All Along Hwy 22, or Project 365 - Week 2

Week 2 is over for Project 365 and my camera and I have been joined at the hip all week long.  I have been using my little Nikon Cool Pix.  I got it to travel with because it is so easy to use, I can slip it into my carry on, and it weighs nearly nothing.  I think I am going to try my Minolta Digital for Week 3 and see if there is anything different about my pictures...and then I may try my Minolta old school camera....the one that actually uses film.  What a concept.  My week has been productive....this was our first week back at school since December 17th and it has been a tough one.  I have come home every night....sharing pictures with my precious Frank, and crashing....if I could.  I sort of had a theme for the week and the majority of my pictures came from my ride to or from school....down Hwy 22.  Thanks Sara for hosting this.  If you get a chance visit her site and check out the other participants pictures....Wait...maybe don't...then you will think I am a wonderful photographer....just kidding.  Here is my week in pictures.

Sunday

The parsonage is bordered on two sides by a pasture owned by Towler Farms.  Sunday morning before six I was outside with my camera in hopes to catch a pretty sunrise....what I got was Keith and Chris's barn.  I thought it had an almost mirror like face on it.  You can see the puffy white clouds and the sun peeking out.  It was such a peaceful shot I had to include it....oh...and it is located on Hwy 22.

Monday

This was my view on Monday evening when I was headed home.  The sun was setting behind me....and I was in a heavily treed area.  "The road is long...with many a winding turn...that leads me to who knows where...who knows where."  Bee Gees.  This is one of the most peaceful times of the day. When we got home we went to Beth(our church pianist) and Ron's so Beth could play and I could sing...and afterwards we went to Sonny's for dinner.  Roanoke does not have a ton of eating choices.  The food was good, the company was better.  I posted with this picture earlier in the week because I have such a thing about hands.

Tuesday

I was excited about Tuesday.  I had nothing to do tonight, Frank had a Firefighters meeting....and I was going to have some major down time.  It felt good.  On my way home on Hwy 22 I found a fascinating barn just outside of Daviston....and I am as fascinated by barns as I am by hands. 

Wednesday

Wednesday I started Mandolin lessons at Granddaddy's Music just outside of Roanoke on Hwy 22.  It is a neat place and I am excited about this new venture.  I have to really hustle because my lesson is at 4:30 and I am not supposed to leave school until 3:30...and it takes an hour for me to get home.  I was early on Wednesday because there was absolutely no traffic hendering me on Hwy 22.  I took the photo just before turning in to park.  When I left after my lesson...it was pitch black and I had to hustle to get home and get to church.  Wednesday was a busy, busy day.

Thursday

I bowl on a league on Thursday nights with my sweet Frank.  It used to be one of our only nights of togetherness back when my parents lived with us....but now we just enjoy it.  On Thursdays Frank takes me to work and I enjoy having someone else in the car with me.  He returns at 3:30 to pick me up, we run errands, go see my mom (this is Frank's only day to visit), and then eat supper and go bowl.  We get home somewhere around 10.  I head for bed because tomorrow is another day.  My ABFF lives on Hwy 22 too.  She just lives nearly 50 miles away from me.  We stopped by her house because there were some interesting things to photograph.  On her door was a Mardi Gras wreath....what kind of wreath do you put on your door after Christmas?....anyways, in her yard...was a remnant of Christmas...A Charlie Brown manger set.  I could not resist. I love Mardi Gras colors and have always loved Charlie Brown.  I kind of always felt like his soulmate.

Friday

The shadow of my little HHR looks like Shrek's head don't you think?  I thought the clouds and sun were

just lovely.  Don't you.  I spend two hours a day in my car....commuting back and forth from Roanoke to Alexander City and back....all along Hwy 22.  The scenery is awesome....and I have had people ask me how I could stand this ride....well, you have seen all the evidences of God's nature I am bombarded with on my daily road trip.  I can't imagine NOT riding it.

Saturday

My final day of the week to take pictures and I thought I would finish each week with a church sign.  Our church has a sign....so do about 10 others I pass every day down Hwy 22....but today, sitting in the same parking lot with us was a great sign at Rock Mills Baptist Church....right there on Hwy 22....so today's sign is theirs.  Have a blessed Sunday....and remember to save your fork....The best is yet to come!

Project 365 - Week 1

I have a new passion and it comes from it comes from Sara over at Make Music From Your Heart To The Lord  called Project 365.  I am so excited.  This project involves taking pictures and you all know I love doing that....you take one or more a day and then on Sunday post your weeks worth of pictures for an entire year!  Well....Ole Have Camera Will Travel Here has been on a tear this week.  I have been snapping pictures like mad and loving every minute of it!  I hope you will visit me every Sunday and see what I have been up to during the week.  Here goes this week and I hope you enjoy them.

Sunday

Normally my Sunday would have been about something we did at church.....but it snowed here and we have a number of people who would have had trouble getting to church....so we called it off.  The funny thing is that my cherished hubby, Frank, did not have to preach.....but I went to Wedowee First - 13 miles north...and filled the pulpit for two sermons.  This was a busy day and we had a lot to do to get ready for Winter Xtreme....one of those things was to take our boy, Beau (the doxie) to Marian's.  On the way there I noticed a cemetary that was covered in snow and Silent Night came to mind....the line, "Sleep in heavenly peace" kept racing through my mind so on the way back I asked Frank to stop so I could take a picture.

Monday

Monday morning we got up bright and early and headed to Gatlinburg and Winter Xtreme.  We took seven of our youth and although the hour was early....we were all excited to go.  One of the first things we saw in Gatlinburg was the sun finally peaking out from behind the clouds and showing off the snow covering on the trees.  It was such a God moment and absolutely breathtaking.

Tuesday

Tuesday in Gatlinburg was a day filled with God and ice.  The sidewalks were so slick and people were falling down everywhere.  I am such a klutz and really nervous about walking on ice so I found areas with no ice only snow.  Inside the Village Shopping Area in downtown Gatlinburg I saw a beautiful frozen fountain and could not resist adding it to my picture collection.

Wednesday

On Wednesday we wrapped up Winter Xtreme and headed back to Alabama.  There was STILL snow on the ground and ice on the roads.  As we approached this tunnel I had a feeling of what Winter Xtreme had been about.....I came from the darkness into the light!  I love tunnel pictures.  There is something about seeing from one end to the other.  It reminds me of the Third Day Song about "there's a light at the end of this tunnel....for you....for you." and I so agree....every time I have been at the end...I have seen the Light!

Thursday

Thursday we did things around the house because we had to go to a viewing in Montgomery in the afternoon.  We were planning to leave early enough to see my mom before going.  The distance from here to Montgomery via Auburn....or via Alex City is only a few miles and minutes.  It is nearly 2 hours both ways.  Frank worked diligently on the doll house while I did laundry and straightened up from where we had come in the night before and just dumped our belongings anywhere.  It was good to be home.

Friday

Friday was going to be a busy day.  For the past few years I have had a booth at Longleaf Antique Mall in Alex City with my friend, Mary.  Since I have moved to Roanoke it has just become a hassle to work it like it needs to be worked so I decided to drop this activity.  Since Friday was New Years Eve and the store would be closed on Saturday we had to go and get our stuff early.  We spent a little over an hour packing up my things and getting them loaded in the car and then we went searching for a barstool/higher chair for Frank.  He has been working on the doll house using a table chair and it is not high enough...so he has been standing and it has been killing his back.  We walked around Longleaf and found several stools in varying heights and sizes, padded and not padded, and then we rounded a corner and there it was, the perfect chair.

Saturday

On Saturday, New Years Day, we went to the church and got the sign changed and the bulletins printed.  We came home and Frank watched football and worked on the doll house in his new chair.  I took Christmas down.  Frank and I hauled all the tubs into the house and I took each room apart one at a time.  After I finished Frank repacked the storage room and I took the dining room table a part, vacuumed the rooms, and rolled my Santa rug....it was done!  I love decorating....and I am glad when it is put away.

The church sign picture is really the very first picture I took in 2011.  The ones from Sunday through Friday are actually 2010 pictures.....so let the photo shoots begin.  I am looking forward to linking up with the others and checking out their photos.  Happy Photographing!