DAY 37 - BEVERLY'S DAY SPA

This is the home of Beverly's Day Spa in downtown Woodstock. They have transformed the turn of the century Howell House into a styling salon and spa.

DAY 36 - BOOKWORM

I know this is out of focus and that is why I almost deleted it when I first saw it straight out of the camera. I took this photo at work on Saturday of Kristi checking the Children's shelves for books out of place. Weekends are busy for the library. And Saturday, especially, we had a lot of children looking and grabbing books. We try our best to keep the books in order but sometimes they end up in weird places and we have to go book by book and shelf by shelf to restore order. I like the abstractness of this photo......so it's my photo of the day!

DAY 35 - FREE DURT

I'll have to admit this photo was taken a few days ago. It's pouring outside and I didn't get around to taking a photo yesterday. But, I've been saving this one to post. I'm not sure if this is a joke, a marketing ploy or just a BIG mistake. My friends tell me it MUST be a marketing ploy. After all, look at all of the dirt that has been dug around the sign. I think maybe they just want to get on the Jay Leno show. Anyway, it is funny and I just had to post this photo taken on Highway 5 and East Cherokee Drive close to the Publix shopping center. If you ever need free dirt, now you know where to go!

DAY 34 - HILL HOUSE FRONT PORCH

The Hill House is located on Main Street across from the old Woodstock Elementary School. I remember seeing old buggies sitting on the front porch. Now it sits abandoned and overgrown with wisteria. Look closely and you can see the beautiful details of the curved wrap around porch. The Hill family consisted of five people, the grandmother Mrs. Lavena Saye Hill, her son William Alonzo Hill, her daughter Miss Ola, another daughter Mrs. Jennie Abercrombie and Mrs. Jennie's daughter, Laura. They were described as the most unique and wealthiest family in town. They kept a flock of laying hens and many bee hives around the house. Mr. Lon (Alonzo) hauled ore from the mines to a railroad in Kennesaw. Miss Ola oversaw the family store and bartered with neighbors. I hope this once beautiful house will be restored one day.

DAY 33 - HIGH COTTON

I didn't get a chance to post a photo yesterday so here is one I took a few days ago. There is a small farmhouse along East Cherokee Drive amid the large subdivisions of brick, stone and stucco. The surroundings are always neat and trimmed. The owners have a small garden to the side of their house where they grow their own vegetables, etc. In the fall you can see cotton blooming and when they harvest the cotton they always leave the row closest to the road unpicked. My grandfather was a cotton farmer. This house and cotton field always remind me of him. Maybe that's why this landowner left one row of cotton unpicked...........to remind us all how it used to be.

DAY 32 - AROUND THE BEND

Train tracks just below Enon Cemetery at Main Street and Woodstock Parkway.