yet another of those eighty-hour work weeks prevented me from getting to last weekend’s photographs before now.
Thankfully, I was able to finish up the Thomasson Kentucky Derby Party before being out of the office for a long weekend. Please expect the Gardens photographs, at long last, Wednesday or Thursday. In the meantime, [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]