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Root, root, root
Lovely weekend, weather-wise, for being outdoors. I shot a brief video of the ambiance: Boomerang bubbles with @lmrsmith A video posted by Kenny Smith (@kennydsmith) on Feb 28, 2016 at 12:38pm PST And...
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I’m pretty lucky. I had the chance to see something cooler today than most people will see all week. Become a lifelong fan, have a lot of big birthdays, eventually, your team might celebrate one of...
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“Lucky we were there! It was a historical event!”
There are two days left to see “Assassins,” a Stephen Sondheim musical, at Telfair Peet. It is powerful show, which goes some good way toward humanizing the people who have attempted, and succeeded, in...
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Capital City Classic
Auburn and Alabama play one game of baseball in the state capital each spring. It is a non-conference thing, meant to allow people that don’t normally see the two teams face off on the diamond. Auburn...
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April Fool’s post
Though it has no joke, this April Fool’s post does have a critical observation. I’m no city planner, electrician, urban designer, drainage specialist, engineer or architect, but I know enough to know...
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What’s not to love about spring?
One of the things I’ve learned in life is this: clichéd sayings are just that for a reason and people can repeat them to you forever, but you have to teach yourself about them. Like the one about...
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Let’s go ride bikes!
Beautiful, gorgeous spring day. We went for a bike ride because today was the sort of day you’d custom order if you could and bottle up if you knew how. We didn’t train or hit maximum heart rates or...
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Sitting stage left
American holly, Ilex opaca, in Auburn, Alabama. That’s outside Telfair Peet, the theatre building. We were there for a show tonight. If you’re in or near Auburn you need to come see this show this...
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Kept it under 25 mph, no speed records broken
When you have the chance to take a lazy trip around town on your bicycle just because, you should take it. You get good views if you stick your head into the wind and look around: I write this down...
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To every meal’s seasoning …
Jeff Price says the Barbecue House is sold and the College Street landmark will be redeveloped. The oldest restaurant in Auburn, Alabama is going away. He just lost his mother a few years ago. His...
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It was slow, but it was going
We went for a ride along the Chattahoochee River on Saturday, a nice 43-mile ride. The river looks like this: And part of the ride looks like this: Of course, as we have noted in this space before, we...
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Returning to the Glomeratas
Since we’re wrapping up the Lee County Historic Marker project, it seems only right to return to the Glomerata collection, too. The Glomerata is the yearbook for my alma mater. And I collect them for...
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A few more historical markers
After this, you can count them on one hand. You can count a lot of things on one hand these days. Anyway, as a refresher, I started some years ago riding my bicycle around the county to take pictures...
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Not a bad Friday
From this afternoon’s 34-mile ride in Columbus, Georgia. That’s Alabama on the left shore, by the way. And that marks 80 miles for the week so far. This guy knows how to pick a motorcycle helmet. At...
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The penultimate Lee County historic markers post
OK, next to last set of marker shots from Lee County, Alabama. This particular project wraps next week, but first there are two markers and a locally-quarried stone marker within a block of each other....
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Let’s ride bikes
A quick selfie before a ride around town … We went out riding with one of her graduate students. I suppose he’s a former grad student now, having graduated and all that. He’s from Florida and he was...
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My last hours in Auburn
That sounds melodramatic, I suppose, but it is what it is. I spent two years trying to get here, then five years living here and then nine years missing it and, returning, six more years here. That’s,...
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Last of Lee County’s markers
When I graduated from high school I had this poster under my ceremonial costume. It said something like “Thanks Mom! On to Auburn.” I’d been working at that for a while. The grades were no problem, but...
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Goodbye, Auburn
You sleep and eat in safety in it, but a house is, really just the place where you put your memories for awhile. This was a pretty good house, then. Except for the part about being on a haunted burial...
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Happy February
Welcome to the pivotal month. It’s starting out cold, it’ll be cold throughout, and it’ll end that way. But the length of it is perfect, reminding us that all of this will end, eventually. (And in just...
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