ADVENTURE

Great Scene and Lines from the movie, Never Cry Wolf.

 

 

 

 

"Boredom, Tyler. Boredom - that's what's wrong. And how do you beat boredom, Tyler?... Adventure. ADVENTURE, Tyler."

 

"Bored to death. Bored to death, Tyler."  

Hunting in South Alabama

Chris & Lauren's Wedding

 

My Brother and Lauren got married this month down on Amelia Island Planation in Florida!! It was an absolutely beautiful wedding and couldn’t have been more perfect. Allot of family members and friends came down the week prior to spend time together before the wedding. It was a wonderful relaxing week and I will never forget it! I am so happy for the life they are starting together!

 

 

 

Waterbury Watches

 

To my dismay, I must have given my new watch to one of my new homeless friends I made while in Savannah. For when I awoke in my lush hotel room, my watch was nowhere to be had. I can see one of them now, basking in the moonlight in his ragged clothing sporting his newly prized shiny watch, sitting outside his tent underneath the bridge, while he watches the big cargo ships come rolling up the Savannah River. I hope he enjoys it.

This reminds me of one of Mark Twain’s writings on his Waterbury watch and the similarity between men and watches. Its a wonderful essay discussing temperaments and circumstances present in people’s lives, but I will save that discussion for a later day. Waterbury watches weren’t fancy watches, from what I’ve read, but rather simple, and inexpensive quality watches.  If anyone could have afforded an expensive watch during those years, I feel sure it would have been Mark Twain (his good years that is). But for some reason they did not appeal to him, he was known for his rather cheap watches along with his cheap cigars.

Mark Twain wrote in his essay, The Turning Point of My Life, “Circumstances do the planning for us all, no doubt, by help of our temperaments. I see no great difference between a man and a watch, except that the man is conscious and the watch isn’t, and the man tries to plan things and the watch doesn’t. The watch doesn’t wind itself and doesn’t regulate itself --- these things are done exteriorly. Outside influences, outside circumstances, wind the man and regulate him. Left to himself, he wouldn’t get regulated at all, and the sort of time he would keep would not be valuable. Some rare men are wonderful watches, with gold case, compensation balance, and all those things and some men are only simple and sweet and humble Waterburys. I am a Waterbury. A Waterbury of that kind, some say.”

 

Experience

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”

C.S. Lewis

Days Like This

Savannah

I had wonderful trip to Savannah! This city has definitely found a place on my list of favorite cities. I love its rich history, architecture, historic buildings, and its industrious Port of Savannah gives such a vibrant feel of triumph. The way the enormous cargo ships move swiftly down the Savannah River in the middle of the night as if they were a captain of a speed boat is truly magnificent.

I spent five hours roaming the streets one day, but my pictures on my camera were accidently deleted. The pictures below are some I snapped with my camera.

River Street

Port of Savannah

River Street

Port of Savannah

River Street

River Street

Picture below is with some new friends I made one night in Savannah. We had a blast hanging out together till late in the evening sitting on River Street watching the big cargo ships roll in. I would tell you they are homeless and live under a bridge, but that is not important. It was a night I will never forget. They needed me this evening as much as I needed them.

Geno, Drew, Vance & Me

I do love, love, love you.

samuel clemens

My First Nephew, Cooper Bryant!!!

White Tail Deer Hunting South Alabama

8 Point I killed the past last weekend of hunting season in Alabama.