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Bridges of Oconee County

lydiat — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:30:18 -0800

I'm not sure that being "one of the few covered bridges in Georgia continuing to carry traffic without underlying steel beams" is anything to brag about, sign.
Is there anywhere the Google maps vehicle hasn't gone?

Rose Creek tumbles down into what will be a very enticing swimming hole next summer.

Fall arrives with a boda

lydiat — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:16:43 -0700

Somehow I ended up going to a wedding of a friend of a friend of Mom's; the theme was Latino-western-autumn, which worked surprisingly well.
It was a gorgeous day if you weren't behind a viewfinder; of course I didn't bring a polarizing filter (which helps control light and color saturation) or a lens hood (which helps with lens flares), which left half my pictures washed out or speckled with haze.

The ceremony was at the top of a 35% grade rain-softened grassy hill, which I assumed meant I could wear flats. Then I got there and every other woman had sacked up and worn stilettos. Ladyfail!

The funniest/most mortifying point was when Mom and I realized we both had been admiring the same Ryan Reynolds-esque wedding guest (sorry, girls, no pic available).

It takes like wild, gamey honey

lydiat — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:26:59 -0700

Dad has been helping Tipton Haynes, a local living history farm, make sorghum molasses for the past ten years. I'm not sure how he got involved, but like all of the odd stuff he does - being a standardized patient for the medical school, measuring road race courses for the track club - once he gets started he goes all out.

It was a little rainy, unfortunately. And when I say rainy, I mean we had our own flash flood warning.

If everyone is very good, tomorrow I'll treat you to the video that the Johnson City Press made.
More pictures here.

Athens dries up well

lydiat — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:06:13 -0700

Well, it did for a few days, although they issued a flash flood warning yesterday morning.

Helping a box turtle cross the street; right after this Steve made me rub Purell all over my hands because "turtles carry bacteria". Let the turtle flu rumormongering begin!

Justin is concerned about something, probably the fact that he'll be our only friend in Athens and will be forced to come to all our dinner parties.

Blues and grays

lydiat — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:43:50 -0700

Another place I could envision living for a while, another place crossed off the list because of weather. Then again, how the heck do girls maintain their boot collections in the mist?