Baby, It’s Cold Outside…

The cold weather has finally gotten my garden goodies…

the basil is black

the tomatoes are toast

the black-eyed Susan vines are broke

the flowers are frightening

the geraniums are gone…

and I’m not a poet!!!

Some winter photos from last January…hoping we won’t see any more of this…

or this in our little Southern neighborhood…

I sure don’t want to see my hollies looking like this again…

Woo Hoo…what a night!!!

Several weeks ago I blogged about meeting with some friends concerning a school reunion. One of these people came up with the idea of having a reunion of everyone who had ever attended our local high school. This was a very big undertaking that turned out beautifully.

There were a few more that left early or came in late that I didn’t get photos of…We had wonderful entertainment…

Kevin Black was there live and in person…Kevin is Clint Black’s brother and a wonderful entertainer in his own right. He didn’t have his band with him this time but is scheduled to come back with his entire band soon…

Classmate Wayne with Kevin and Clint Black…

Kevin has a favorite charity and is involved in a lot of work with them. Unfortunately Kevin lost his 16 year-old daughter to Rett's Disease. In her memory, and for the hope of those girls who get the disease, Kevin and Clint do a benefit every year to raise money for a cure at the Dosey Doe in Texas.

This is a copy of one page of our high school annual, I was the editor of this section…

One of the photos from our reunion…see what a group of reserved professionals we are!!!

The “real” Class of ‘70… fun loving, goofy and ?????????

I haven’t seen some of these “kids” since we graduated…

The lady in the middle was a great friend of mine that I haven’t seen in ages…we didn’t graduate the same year so this reunion made our meeting possible…

On the left is my good friend Jackie, Gary (we went to school together from grade 1-12) and myself…

Jackie, Cheri and myself ( something had my attention)…

The reunion planning committee…r to l first row…Linda, Greg, Dianne, Becky

back row l to r…Wayne, Russ, RT, Melba and Glenn

Thanks guys, it was great fun…

Donna Boucher asked on her blog for us to paste our senior photo…so here goes…if you notice in the above yearbook photo…my hair was just like everyone else’s!!!

“Life, Love and Cluttered Closets”…by Lisa Smartt

This is probably the most fun family that I got to photograph last Saturday. While working with the boys, we got to wondering what kind of noise that deer make. They asked their Dad, who is a very knowledgeable professor and learned exactly what deer sound like. The boys’ Mom is a local “celebrity”…a public speaker and author of a wonderful book, The Smartt View…

If you’d like to buy a great little gift for someone special go to Lisa’s website…Lisa also speaks to many groups and would be a wonderful addition to any meeting. Her website has some of her columns that have been published and I know you will enjoy each one of them. You may even see yourself depicted in one of her stories.

Local faces who attended included this beautiful family and one of them is our own County Mayor…

Some beautiful happy faces…

This couple knew Jackie before she was born and farm her land for her…truly family…

A new friend that I got to invite to the party…

Old friends of Jackie’s…

Good neighbors that small towns are so famous for…

Friends that both Jackie and I have known for our lifetimes…

This lady was splitting her time between the party and her favorite Lady Vols game…decisions, decisions, decisions….Dear Lord, Please let me be this happy and fulfilled in the years to come!!!

A beautiful young lady sporting a new school shirt…Jackie and my alma mater…more to come about that tomorrow.

Family Portraits

This isn’t a formal portrait… just some great shots of a beautiful family (Mom wouldn’t pose).

The beautiful Grandmother in this series is the most giving person I know. Every year she helps the high school Marching Band in a million different ways. She is at every function and has been doing this for years. Thanks from a very grateful ex-bandMom who appreciates the dedicated hard work you have done!!!

People, People, People

What makes a wonderful party??? People…My friends Jackie and Lou held their annual Christmas Party today. I got to snap photos of the attendees…it was wonderful!!

Don’t you just love “people” photos???

The Hostess…Jackie…note the ceiling where the chandelier hangs, earlier this week…

ummm, yes…this entire section of their ceiling had to be removed…meaning that chandelier had to be taken down!!!

A major repair job had to take place and their annual holiday party had already been planned months in advance.

We photographed everything in the room and removed it…everything…including the chandelier.

Before removal, everything was already covered in dust…

This little beauty came down last!!! Jackie got the job of cleaning every single piece of it before it was re-installed….wwwhhheeewww I was so glad she was there to do that one. It went back up late Friday afternoon!!! The party was less than twenty-four hours later… and Jackie and I had to attend a school reunion at 6 p.m. on Friday night!

I took a lot of photos…just in case…

Everything finally fell into place at the last moment and the party was wonderful. We all were just a “little” tired…

Fresh garnish for the party dishes…can’t get any fresher than this, right out of the herb bed…

Waiting for a bath and then to the party table…

Lou makes the most divine strawberry punch!!!

Getting everything ready…