End of an Era

James and Cliff signed all the final documents today for the acquisition of Haulers by Shelter Insurance. We're told that all will stay business as usual, and that we all have our jobs. I hope that's the way it really happens. At any rate, this photo is the company 'group shot' that's being given to James. He's supposed to be retiring and not staying out at the office all the time. We'll see how long that actually takes to happen. I don't know what he'll do with his time if he's not lording over us peons at Haulers.

Sunday Drive

This evening, after my photo shoot with Lynn, Tim and I had dinner at JW Ray's in their new/old location. We were very pleased with our meal - delicious. They also seem to have lowered their prices back to a reasonable level. After dinner, we took a little Sunday evening drive and saw these great clouds on the way back into town. They were much more colorful in spots, but this was the best I could capture whilst moving along the road. The sunset had a very Maxfield Parrish feeling- ethereal. After this shot, we went to Bruster's and had some tasty ice cream treats. What a perfect evening!!

Guys Party

Saturday evening we had one of our 'guys' parties. We hadn't had the boys over in a while, and it was nice to see everyone. It was actually a pretty quiet evening. We were too busy gossiping and catching up to drink too much!

Greg, The Town Crier

Greg Bearden graced us at Rotary announcing the Bicentennial Celebration of the City of Columbia. He came out in full regalia ring-dinging his bell. That's a brave man.

How I Spent My Wednesday Evening

As seen in this photo, I spent my Wednesday night at the office. Our T1 data line went down at 10am this morning, and never came back up. I had many, many calls to AT&T throughout the day. This was the second technician to be onsite working on our problem. I stayed until 9:15pm with him working on it, and it still wasn't fixed. Not a good day (or night)!

Tuesday's Skyline

This was the view of the late afternoon sun on Tuesday. I love the sun rays beaming down on us - let's you know there's someone up above peeking down to watch over us.

Dinner at Donna & Jason's

We had dinner at Donna and Jason's tonight. They grilled burgers and had chips, dip, and corn. They've finished a lot of gardening work around their new patio, and it all looked marvelous!

Saturday in the Garden - Orange Bliss

I love how this canna photo turned out. It's such a vibrant orange. Orange on orange, with a dash of orange. This one may have to go on the wall.

Rotary Banquet

Tonight was my Rotary Club's annual banquet. It was held at the tired Memorial Building and catered by Cambridge Inn. About the food, let me just say: the steaks were absolutely delish. I was very impressed by them! Now the fishy smelling shrimp cocktail is another story all together - didn't touch mine, thank you very much. As you can see in the picture, I did imbibe a beer or two during the evening. I needed something to make me not care how long this thing was lasting. Anywho, the new officers took over and another Rotary year has begun.

Lunch in the Park

It was only 82 degrees for the high today, and the humidity was very low - it felt amazing outside. We had pizza at the park for lunch. It was very enjoyable. I'm so glad it's going to be cooler for the next few days! Cosmic!!

Beautiful Monday Evening

Today was all about recovering from the Garden Tour. Oh, and getting our refrigerator fixed, having ice again, and buying all new groceries. Anyway, this was the beautiful sunset as I was going into Walmart for said grocerias.

Garden Tour - Sunday

It was very sunny today for the Garden Tour. We had another good crowd considering it was Sunday and Father's Day. I found this dragonfly at one of the homes on the tour. The details are amazing - you can see every little line in its wing!

Garden Tour - Saturday

Today was the first day of the Gardens of Maury County for 2008. The weather was much cooler than the past couple of weeks, but we had some rain this morning. Still, the crowd was nice. All of the homeowners did a great job!

Wildlife in the City

While leaving one of the homes that's on the garden tour this year, I came across this small deer, resting in someone's front yard in Antrim. He had 2 others resting near him. It was such a peaceful setting- green grasses, resting deer, setting sun.

Traffic Light Cleaning

I saw this City of Columbia employee cleaning the traffic light at an intersection today. He was spraying it with a cleaner, and carefully wiping it down. I didn't know we needed people to do this.

First Magnolia of the Season

Today while we were floating in the pool, I noticed that the magnolia had started to bloom. I simply adore magnolia blooms. They smell so sweet, look so classic - they are just pure Southern charm. I hope our tree has many more blooms this summer!

Saturday in the Garden

This is the first daylily of the season to open. I don't remember this one's name, but it was given to me by the Zapels from last year's garden tour. I love the coloring in it.

Homeowners 'Thank You' Party

Here we see Jason and Glenn at the Homeowners 'Thank You' party for this year's Gardens of Maury County tour. It was held at the home of Vince and Susie Vinson. It was a wonderful party - great food, wonderful drinks. The homeowners all mixed and mingled very well with each other. I think it's going to be a good tour this year!

Abstract from the Garden

Here's a colorful abstract from the garden. It's a leaf from the Tropi-canna canna. It's started blooming in a beautiful shade of orange.

Sunday Nap

I was supposed to have a band concert this afternoon outdoors at the park, but the weather did not cooperate. Instead, due to the rain, it was a perfect afternoon for napping. You can see Tim and Ada enjoying their naptime in the picture. Can you tell that the dogs are spoiled?