Merry Christmas !

In looking back at all of 2005, one of the truly bright stars in our lives was this gift, Arwen. She's been in our lives for 10 months now and brings an exuberant perspective to each day.

Now, if we can just convince her to stay under the tree rather than high in the evergreen branches :)

Lookout Mtn. Tennessee

Aerial Survey

AERIAL SURVEY
by Rod Scott

City tough and town wise
they plotted their course
with seeming abandon,
A veer here, and
A jibe there, black
lightning in the
cloudless sky.

Unkempt buildings have
poor roof drainage;
But, behold!
The pools on top
mirror the missing sun
the pools
mirror azure skies.

Flocks of city tough
and town wise sparrows
arrow down to drink
deeply from the
gravelly pond,
and ponder gravely
apathetic men.


Birmingham, AL January 24, 1996
(from the 13th floor window)

Falling Sky

The crisp dry winter sky
ahh....humidity is dead.

It is great to live in Fall and Winter again, such as it is in the Deep South. The daymares of 80 degree dewpoints, burning sun soaked asphalt, and parched throats are gone for yet a little while. We fling our doors and windows open when it is 50 degrees outside just for the pure pleasure of drinking in the dry champagne of winter.

This photo was taken at sunset from Bluff Park, Alabama. It was 16 October, the genesis of a new Fall.