Our niece Haleigh- she needed some photos for her portfolio and graciously let me ’shoot’ her. She’s a pretty girl, and even sweeter than she is pretty.

Here’s my first day’s entry in the Photo a Day challenge.  I shot this one with my Canon Elph.

I always love having a camera or my cell phone with me- most kids love to look at pictures of themselves, or other kids. My cell phone (a Palm Centro) is loaded with lots of  pictures of kids and animals, and a video of some dogs my husband shot. No matter how shy, I can usually get a child to at least stand near me when I offer to show them pix!

Yesterday we had Rutledge’s first 4th of July parade. While we only had a few people to come, everyone there had a great time, and we hope to make this an annual event.

We started out with the pledge of allegiance, then everyone lined up behind Mayor Joe Dexter. Randy took his bike to the end of the parade route, and kept traffic from coming into the group, and Jennifer blocked the entrance to the other end of the street.

After we got back to the community center, we spread out blankets under a tree, and while Jennifer poured pink lemonade for everyone, I cut this beautiful cake made for us by the ladies at the Piggly Wiggly.

As I said, we hope to make this an annual event- a very small town in a neighboring county has turned their small-town parade into a large event, usually having at least 200 participants; we may not ever get that big, but I would like to eventually get other towns in the county to participate in some way, and I’d also like to see more of our citizens to come out for it too.

Next year’s route will be a lot longer, Mr. Joe’s dad has said he’d bring his 1947 tractor and wagon along to haul kids, and we’d love to get at least one fire truck in as well.  We may also change the time to later in the afternoon, and cook out hot dogs for everyone too.

Happy Independence Day!

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