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Another year, another weekend of boat races in Orange Beach, AL. As you can see by the banner photo and many of the ones in the gallery, the water was pretty bumpy for the races that day. Hurricane Dean was a mere few hundred miles south of us as the races were taking place but that didn’t scare away many. Click here to see the photo highlights.

Every year our company organizes an outing for the employees and friends at Mobile’s Hank Aaron Stadium. On this event the Mobile Baybears were playing the Tennessee Diamond Jaxx. This year we used the new 755 club. It is a lot larger facility than the other suites and even the VIP room behind home plate. As usual the food was great, the company was wonderful and a good time was had by all. Here are a few shots taken during the event. Enjoy!

Taking advantage of great weather, three friends and I took a tour of the USS Alabama battleship and USS Drum at Battleship Park this past weekend. We took all three tours of the battleship as well as climbed and crawled to everywhere possible then toured the USS Drum which has been MASSIVELY restored since it was pulled out of Mobile Bay and put to rest on dry land. The aircraft pavilion is still closed from the damage sustained during hurricane Katrina; most of the aircraft (although some damaged) are in the parking lot outside the pavilion now. Click here to see the pictures taken during this outing.

For the third consecutive year the Harbor Communications chili cooking team was at it again. The American Cancer Society and Mobile Gas put this thing on each year and it’s a great excuse for teams like ours to have a good time as well as Lower Alabamians and LoDa to get together for a great time on a Saturday. I know… a chili cookoff hosted by the municipal GAS department sounds like a accident waiting to happen but it was beautiful day with perfect weather for the occasion. For pictures, click here.

We made our yearly pilgrimage with the kids to Bellingrath Gardens to see the lights. This year wasn’t cold however it was extremely foggy causing entirely too much haze for many of the pictures to be effective. I was also trying a lot of different settings on the camera which didn’t help also. I got a few shots inside the buldings which turned out wonderful. Each photo is HQ JPG at 3008×2000. The image (file) size was greater than the settings for the MySQL database behind the G2 software would allow so these are uploaded to the flat-file G1 gallery. Click here to see the pictures.