Lovely Day

Got to Banner Elk very late Thursday night and woke up early this morning to enjoy a few minutes of quiet around the yard. I was able to catch some fun flowers, and really put my macro lens to work... but the piece d'resistance might have been watching the hummingbirds as they fed at my parents' feeders. They were skitish and funny, but very drawn to the sweetness that fed their very calorie hungry bodies. This red-throated fella flew the whole time (which seems a lot like running your car while filling up with gas) while some of his compadres simply sat and drank in the pure cane. We wouldn't dare give them high-fructose corn syrup — look what's it's done to the youth of America.

After cleaning the car (which caused a near hysterical reaction within the family that had never seem me wash a car), the kids and I went to northern Ashe County to meet my elementary school classmate and her husband and their three kids. They have this great cabin that is their home during the summer (they normally are in Georgetown, Kentucky) and the kids all had the best time. Mary Kathryn fell in love with fried potatoes and Drew initiated a huge water-balloon fight that got all six kids (Kaylee joined us for the fun and festivities) soaking wet.

Besides that rob job that the Ghana team suffered at the hands of the FIFA refs, it truly was a lovely day.