Lazy Sunday

Daddy and daughter, muggin' for the camera

 This past Sunday was great! No agenda other than to take things as they came. Well, I say that. The first priority of the day was to watch the 109th edition of Paris-Roubaix, arguably the most important one-day bike race of the year. It's a beautiful, bone-rattling, 140 mile race that takes riders over the hardest cobbled roads in the north of France. In the end, a dark horse from one of my favorite teams took the honors (and immediately proposed marriage to his girlfriend- seriously! That's a good day!).

Man, what a feeling...

Once it was over, my patient wife and daughter and I talked about what to do with a beautiful, warm Sunday morning. Hannah suggested we get something to eat.

Giraffe- not on Mommy and Daddy's menu.

So we bundled the baby into the stroller and headed off to a nice little brunch place, Ike & Jane, just a 10 minute walk from the house in Normaltown.* Nature was putting on a show. It seems everything was blooming: dogwoods pink & white, azaleas, irises, cameleas, flox, verbena, roses, tulips, everywhere was washed with color.

This is why we put up with the summers. There's no more beautiful place on earth.

  

Our new toy. Finally, daddy can run with Little Miss.

A good day for sweet tea... and some egg & cheese biscuits.

A shot through the mesh of the stroller. One pic, two Simpson girls.

  

We ran into all kinds of people on our walk. Athens is a small town. Have you heard it said that we are all separated by 6 degrees? Well, in Athens you can narrow that down to two... simply because everybody knows this guy!

Handlebar mustache and a unicycle- yup, Athens.

The azaleas offer their swatch.

 It was then home to wind down towards nap time.

Counting toes or reading? I dunno. It's just a cute shot.

More soon.
-r

*Normaltown was originally the next stop on the rails up from Athens. It takes its name from the State Normal school there. Many of the original buildings are still there and have been under the protection of the US Navy Supply Corps for the last 57 years. They just vacated the premises last week, though, to make room for Athens' new Med School. We truly have it all now.