Merry Christmas!

Well, we made it to Pensacola! It took us 16 hours to get here. We drove through Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama to get here. We drove all night, so we didn't see much landscape, but we did see some fun Christmas light displays.

We were in Alabama when the sun came up, and it was a beautiful sunrise. Bright red clouds streaking in layers over a cerulean blue sky-reflecting on the surface of a matte silver lake, framed by silhouettes of trees softened by drapes of spanish moss.

I saw the southern landscape for the first time: red dirt roads, a water wheel by a pond along side of the road, the remnants of cotton fields already gleaned over at the end of the growing season. I made Chris pull over at one cotton field, and I jumped out, took a picture or two and leaped over a little stream to get a closer look. I even "borrowed" a stalk to bring back to Pennsylvania with us!



Oops- family is starting to arrive. I'll write more later!
Patti