Going to Georgia...

We're going to Georgia for a week, to see our families.   We're going to surprise my father-in-law for his 70th birthday.  

Meanwhile, I thought I'd leave a tribute to Georgia in the form of a Flannery O'Connor quote.  I really can't think of anyone who I think understands the South better than she does:

"Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.  To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological.  That is a large statement, and it is dangerous to make it, for almost anything you say about Southern belief can be denied in the next breath with equal propriety.  But approaching the subject from the standpoint of the writer, I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.  The Southerner, who isn't convinced of it, is very much afraid that he may have been formed in the image and likeness of God."  

The photo above is of the church where my great-grandparents are buried.  After I published it, I realized how very much it contrasts with my header photo.  I like the contrast.