Merry Christmas from Smyrna!

Downtown City of Smyrna Christmas Tree

E very Christmas season, the City of Smyrna decorates the Village Green with a tree and various lighted figures. They also string lights in many of the trees, so it's quite pretty. I drove by there one morning, and it hit me that I've been wanting to photograph the tree for a couple of years now.

We Salute You

Marietta National Cemetery

I rarely watch the news anymore—too depressing, but I just happened to catch a segment before changing channels that caught my attention. They were at Marietta National Cemetery and wreaths were being placed in front of the headstones. This was part of a nationwide tradition: Wreaths Across America. Although 5,000 wreaths sounds like a lot, they explained that they didn't have the funds to have one for every one of the over 18,000 that are buried there.

Gobble, Gobble, Part Two

Wild turkey in the cul-de-sac.

When I was working on the calendar project, I went to a farm in rural Georgia to photograph turkeys. Who knew that I could have photographed them outside my house. I live in a typical suburb where there really should only be domestic animals—and on leashes. But lately, it seems that every time I turn around, I see some type of new wildlife. Wild turkeys, however, were very unexpected.