Snow!

Well, we finally got a good snow out here in Atlanta. I know that many people might think me crazy, but I absolutely love the snow. It really makes my soul happy to be out in it and see it all around. There is something about breathing in that crisp cold air that just rejuvenates me. I forget how much I miss it and how important it is to me until I get back to it. So, needless to say, this weekend was wonderful for me! We got a couple inches here in Atlanta and though most of it has melted, my snow angel was still intact this morning in my front yard :) The first picture above is actually from Douglasville just West of Atlanta--where we are having out wedding in May. I just love the big old tree with its bare branches covered in snow. Pine trees are pretty in the snow, but there is something about a deciduous tree that strikes me. The second show is from a block away from my house in Atlanta showing just how hard it was snowing :)

Awww....

So, for those of you that haven't heard yet, I'm a gettin' married!!!! Yup, that's right...pigs are flying everywhere! We do not have a definite date yet, but Courtney and I will be married sometime next year. Yea!!!! This picture was taken by me just after the proposal :)

Down the Rabbit Hole

This weekend I joined a bunch of friends visiting Washington Farms in Watkinsville, GA. We went pumpkin picking and even braved the corn maze--a pretty good one as it took us 45 minutes to get through! At the end of the maze they had the Vortex Tunnel to walk through. It is similar to the ice cave on the Universal Studios Tour. Essentially you walk down the middle through a tube that is spinning pretty fast around you. With dots painted on it. And you get REALLY dizzy. It is really darned disconcerting even if you know what to expect. I took this shot at the beginning of the tunnel. The camera had no chance of focusing on the spinning craziness so I put it on manual and held it as steady as I could for an 8 second exposure. Trippy!!! Click on the picture to see it full screen and feel like you are there!!!

Athens Botanical Gardens

More purty stuff...this time from last weekend at the Georgia State Botanical Gardens in Athens!

Total Eclipse of the Heart

This is not my best image ever, but hey, the auto focus on my telephoto is broken so this was a manual focus guess :) Out here on the East Coast it cleared up enough to get a fairly red moon--this picture shows some of the red, but the sensor picked up more light than I was hoping for. This one shows the shadow a bit better:

The eclipse was nifty to see and we have to wait till 2010 for the next one!