Sleeping on the back porch, weekend recap and watching

- This sleepy cat on the back porch of a nearby antiques shop.  There was a wide-eyed gray kitten, too, who disappeared under the swing just before I snapped the shot through the back door window.  The owner says the kitten belonged to another cat, who has vanished, so she and this shop cat take care of it.

- Friday night dinner, Saturday morning walking, antiquing, The Flight of the Monarch Butterflies at the Fernbank Museum IMAX theater, Rummikub, Saturday night dinner, Sunday morning walking, church (where everyone said we look just alike), brunch, more Rummikub and then...

- Watching my sister's car until it leaves my sight.  It is our family custom to do this with each other when we depart.

Snowman, another tour day and the mountain

- Seen in one of the bedrooms at a bed and breakfast called Silver Hill Manor in nearby Stone Mountain, Georgia - this "snowman" that began as a lighted Christmas tree.  Someone added black boots and the rest of the items that make a truly unique display.

- This is Silver Hill - one of the homes on the tour of homes this weekend sponsored by the Stone Mountain Woman's Club.  Friend Barbara D and I toured six homes that included lunch at the clubhouse (very genteel - chicken salad on a croissant.)  :)  And the best part was - I was 10 minutes from home when we were done.

- A "through the windshield" shot of Stone Mountain that I've posted before.  I walk at this park sometimes. The mountain is granite that extends 9.5 miles underground into the surrounding counties.  You see outcroppings of granite popping up here and there.  I think we are lucky to have such a great park, but I wish it was part of the national park system - it's getting commercialized with items like a frontier village and man-made snow "ski" slope.  Still lovely though.