Friday, October 12, 2007

I'm back!

Here is my old Nisson truck, going on 14 years, over 135 thousands mile.

Here I am, going on 68 years, over a million miles on the odometer.

This is our stairs -- a challenge for both of us. The cats, however, run up these steps like flying.

This is one of the best part of living where we are, this wide street.

A picture I recently took one morning in the early hours when the morning traffic was heading to work. This view is why I live driving on my job.

Another view of the county road that I never get tire of seeing.

I am a passenger in this van as my fellow worker is driving me to pick up my van at the shop in downtown Augusta. She is our youngest driver, a mother of two young kids. Needless to point out, there's always something going on in the streets, here a semi is blocking the traffic as it tries to back up into a parking area.

A funeral procession where other drivers show respect by pulling off the road. Just a good sight to see and a reminder how things were in Mississippi.

Yes, that is a Mississippi car in front of me.

Here is my van in the shop to have a back emergency door knob repaired.

I took this picture to try to show how long the shop is. Elwood would have enjoyed working here.

The shop has an old dog that comes to work with one of the workers. He was adorable and so friendly but walked very slowly. His tail, however, wag as active as if he was a year old. I was told he is 15 years old.

The dogs owner was on the phone while holding the dog like a baby and I just had to get this picture.

Augusta is a redneck kind of city.

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Here is all that is left from King Solomon's Great Temple, this piece of wall after the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70A.D. It is called The Wailing Wall:


Tommy White sent me this picture showing the way Sontag looked long before we were born I am sure.

I have tried to enlarge it and preserve the integrity of the picture. I can recognize some of the buildings that I remembered as a small kid (click on it to see it enlarged):

This tower for cats has really surprised us because it is merely a couple of cloth like shelves hanging in this structure but the cats have gone nuts to get on and sleep as you can see. Even Lucy, our youngest member, has already gotten on the middle shelf and taken quite a few naps herself:

Today at the local park several of the county organizations had a day of exibiting their services and products for the handicap. One of them has pocketalkers that the agent had me to put on and it was awesome to hear him talk so clearly without any of the surrounding sounds and be able to hear him talking in the office while I went down the hall a ways. I will be borrowing it soon to try it out on the bus and at church. This building at the park is a casino that is used for bingo and other events:

On my way back home while walking I was on this street bridge over the Calhoun Expressway and took a picture of downtown Augusta:

Probably the most relaxed cat we have ever had, Puffy:

Here are more views of the bowl rim that I see on my job driving around the rural part of the county:



This house blows my mind. It is just a wee bit too done up. It looks like a florist shop out in the middle of the neighborhoood!

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Window Shopping

Here are some pictures I took while "window shopping" down Broad Street today: