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bubbles
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leaf
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with flash
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without flash
Posted by mountainmelody On 12/24/2005 05:51:00 PM 0 comments

gumballs

score!

Posted by mountainmelody On 12/22/2005 09:28:00 PM 3 comments
My dad randomly got out his will tonight. Apparently he hasn't looked at it in, um, several years.

It says that if he died, everything should go to his "dear, beloved wife."

If she's not available, everything goes to me.

My brother is never mentioned. Apparently he hadn't been born yet when my dad made his will. (Either that, or my dad likes me a whole lot better!)
Posted by mountainmelody On 12/20/2005 10:03:00 PM 1 comments

tree

Encouraging news

Posted by mountainmelody On 12/20/2005 10:48:00 AM 1 comments
According to the National Climatic Data Center, the probability of a White Christmas is officially zero at Birmingham, Anniston and Tuscaloosa.
Posted by mountainmelody On 12/16/2005 07:19:00 PM 0 comments

i hope you wanted to see pictures of our christmas tree
Posted by mountainmelody On 12/16/2005 07:18:00 PM 0 comments

decorated
Posted by mountainmelody On 12/16/2005 07:12:00 PM 0 comments

cutting down the tree
Posted by mountainmelody On 12/15/2005 03:39:00 PM 0 comments

try not to act too surprised by another picture of pine needles
Posted by mountainmelody On 12/13/2005 09:51:00 PM 0 comments

It's definitely wintertime. You're going to be seeing a lot of pictures of pine trees.

this week

Posted by mountainmelody On 12/11/2005 08:08:00 PM 2 comments
4 luncheons
3 Christmas parties
3 rehearsals
3 magazine deadlines

Sometimes I wonder why this stuff can't be spread out more throughout the year, when I'm sitting at home doing nothing.

Oh well--Let the fun begin! Merry Christmas!
Posted by mountainmelody On 12/11/2005 08:07:00 PM 0 comments

tire

my terrible, horrible, no good, very bad morning

Posted by mountainmelody On 12/09/2005 09:39:00 PM 1 comments
7:25—Start scraping ice off my car. Realize the driver’s door is iced shut.

7:30—Discover that kicking the door has no effect. Get in from the passenger’s side and get ready for a busy, stressful day at work.

7:50—Hear a loud “whoosh” sound while driving down the interstate. Realize the door is no longer iced shut but instead is partially open.

7:51—Hold the door closed.

7:52—Open and close the door while driving down the interstate at 65 MPH.

8:00—Hear reports of three accidents in a row (for no apparent reason) on 459. Slow to a crawl.

8:10—Listen to the radio.

8:20—Look out the window.

8:30—Call in late to work. “Oh, you must be on the ‘parking lot’ of 280!” No—I haven’t actually made it that far. Excited to hear there are wrecks there as well.

8:35—Start working via cell phone. In mid-sentence, hear honking and discover that my tire is going flat.

8:36—Pull off to the side of the on-ramp onto 280.

8:37—Curse myself for not being strong enough to take the tire off myself.

8:38—Call my insurance’s roadside assistance program. Put on hold.

8:42—Vow to take vitamins to increase strength.

8:46—Call answered; transferred.

8:47—Put on hold.

8:56—Talk to roadside assistance. Learn that the closest truck can come in 1.5 to 2 hours because of “bad weather in your area.” Find this interesting since there is no bad weather.

8:58—Wonder why I pay extra for this program.

9:04—Take the spare and the jack out of the trunk. Try to look pitiful.

9:09—Watch thousands of commuters go by. Later learn I made the radio traffic report.

9:20—Receive help in the form of two nice guys. (…not that it mattered at this point whether they were nice or not--)

9:35—Drive to the tire center at Walmart, where my tire is later patched.

9:50—Receive a ride from a kindhearted coworker who took pity on me.

10:00—Arrive at work.

my favorite road sign

Posted by mountainmelody On 12/08/2005 08:01:00 PM 0 comments
on one of those portable signs with flashing orange letters:

Road Work Ahead

a few seconds later...

Happy Holidays!
Posted by mountainmelody On 12/07/2005 09:19:00 PM 0 comments

glow
Posted by mountainmelody On 12/06/2005 09:43:00 PM 0 comments

leaf

trivia

Posted by mountainmelody On 12/05/2005 07:04:00 AM 0 comments
Two-thirds of the world's population today was not alive in 1969.
Posted by mountainmelody On 12/04/2005 09:54:00 PM 1 comments

pine
Posted by mountainmelody On 12/02/2005 10:05:00 PM 0 comments

red

from an email I got today

Posted by mountainmelody On 12/01/2005 08:15:00 PM 0 comments
You do great at being straight with people!! I think you need to give a seminar about speaking directly and overcoming Southern "politeness."


Hmm....I'm not exactly sure what I think about that...

sun

Posted by mountainmelody On 11/29/2005 09:25:00 PM 1 comments

couldn't have said it better myself

Posted by mountainmelody On 11/27/2005 08:59:00 PM 0 comments
sign I saw today:

drugs...
alcohol...
incompetence...
KILL
Posted by mountainmelody On 11/26/2005 05:06:00 PM 2 comments

tree
Posted by mountainmelody On 11/23/2005 10:30:00 AM 0 comments

branches
Posted by mountainmelody On 11/22/2005 09:29:00 PM 0 comments

fallen trees
Posted by mountainmelody On 11/22/2005 07:02:00 AM 1 comments
Does it bother anyone else that Birmingham was ranked the 10th most dangerous city in the US? Apparently it's more dangerous than LA, New York, Chicago, or--well, most other places.
Posted by mountainmelody On 11/20/2005 06:25:00 PM 0 comments

shadow

forest

Posted by mountainmelody On 11/19/2005 10:57:00 AM 0 comments

frog (from a while back)

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tree and water
Posted by mountainmelody On 11/11/2005 09:36:00 PM 0 comments

fallen tombstones
Posted by mountainmelody On 11/11/2005 09:34:00 PM 0 comments

tombstone
Posted by mountainmelody On 11/11/2005 09:31:00 PM 0 comments

here are a few more random tombstones from when we were in boston

top five

Posted by mountainmelody On 11/10/2005 07:32:00 PM 0 comments
I spend too much time driving and too much time thinking random thoughts while driving. So here's my random thought of the day:

Five ways I would be most likely to have a wreck:
1. hitting a deer
2. merging onto 280
3. anything else on 280
4. ritual morning brake-stomp on 59
5. high-speed blow-out on 459
Posted by mountainmelody On 11/09/2005 09:46:00 PM 0 comments

fall (new hampshire, but it's been looking like this here)

at least I'm a girl...

Posted by mountainmelody On 11/08/2005 09:42:00 PM 1 comments
A recent American academic study suggested that for men today, adolescence continues on average until the age of 34.
Posted by mountainmelody On 11/06/2005 04:02:00 PM 0 comments

sand

and that's just people in birmingham...

Posted by mountainmelody On 11/05/2005 05:43:00 PM 0 comments
Birmingham residents had the third-longest average commute in the nation in 2001 - 34 miles round-trip.
Posted by mountainmelody On 11/04/2005 07:14:00 AM 0 comments

water
Posted by mountainmelody On 11/03/2005 07:35:00 PM 0 comments

ocean
Posted by mountainmelody On 11/02/2005 09:28:00 PM 0 comments

boat
Posted by mountainmelody On 11/01/2005 08:50:00 PM 0 comments

bridge
Posted by mountainmelody On 10/31/2005 09:25:00 PM 0 comments
Who decided we should go home in the dark for almost half the year??

I wonder this every year. And then I turn on my lights.
Posted by mountainmelody On 10/30/2005 03:41:00 PM 0 comments

"camouflage" tree (philadelphia)

on the ubiquity of camouflage

Posted by mountainmelody On 10/30/2005 03:33:00 PM 0 comments
Are you still looking for a Halloween costume? Live in Alabama? Try camouflage. (Everyone else is!)

Two recent sightings:
  • A boy wearing just a camouflage outfit, who claimed to be dressed up as a "weird sort of witch."
  • A "ghost" at a haunted house, who had on a camouflage shirt and pants to go along with his scary mask.

Too bad I don't have any camouflage to wear tomorrow. On the other hand, I'm not sure if I want to blend in this time...

some random facts for your saturday

Posted by mountainmelody On 10/29/2005 02:23:00 PM 0 comments
People in Alabama have a general interest in almost all sports—the state is second only to Nevada in the amount of money that its citizens bet on sports, despite the fact that in Alabama, unlike Nevada, sports gambling is illegal.

90 percent of the state’s citizens describe themselves as college football fans. To understand what an absolute minority nonfans are in Alabama, consider this: they are outnumbered there by atheists.
Posted by mountainmelody On 10/29/2005 12:29:00 PM 0 comments

I've been going back through pictures from my trip.
Posted by mountainmelody On 10/27/2005 07:45:00 PM 0 comments

yellow
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tree
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red (alabama)
Posted by mountainmelody On 10/21/2005 08:40:00 AM 0 comments

another thing you have to look out for

what i learned

Posted by mountainmelody On 10/21/2005 08:32:00 AM 1 comments
did you know that...
  • if you order tea in Boston you get hot tea?
  • New Hampshire advertises state liquor stores on billboards?
  • some signs in Vermont are in both French and English?
  • some signs in Vermont are only in kilometers?
  • road planners in Massachusetts are very fond of rotaries (traffic circles)?
  • you have to watch out for moose crossing the road in New England?
Posted by mountainmelody On 10/19/2005 10:23:00 PM 0 comments

the cabin where we stayed last night
Posted by mountainmelody On 10/19/2005 10:20:00 PM 0 comments

i can now also tell you how they make apple cider...
Posted by mountainmelody On 10/19/2005 10:17:00 PM 0 comments

each year, a tree will fill the five buckets with sap. this only makes enough syrup to fill the quart jar at the bottom. (do you feel smarter now?)
Posted by mountainmelody On 10/19/2005 10:15:00 PM 0 comments

we learned how they make maple syrup
Posted by mountainmelody On 10/19/2005 10:14:00 PM 0 comments

sheep
Posted by mountainmelody On 10/19/2005 10:08:00 PM 0 comments

covered bridge
Posted by mountainmelody On 10/19/2005 10:06:00 PM 0 comments

leaves (pictures can't really capture how pretty they were in person)

back

Posted by mountainmelody On 10/19/2005 09:53:00 PM 0 comments
This morning in Vermont, I heard, "It will probably snow at higher elevations today."

This afternoon on one leg of my flight, I heard, "The temperature in Nashville is 90 degrees."

From a sweatshirt and coat to a t-shirt and shorts...I'm home!
Posted by mountainmelody On 10/17/2005 07:42:00 PM 0 comments

sunset
Posted by mountainmelody On 10/17/2005 07:39:00 PM 0 comments

view from the place we're staying
Posted by mountainmelody On 10/17/2005 07:38:00 PM 0 comments

harvard
Posted by mountainmelody On 10/17/2005 07:37:00 PM 0 comments

fun times on the "t"

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