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Montgomery Country

Last weekend my Dad and I met in Rome, Georgia to spend the day with my cousins, Monty and Pat Montgomery. Dad had been up in Atlanta for a PCA committee meeting and Rome is a good meeting place in the middle. Monty and Pat took us to a little restaurant over the border in Alabama called Fibbers that has some of the best fried catfish I've ever had. They also have one of the largest all-you-can-eat buffets I've ever seen. There's a scale at the entrance to the restaurant noting that certain customers can "pay-by-the-pound," and they weren't kidding.

After lunch we returned to Buck's Mountain where Monty and Pat live and spent a lazy afternoon watching the various wildlife that inhabit their property. Afterwards Dad and drove around the area for a while taking pictures - hence the self-portrait. As I've mentioned before, Rome, Georgia is Montgomery country and there's still a good bit of land there considered the Montgomery homestead. On top of that, it's always a bit sobering to wander the cemetaries there and find them full of Montgomery headstones. But something about that place is always very refreshing for me. Even though I've never lived there, in a strange way it feels like home.

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