There was much eating of cake and playing with presents.

Thirty-Nine Questions for Charlie Daniels Upon Hearing "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" for the First Time in 25 Years
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Here is one of the large red flowers with three visiting bees.

For the first time, we’re growing a patch of flowers. These are about 20 varieties of heirloom sunflowers.

Is this thing on?

“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. (Applause.)” -- President George W. Bush, 5/24/2005

The view from over the northern Georgia-Alabama line.

All the sweet, green icing flowing down Someone left the cake out in the rain I don’t think that I can take it ‘Cause it took so long to bake it And I’ll never have that recipe again Oh, no! Oh, no No, no Oh no!!

She took to chop sticks real well.

We capped off a day full of new transportation (including planes, trains, and busses) with a boat ride under the Golden Gate bridge and around Alcatraz.