This is a photo from our "Tacky Christmas" K-Group gathering on Sunday, Nov. 27, at the Turk's house. When I look at this picture, I can't help but smile—not because of Jesse's outfit or Nixon's (which were classic!), but because this group of folks didn't know each other not too long ago. Now, we gather to eat, study, share and pray together in the context of gospel community. I just love it, and am grateful. NOTE: For those of you not pictured, know that you were missed!
I completed my first "ultra" trail marathon (54K/33.5mi.) this past Saturday at Dawson Fores. Actually, it was an "accidental" ultra, since I thought I had registered for a normal trail marathon. Oops. On top of the extra milage, it rained all morning, which made most of the trail really souply/sloppy (check out my shoes in the photo below). Sometimes the mud was 6 or more inches deep (complete foot submersion). I've included a graph of the terrain below as recorded on my Garmin. Brutal. But that's running in north Georgia. Some post-race pics are below the graph. The best part of the day was to see Kristy and Schaeffer at the finish line after 9 hours of running in the mud.
Walked up on this little fella the other day while hiking the creek at Amicalola. Not being too spooked, he let me get pretty close and take a few pics.
