It was 44 degrees this morning on Anastasia Island, the coldest yet of the season. Tonight is to be a little colder, maybe in the high 30's with possibility of wind and rain. It all makes for the continuation of autumn and the coming of winter, still a month away.
Hannah and I will leave tomorrow about an hour ahead of the 6:56am sunrise. We'll stop in Tallahassee to pick up Max and then arrive in Dothan midday. I am considering departing the interstate in Tallahassee and driving US-90 to Marianna, then back on the usual route. Max and Hannah have never been through Mt. Pleasant, Chattahoochee, Sneads, or Grand Ridge. It will be a part of Florida they can add to their experience and to their life experiences they will be able to say "Yeah, I spent some time in Chattahoochee."
With the commencement of the bookend holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas, there is the start of reminisces of holiday's past. Only natural. Unavoidable.
I don't ever remember traveling back to Dothan for the holiday, or traveling at all really, except when I left home and would return, as I am doing tomorrow.
One Thanksgiving in particular comes to mind as regards the whole family: 1973, when Ronald brought Travis to Madison to meet the family for the first time.
Hannah and I will leave tomorrow about an hour ahead of the 6:56am sunrise. We'll stop in Tallahassee to pick up Max and then arrive in Dothan midday. I am considering departing the interstate in Tallahassee and driving US-90 to Marianna, then back on the usual route. Max and Hannah have never been through Mt. Pleasant, Chattahoochee, Sneads, or Grand Ridge. It will be a part of Florida they can add to their experience and to their life experiences they will be able to say "Yeah, I spent some time in Chattahoochee."
With the commencement of the bookend holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas, there is the start of reminisces of holiday's past. Only natural. Unavoidable.
I don't ever remember traveling back to Dothan for the holiday, or traveling at all really, except when I left home and would return, as I am doing tomorrow.
One Thanksgiving in particular comes to mind as regards the whole family: 1973, when Ronald brought Travis to Madison to meet the family for the first time.
Another one comes to mind for my branch of the tree: 1996 with a trip to Long Island, spending a couple of days in NYC and witnessing the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, and then trekking to western New Jersey to visit Lauren's dad. Photo on the left is the mad-dash from the parade to Penn Station to return to Long Island. The photo on the right is from the day after Thanksgiving at Sargentsville Bridge over the Wickecheoke Creek, the only 19th century wooden covered bridge in the state.
The temperature has dropped to 47 degrees after a high today of 50 degrees. The wind is picking up out of the northeast and a roaring fire of coastal oak burns hot in the fireplace as darkness moves over the island. It will be a cozy night before traveling tomorrow, over the river and through the woods.
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The mad-dash from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to Penn Station for the return to Long Island, 1996 .
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The day after Thanksgiving, 1996, at Sargentsville Bridge over the Wickecheoke Creek, the only 19th century wooden covered bridge in the state.
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