Georgia Photos

Photo taken inside the Smith House.

There are two places I love to eat, the Smith House and the Dillard House. They both serve old Southern dishes in the family style which means that they put family sized portions in dishes and have you pass them around the table.

The Smith house has made the news recently with the discovery of an old mining shaft under its basement. The old story goes that no one really knew how the founders got their money and mining was not allowed in the city of Dahlonega. Rumors had it that the founder had found gold under his house and mined it. With the proceeds he created the house. Whether or not there is gold under there, finding the shaft struck gold for the Smith house as it pushed it into the news again. When I was there several months a go, they were expanding.

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Daisies are the perpetual harbinger of early summer.  Although they are almost gone in my yard, several weeks a go they were great.  My daughter is not quite old enough to care about boyfriends, but when she does, I’m sure she’ll pick up the old southern habit of using flower petals to determine if his love is true!

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The Braves are in the middle of a losing streak, so I thought I’d turn to one of their past heroes for some good luck. Warren Spahn is one of the greatest pitchers in history, and his great statue is right outside Turner Field.

Go Braves!

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I let my cat out for a few minutes this evening, and a mockingbird became very upset. My poor cat wanted nothing to do with the bird, but that bird was determined to chide my cat as much as possible.

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