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My mother and me, in the snow, some decades ago at my grandparents’ home. I wonder who took this picture.
Perspective: My students are the same age, or older, as my mother is in this photograph.
Further perspective: When she was my age today, my mother had a 15-year-old son learning to drive. Frightening.
How she did it I’ll never know, but all of the things a mother must do, she did well. She’s a special lady.
And I don’t feel a day older. Just don’t stare at the silver in my hair, OK?
We found a cat under the Christmas tree! She found a toy … and ornaments.
And then we encouraged it by taking pictures. Allie being Allie, this was not encouragement. She hates the camera. Not that any cat enjoys a camera, but Allie has a knack for even knowing when the phone becomes more than a phone. And she will walk away.
They’re running numbers at Moe’s Original Barbecue in Lakeview. I hope they’re all coming to my table.
Sunset in Auburn.
That same sunset in Auburn, from the same spot. The difference was one haircut.
Auburn picked up the school’s third Heisman trophy tonight when Cam Newton was honored in New York. Before the most boring (and, this year, anti-climactic) made-for-television spectacle of a relatively useless award, The Yankee threw three frozen boxes of corn for touchdowns.
She celebrated on the back aisle of the grocery store.
All Auburn-themed today, as we are still enjoying the big game.
Toomer’s Corner, the morning after:
That’s Toomer’s Corner looking from the intersection of Magnolia and College. They’d already cleared up the shin-deep paper on the ground. We saw bits in trees beyond the library to the south and half a block up to the north. We saw bits on the ground this morning four blocks away.
Last night I was trying to take a picture down by Foy Union. I popped the flash on my camera and you could see the specks floating in the air. That’s two-tenths of a mile away, as the crow flies.
This could be a great Christmas card:
I wonder how much money you have to donate to Tiger’s Unlimited to get one of these:
