The last Friday night out with the marching band. It poured just before we boarded the buses, but they played in just a heavy mist.

Fall has been eclectic here. Not a lot of color, but a lot of relentless rain that has made the little color we’ve had muted.

Late in the day, as the skies opened up again, I did a visit with some high school kids. The state of their school, which is being remodeled, is just sad. How did we let our educational institutions get to this point?

Someone’s not having a good day.

We brought Roger May, creator of the Looking at Appalachia project, to town for a few days. Seemed like the time for an impromptu field trip to the Georgia Museum of Art to look at the Raymond Smith exhibition. Well worth your time to study these images, there’s a lot that resonates in them.

No idea where this button is.

New shopping carts at the new Ollie’s.

Just a few pops of color left. Down here on the Piedmont, some falls just peter out. Makes me miss Central New York falls.