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Catching up

Welcome to the portion of the site where we throw a bunch of photos up, show them off for the first time and call it a day.

This is from the wedding reception yesterday. The Yankee hanging out with a bunch of her former students. They’re a nice group. Very funny. They’re mugging for the official photographer. I’m just butting in here:

I discussed the bouquet toss, so it is only fair to show the garter. This might be the first one I’ve seen where more than one person was interested in catching it:

Our local baseball vendor. He “don’t sell to no Tennessee fans.” He has enough patter to go about six innings without repeating himself. Makes a lot of money off those jokes, too.

We have to do this one every year, and today was the perfect opportunity to sneak it in. Hot, bright and not a cloud in the sky for our reflection picture of Samford Stadium-Hitchcock Field at Plainsman Park. Auburn has runners on the corners and is about to turn this game into a blowout to sweep the weekend series:

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Apr 12

The day, in one picture

We were invited to attend the wedding of one of The Yankee’s former students. She was marrying her college sweetheart. As the two Auburn alumni walked back up the aisle, having been announced to everyone gathered at the lovely country home wedding, the classical guitar band played War Eagle.

Later, after the food there were the dances. The bride and groom danced to a Jason Mraz song — I called it on the way to the wedding. The bride and her father enjoyed a Steven Curtis Chapman song. The groom and his mother danced … to the Cupid Shuffle. After that and all of the other things you see at weddings, everyone gathered for the traditional tosses.

Here one of the bride’s former classmates demonstrates the thrill of bouquet victory:

And another shows us the agony of “I might not ever marry now” defeat.

It was the minister’s first marriage ceremony. They had a reception band that insisted on turning everything into a Jack Johnson-type song.

The groom’s truck was decorated in the traditional, embarrassing style.

(As we left we wondered how that didn’t happen to us. We had valet parking. That’s the way to go, friends.)

Despite that tiny setback, it was a beautiful day for an outdoor wedding to see two nice young people, Dan and Ally, exchange vows. Glad we got to be there.

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Apr 12

Just pictures

Breakfast here, in honor of the weekly tradition:

And then it was on to campus, where I wondered what kind of shrubbery this might be:

And then it was class, resumes and so on. It was a full, full day.

That’s why this is what you have this.

But you also have this: the return of the Tumblr. The thing has been dormant for quite some time, but I’ve recently stumbled across a few nice, inspiring ones. So I’ve changed the look, twice, adopting a free theme in the cheapest traditions of this website and then tweaked the code.

It will never be much, the Tumblr blog, but random things from my phone can easily be uploaded through the app and that will be enough to let us point and giggle.

More tomorrow.

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Apr 12

Catching up

This is the post with the pictures that couldn’t find a home elsewhere this week.

Found these grits at one of the places where we buy our local vegetables — we have three places. We don’t buy grits there, though. We don’t buy grits.

You’d make fun of the way cats sleep, and then you wonder: What do I look like when I sleep? And that ends that.

Auburn still produces phonebooks. They put 1,800 on each pallet. There were 10,000 or so sitting on this sidewalk. They’ve been there for months:

Graffiti has no point. Some has even less:

Haley Center has seen better days. It almost feels as if they’ve stopped trying. Note the guy hanging on:

This is the heel of the Bo Jackson statue outside Jordan-Hare Stadium. (Yes, a statue honoring a living person is odd.) This is what defenders so most often:

This is the heel of the Cam Newton statue outside Jordan-Hare Stadium. No idea why they are different:

The best view possible of Parker Hall:

Lovely daises:

We attended the memorial ceremony honoring three Auburn students that have died in the last year. Two of natural causes and one in a car crash. Very sad:

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Apr 12

The three Heisman statues

Finally got to see these today. They’re quite impressive. And at a reported $100,000, they better be.

(A statue of a living person is unfortunate, but we’ve already crossed that bridge.)

The unveiling, last weekend, with Pat Sullivan, Bo Jackson and Cam Newton all in attendance:

Wish they’d used an Auburn sculptor — remember what Shug said — but the Ken Bjorge from Montana did fine work. (Here he is working on the Heisman bust which is a bit of disembodied creepiness.)

Maybe the best part is the strategic positioning, with the official Heisman portrait of each man looking over the statue. Nice touch.