Saturday, November 17, 2007

The Colors Are Here

Here is a view of the colors from the parking lot where I pick up my van to drive for the day. All the pictures in today's entry were taken yesterday.

This is down a driveway of one of my riders.

The colors are showing on this favorite highway location.


This is a view I see almost everyday. I am actually parked at a rider's house and have just dropped him off.

This is a view from the grounds of the Veteran's Administration where I pick up two riders. Needless to say, this view still takes my breath away as it has done now for nearly a year of driving.

Same view showing the drive around the grounds of the VA.

My job of driving is never boring. I get to see some of the most interesting trucks.

This truck is hauling a big road machinery and the helper has to use a long pole to lift the lines crossine the road. This road had numerous lines as you can see more just ahead that has to be lifted. Lot of curves on hillsides in the country cause lines to criss cross like this.

This bucket has two line workers and it is unusual to me to see such height that they are working at.

Sometimes I see my reflection in the back of semi trucks and I thought I would take this one to let you see there is never a dull moment on the job.

I am actually parked on the highway by this field after dropping off a rider and this cloud of black birds was an awesome sight. They seem not to bump into each other and seem to keep the same equal distance from each other.

Here they have landed in the field that had been recently harvested. They make an image that look like a dried up muddy pond.

These next tow pictures of flowers were taken last Sunday in the garden at the Sacred Heart Cultural Center next to our church.


This sundial in the garden is showing the shadow of the metal road falling at 11AM which was the exact time the picture was taken.

Thought you might like to see one of our recent purchases at an antique shop in town. Those are Mama's plates and dishes. They have made it to Georgia now.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

A Mixture of Pictures 4U

One of many rodeo horses that was "moored" outside its trailer homes during a break at the annual event in the James Brown Arena. This is just across the street from our downtown post office.

Puffy asleep by his musketeer "boots". He has just as much fur under his paws as he does over them.

One of many Halloween exhibits in the county, this one at a house of a client who rides with me to and from work.

I kinda like the way this picture turned out, a truck loaded with pipes, the colors from blue on down to yellow and red. When you are bored of driving even a view like this can be a break!

We are down to these three vans currently but in January they are planning to replace all of our vans with shorter versions that will be wheelchair accessible and I would love to drive the wheelchair clients again as I did in Florida for 7 years, in fact, being mostly the only driver doing that.
One of many views on my drive taken from the "rim" on the bowl. That smoke stack is one that I go by every day to work.

One of my favorite client dropoff locations is this driveway through this small woods to his house. Feels so much like being in Mississippi.

Early one morning Linda and I drove by the fairgrounds and I got out and stuck my camera through the chain link fence and got this quiet moment at the fair.

This is one of my favorite streets in North Augusta, South Carolina, the view is looking across the bowl with Augusta in the bottom. This picture along with the next three pictures were taken as we headed down down down this street.







The colors of Autumn are just beginning at last, this is in one of my favorite views out in the county.

You can really see the colors in this view taken from a porch on the third floor of a church.

I know, I know, another view shot.

I drove by one of the all glass medical buildings and saw my reflection, opened the door and took this shot.

I brought in a bunch of sticks and little limbs from the back yard to build our first fire in the fireplace. Needless to say the cats had a ball smelling and chewing on the sticks.

The first fire!

Not only was traffic bumper to bumper on the expressway I was on but the Interstate 20 crossing over ahead was bumper to bumper.

Augusta is having a very long drought and this is typical of what ponds and lakes look like around the county.

I walked one morning down to the transit office to drop off the money collected from the day before and this painting was on the side of the street up a grassy embankment with broken glass still in the frame. I thought the picture was fascinating and brought it home and hung it up.



Here is Lucy, the one day old kitten that we adopted who still had the after birth attached to her stomack. That one back spot on her back leg is the only way we can tell her apart from Ducey who has two black spots on his leg. Lucy continues to be adorable and just a joy to have as she thinks she is human and gets involved into everything we are doing. She thinks I am her mom and gets on my lap and lays flat against my chest when I am on the computer.

There are times Linda and I are forced out of our bedroom to find a place to sleep.

Here is a drawing that Violet, our granddaughter, drew recently of Audrey Hepburn that she sent by email the other day. She has been drawing from the beginning as a little kid and Linda and I have quite a collection of her drawings that we have saved over the years.