East Tennessee

Our topography here is of course much different than in Florida. Just wanted to show a bit of our scenery from our walks on the Boy Scout Trail near Tellico Lake last week.

Another favorite shot from the wedding

I don't know why, I just like this.

Hiking

Our neighbor Judy - who is only here part-time - is back in town today. We went for two walks.

The first was a mile and a quarter one across the top of the earthen part of the dam (twice). Then home for lunch and a few errands, then back out again into the lovely, lovely warm and sunny day for a three-mile jaunt through hilly woods with lake views - sometimes on both sides of the trail.

So that makes five miles for me today ... the first time in quite awhile that I have gone that far.

Then, more heaven! I took advantage of our Japanese -style soaking tub. I even used the handy accordion-folding-style plastic top for the tub (from Brian and Tracy from Japan) to keep the water hot until I could get into it to soak. Ahhh.

Life is truly good.

Rainbow

This is my favorite shot from Mollie's wedding. I took this from the parking lot as we were going into the venue.

Honestly, this one was not photo-shopped! (well, except I did erase a white car that happened to be in it. But the rainbow and that gorgeous red tree are just as they were!)

By the way, the photos will ALL be on Snapfish soon. I wanted to get the album done and sent to Mollie before I put all of them out there. And I did get it finished a couple of days ago.

Oh, and I am deleting and cropping and such, so it shouldn't be too painful to go through them.

We're home again

Well, we're back in Tennessee, and watching rain for the first time in over three months!

We missed the dogwoods and the Bradford pear tree blooms, but the redbuds are in their glory, and were all the way across the mountains on our trip.

We detoured around to Daytona Beach on the way home, visiting our friends the Boazes. A lovely time; they are super folks.

I've been buried (literally) in my latest Big Project ... fixing my photos from Mollie's wedding last fall, and uploading them to the Kodak site to be printed into a wedding album. I had just installed a new(er) version of Photoshop this winter, and have been on a trip of discovery, seeing what I can do with it. I finally got the book (for "dummies") and it is very easy to follow. My favorite thing was to add a pretty sunset behind a few of the outside group shots of the wedding party. Mollie really wanted one, and did her best to schedule the time and place for the ceremony to give her a shot at it, but after an all-day rain, the weather cleared up just a bit ... mostly gray skies with even darker gray clouds. So I was pleased to "fix" it for her.

I also was able to use a bunch of candid shots after I "erased" the motley groups of other guests, waiters and exit signs from behind the folks I wanted to feature. Much, much easier with this version than my really old one.

Remind me never to do a wedding again, though. Stakes are too high, tension is too great. I'm glad I did this one, and I did end up with a bunch of family-group photos to share with various relatives, so all was not for naught.