It’s a weird holiday break. The Medium Boy has wandered north, the Girl Child is a little grumpy and I’m not making a visit to family for the first time since … well … 1996? I’m okay with this, the quiet time is good. We’ll celebrate when the boy returns in a few days.

The back of our house faces easterly, the late afternoon light at some points in the year is just wonderful.

Faded signs and fresh, light paint downtown.

Many things to see today as I visited the newsroom of the Times-Courier in Ellijay and then headed to the movies with the Mrs.

Some downtown locations are stable, some are not, some never will be.

A good visit, learned a lot, could have stayed longer to explore how the city is rebuilding itself, much like it’s news source.

A road trip to Birmingham, early on the road so I took the high way through the hills around Talladega.