Another Day at Stone Mountain

We went to Stone Mountain again today! Here are some pics:

Jupiter and Jessica Cuddling on the Sofa

2016 Family Reunion

Today Elyse and Jessica and I went to my aunt JoAnne's house for our annual family reunion. (Anna stayed home to rest because she's had a tiring and stressful couple of weeks.) There were about forty-five people there, all of them related to us in one way or another, and also one dog, which Jessica and Elyse had a good time playing with, until he got wound up and almost knocked Elyse down. ("Daddy, I just like little dogs. I don't like big dogs," she said to me as we were leaving.) There were also a couple of other little girls that they had a good time playing with, though Elyse was disappointed she didn't get to be the #1 Secret Agent.

Here are some pictures from the day:

Vines Gardens Haiku 5

Fuzzy hanging fruit
and a twisted, knotty trunk--
what is this strange plant?

Vines Gardens Haiku 4

Abandoned hothouse
at the edge of the gardens--
weeds prosper there now.

Three Vines Gardens Haiku

Selfie by the lake

as summer makes its exit

this lazy Wednesday.

Faded red flowers

of plastic still standing watch

the boy now long dead.

Essays left to grade:

sixty. Yet the air is cool,

this swing, inviting.