We’re on the road today. All day. On days like today the road can take you over. To keep that from happening to you, pictures!
Auburn’s Casey McElroy drove in four runs last Sunday, including two in a four-run eighth inning to beat Arkansas and win the weekend’s series.
Dan Gamache drove in a run off this pitch, to help win that Arkansas game, 8-7.
Safe! The Tigers weren’t so fortunate this weekend. They were swept at Mississippi State.
Later that same day last weekend Samford’s women’s basketball team made their first ever appearance in the NCAA Tournament in first round action at Auburn. The Lady Bulldogs fell to a tough Florida State squad, but Paige Anderson played her heart out. She only registered seven points, but was pure hustle. Turns out I took her picture in high school, too, when she won a state championship.
Savannah Hill’s off-balance shot fell for two points. (Sort of looks like a foul in there, too.)
Ruth Ketcham actually played at Auburn for a year before transferring to Samford. She got called upon to run the point late in the game.
After the game Spike, Samford’s mascot, ran into Hairy, who was getting ready to watch Georgia play in the second game of the day. They were very cordial. That bone was not used as a weapon.
So Florida State beat Samford, and Georgia defeated Middle Tennessee. The Bulldogs put FSU away in the next round and then fell to Texas A&M. I now know more about early round action of this tournament than I have in years.
I took a LOMO picture of one of the Live oaks at Toomer’s Corner on my way out of town the other day. Turns out the poison runs deeper than they’d originally realized, so grim news is a bit more grim. Old leaves are falling off just now for new growth anyway, but it will be the warmth that comes with the spring season that really shows how bad the problem is. Meanwhile, the deranged individual who admitted on the phone to poisoning two trees is awaiting a hearing next month.
You can see more pictures in this particular style on my LOMO blog, which I’m doing entirely from my phone. And as cellphone photo sites go, it isn’t bad. I know this because that site gets a lot more spam than this one.
The Yankee and I have this joke where I pretend to get indignant at whatever has offended my sensibilities and I announce “I’m going to go blog about my feelings!” I thought these were tasty chips, but she did not like them, so I said that I would write about it, and here we are.
The Yankee at Famous Dave’s in Little Rock.
