Day Seventy Eight

Lunch at the D.Q. on Spring Street in Cookeville. On the left side of the pic: hubby Neil, and nieces Julia and Sarah Foy. Holding down the right side of the pic also from front to back are sister Jane Foy, daughter Holly Myers, grandson Elijah Myers, daughter Kelly Kimbrough, and grand daughter Shelby Myers. It's always a treat for me to get to be with family and share a lunch and just talk and laugh. Kelly was in town to visit, then take the girls back home with her to Murfreesboro to hang out and at midnight Friday, head to Books A Million to join other "Twilight" movie fans to pick up the new double disk DVD. Hope they have fun! http://www.booksamillion.com/ncom/books?ad=OVBKSBAMM

Day Seventy Seven

Neil and I were sitting in the D.Q. today at lunch and I got out my cell phone to take a picture (for the day) and I realized I had color settings on there I'd never noticed before. Besides the normal, there's vivid, negative (I took a couple of weird pictures of Neil and the ice cream cone with that one) and sepia and black and white and one called solari. While my chocolate covered ice cream cone slowly melted, it posed for a snapshot in the solari setting, which turned out pretty cool. A whole new world of photography with my cell phone opened up for me today. What fun! Someday I'll show you those weird negative pics.

Day Seventy Six

Couldn't resist posting more than one picture today. It's Spring Break for schools here. We all descended upon our mom's residence at the assisted living home where she lives and had a good time together. The top picture is my brother Ken, my sisters Ann and Jane, Jane's daughters Sarah and Julia, and my grand kiddos Shelby and Elijah hanging out in our mom's room. She recently moved to this new room, so we hung her pictures and arranged stuff on her new cork board.

The middle picture is Ann, Sarah, Julia, Shelby and Elijah soaking up the sunshine down by the pond where they threw some rocks in the water and made wreaths for our hair from the willow tree branches.

The bottom picture is Jane and Mom, also soaking up that sunshine and watching the kids play (that includes Ann!) and the geese diving for good eats in the pond.

We had a good afternoon together. What more can we ask for? Life is good!

Had to share this

Day Seventy Five

The old Cookeville water tower came down today. By Tuesday, it will be a fond memory for those of us who played in its shadow at Capshaw school the past five or six decades. It was a true small town icon and as I've noted before a distinctive part of my backyard landscape. Yes, it was rusty and covered in grafitti. But I miss it already.