Month: July 2007

Conor O’Brien, a landscape artist from north Alabama, emailed me this week to show me a couple of really interesting photographs he had taken – one is of a home he calls “tiny house” on North Rampart in New Orleans – and the other is taken in Madison, Alabama – this you really have to see…

The July/August issue of Delta Magazine has an article about baptisms on Moon Lake, where “for over 100 years baptisms have taken place…every Sunday in August and on the first Sunday in September”.

What is just fascinating about the piece are the photographs included.

Some of them are by Bill Steber. Everything in his gallery is just great.

If you have a minute, go to Jack Spencer’s website and click on the gallery called “native soil” – it’s a series of photographs taken largely in Mississippi. Amazing.

I got a press release emailed to me from Tinwood’s PR agency that the quilts that Lucinda Pettway Franklin had filed suit over have now been returned.

The Arnetts had the quilts appraised and it was found that they were probably not made prior to the 1950s, which means that Lucinda’s grandmother (who died in 1943) couldn’t have done them.

The complete press release can be found here (a Mobile Press-Register article about their return is here) and another press release about a motion that was filed by the Arnetts to dismiss the lawsuit can be found here. The Montgomery Advertiser has a story about a federal judge later ordering that the quilts’ value be determined by July 20th to see if the case can be heard in federal court (since the value must equal at least $75,000).

I wonder how that is going to turn out…

Well, Shug is taking a nap right now (that may last a couple of minutes or a couple of hours!) so I wanted to post a few more pics…

Our son had his bris last week. Leslie got him this *gorgeous* gown to wear that I am going to have framed in a shadowbox. He’s wrapped in a blue blanket that Tobie knit, and although they don’t show in this pic, he is wearing the blue booties that Camille knit, too!

He did really-really great. I on the other hand, cried through the whole thing!

We are just soooo in love!

I’ll be calling the baby “Shug” from now on in my blog. I know lots of people use their children’s initials or a nickname for privacy reasons on their blogs, and I’m going to be the protective mommy too, and do the same. My PawPaw called me “Shugie” growing up (“Shug” is pronounced like the first syllable of “sugar”) and so the entire time Av and I were pregnant with the baby, we called him “Shug” since we didn’t find out if it was a girl or a boy – and it was easier than always saying “he” or “she”!

Our baby’s here! The name will be announced at the bris later this week, but our happy and healthy son was born weighing 7lbs, 15oz and 21-1/2″ long!

We are at home now and can not get enough of our new baby – I just wanted to take two minutes to post this pic taken of him just a couple of hours after labor!