Downtown Atlanta

 I had the opportunity recently to spend a week in downtown Atlanta. Each evening was spent walking around that magnificent downtown with all its skyscrapers. For a country boy like me, it was quite a sight.  Anyway, these photos may bore you silly, but I love shooting the architectural angles of buildings such as these. There are just so many textures and patterns and colors and....

 I call this one Ebony and Ivory. Taken from my hotel balcony on a stormy night.

 This is my favorite.

Vicksburg Flood 2011: The Water Marks

 Here are some photos taken this morning of the high water marks left at City Front and on the old depot. You are welcome to go take these photos yourself, but get ready to be assaulted by more gnats than you knew existed.

 This is what remains of the rose bush that was featured in some of my earlier photos. It didn't make it.

 When the floodwater creasted at 57.1 feet, the storage building next to this house was not visible.