A BRIEF VISIT TO ATLANTA--

We left for Atlanta one recent Saturday at 12:15 a.m.; just a 630 mile jaunt or thereabouts.

No big deal. The wedding we were headed for wasn’t scheduled to start until 4:30 that afternoon.

Turns out we got there in plenty of time to meet up with family for lunch, check in for our overnight stay and spiff up a bit before heading to the church—the ageless Presbyterian variety, just a chip shot north of downtown.

I was there on the groom’s side of the family; the groom being a newly minted MD, James Crownover, the son of my late wife’s brother Dennis and Becky Crownover.

I have vivid memories from just a few years back when James and I were catching critters down in the creek. Mercy.

He married another newly minted MD, Jennifer Lanzer, a classy lady with whom he will be sharing doctor residencies in Pittsburg by mid-June—each in their own specialties, of course.

The top photo shows the elegant reception room at the Ansley Golf and Country Club immediately preceding a dinner buffet and lively evening of dancing to the quartet shown as they provided dinner music in the background.

In the next lower photo guests shower the groom and his partially hidden bride with red rose petals as they leave the reception. Cousin Brad Crownover (far right in the blue shirt), when he later saw this image, bemoaned his amply protruding waistline, whereupon Carol’s half brother Kevin Maxwell quipped, “Well, it’s certainly easier to see now.”

In the bottom photo, that’s Brad far right with grand daughter Brittany Wolf to his left, then Kevin, Brad’s delightful wife Karen, grandson Eli, my daughter TJ and her partner Wende Carter-Wolf; the latter part of the clan from Jacksonville.

We were enjoying a Sunday morning recovery/reunion/breakfast before departing Atlanta.

Eleven hours and another 630 miles later we were back in Ohio...

...where Kevin was still smiling about delivering his wedding gift—a snow shovel—requested by the groom’s deep south family as a joking reminder of the Pittsburg weather soon to be part of the newlywed’s, until now, lifetime of sub-tropical weather experience.