Sometimes, I don’t see moments so much as foregrounds and backgrounds and the contrasts between them, little incongruities.

Three images, morning, noon and evening, all about things finishing – campus project, campus preaching and an on-campus cocktail hour before our Grady Salutes.

Today is convocation day for the college, but before that the National Press Photographers Association Student Chapter held a gallery opening in the building. I’ve been trying to get this organized for years, a display of the work the kids do throughout the year. Was very happy to to have it up and have parents, friends, faculty and staff join us for a bit before heading to the really big show.

At the conclusion of our spring faculty meeting and celebration, we all headed out on to Grady College’s patio to dedicate a paver to our late colleague, Barry Hollander.

He wrote his own obituary, which surprised none of us, and included this line:

I got to work with the very best faculty in the world, got to work with the very best students in the world, got to live and raise a family in the very best town in the world.

After we said a few words, Associate Dean Jeff Springston played a favorite tune of mine, Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms, and then we all went quietly on our way.

Thursday night some of us will be at the university’s Remembrance Ceremony and, on Friday, he will be inducted into the college’s Sanford Circle.

Going to be tough couple of days in the middle of which is our spring convocation.

Afternoon shadows seem to be coming from different light sources.

Someone moved a smoker’s chair to get out of the rain.

Turns out there are a couple of “Buckheads” here in Georgia. Most folks think of the ritzy Atlanta neighborhood but I wandered into Historic Buckhead, a little rail depot town that time has passed by.