Le Tour de Homewood

Edgewood Cycles' terrific wall display caused me to make a U turn on Oxmoor Road!

CREATE!!!

One of my favorite jobs is getting into the Vestavia schools for photos. I always beg for the Art Room. On a recent visit at Vestavia Hills Elementary West , I found some serious painters.

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." Picasso

Photogenic

Believe me, I have done my share of mowing, digging, weeding and raking. Now, with my camera, I enjoy the composition!

Amazing Evening

The Alabama Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Christopher Confessore, along with choirs from Red Mtn. Theatre's Youth Chorus, UAB, Samford and the ASO Chorus and the three featured soloists,  brought the packed audience to their feet Friday and Saturday night with their magnificent performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana!

Red, White and Blue

Homewood Antiques and Marketplace

Birmingham Is Dripping...

with wisteria. How fabulous.

Fitting Tribute

 

This sculpture by Birmingham artist Corday Parker is a fitting tribute to Tinsley R. Harrison, M.D.

Alabamian Tinsley R. Harrison (1900-1978) was one of the most influential physicians of the twentieth century. His worldwide fame rested primarily on his book Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, published in 1950 and reprinted 16 times and translated into 14 different languages. It remains the single-most-used and best-selling internal medicine text in the world. Harrison was the first chair of medicine and second dean at the Medical College of Alabama, now part of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

Fun Dining

You can have your prissy white table cloth restaurants, I'm making a reservation at Vestavia Hills Elementary Cahaba Heights' lunchroom. Pull up a colorful stool and dine with cute friends surrounded by the likes of Beethoven, Einstein and the Mona Lisa. There are more colorful characters vividly painted from children's books that I will share another day.

Spring Is Here

You know what that means.....get thee to the toolshed and start digging!

Happy Easter

Egg Hunt Overload

Eventually, it comes to this.

Good Friday

at the Upper Room Baptist Church in Irondale. For my readers around the world celebrating this very special day.

Après déjeuner

 

 Late Sunday lunch with friends in their 1860's cottage outside of Birmingham, surrounded by their wonderful collections and books. The kitchen hung with handmade baskets and lined with old crockery, copper pots and antiques, was the perfect setting. Good food, wine, conversation and time with special friends.

CDP Theme Day- Self Portrait

Ahhh the first day of the month and my City Daily Photoblog friends around the world are frantically digging around for a self portrait for this month's theme. I was about to bow out when I found this one from a recent photo shoot at the Henhouse Antiques where I love doing part-time work. We were photographing the wonderful pieces for a new online site last week, so here's my self portrait for today. I'm pleased to be framed by this gorgeous antique pediment mirror. For more of my fellow city daily photoblog friends' creative self portraits, click right HERE!