Mother's Day adventures

Here are some pics we took on Mother's Day 2009. We went on an adventure in Macon County where we grew up and where our parents still live.

This is the steeple of one of the Twin Churches in Montezuma, GA. There used to be two churches that looked exactly alike next to each other and this one is said to be the haunted one.


Menacing looking front door.






Our niece Jessi going in.


The sanctuary.




This door opened by itself with a lot of force when Jessi, Ginger, and Ami first got inside and bounced against that big heater. There was no wind blowing.


I'm not sure what this used to be. I think it's just a storage shed and it might still be in use.


Ami took this one out on a dirt road. I love the colors.

Cinematic Titanic

We went and saw Cinematic Titanic with our friends Melinda, Jill, and Doug. In case you don't know Cinematic Titanic is the original cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000 riffing on bad movies just like the good old days but better. Instead of just Joel and the bots we now get Joel Hodgson, Mary Jo Pehl, Frank Conniff, Trace Beaulieu, and Josh (J. Elivs) Weinstein. Here's a sample:



The show was fantastic! We had great seats, too. We were 6 rows back on the left side of the stage so we were about 15 feet from Joel, Josh, and Mary Jo. The movie was terrible (Danger on Tiki Island), but they made it hilarious. We expected that. One thing we didn't expect was the warm up act. It was a man named Gruber.

He was hilarious and all of us kept thinking that he was very familiar, we just couldn't place him. He put on a great set and we were in stitches.

After the movie there was a meet and greet that Ami and I stayed for. We were at the very back of the line but only had to wait about an hour. Gruber was also talking to people while we were waiting so we went and talked to him and got our picture taken with him. He was super nice as was everyone else.



Ami also got pictures of me with everyone.










It was great. Josh also said that they were going to be doing the live shows again next year as far as he knew and were probably coming back to Atlanta. Well, we'll be there!

We went out to the car and the shit really hit the fan after such an amazing night. First we had to wait until someone came out to even get into the parking deck, then we couldn't find the car. After walking around and riding the elevator several times we found it.

After that, we were leaving and found out that you have to pay $5 to get out of the deck! We didn't have any cash either! The guard (over the little speaker) said that he couldn't let us out and that we'd have to wait for someone else to leave and sneak out behind them. We freaked out but luckily some one came along a couple of minutes later and we followed them out. Quite an adventure!

Recent pictures

Here are some pictures that I took recently that I liked.

Beatrice in her box. I used available light and the handy flip out LCD of the Sony A350 to get the shot at that level.



This is QuadNot, one of our outside kitties. It was taken from a distance with our Tamron 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di lens. I haven't seen her in a few weeks and I'm worried about her.



The sun through an oak leaf in our side yard. I really just liked how the light shows through the leaf.



This is a rose bud on our miniature roses in a pot on our back patio. I just loved how they looked after the rain so I got some pictures. For the first few years these roses didn't do much blooming but for the past couple of years they've been really beautiful.