Favorite Foto Friday!

It's unusual for Mason to smile during a haircut.

It's the day before Derby day. The Kentucky Oakes is today.  It's a big social event (mostly for women) the day before the derby.  Where's my hat???  Oh yeah, I don't have one.  (I don't think a beach hat would be appropriate.)  That's two weekends in a row that a hat would have been appropriate for such an event.  Didn't wear one when I watched the royal wedding either.

The first Saturday in May is fun to think about my old Kentucky home.  I grew up several hours drive from Louisville.  I still have family there and have visited many times. 

We really never "celebrated" Derby day in our house.  My parents didn't attend derby parties.  I did babysit for a few.   I've never had a fascination of any kind for horses or racing, though I've been to the track to see what it's all about.  I've never tasted a mint julep.  

I do enjoy Derby Pie and Mississippi Mud and a Hot Brown (open faced turkey sandwich with gravy) sounds really good.

So tomorrow I'll most likely do what I've always done.  

Turn on the tv to watch the pre-race showing of the horses.  

Get a glimpse of the hats adorning the heads of excited race fans as the camera pans the grandstand.  Then watch the race to see who wins, who falls, who cries.

They will put the roses on the winning horse and take pictures and say "We're off the the Preakness" and give odds for winning the triple crown and such.

Maybe I'll learn to make a mint julep this year.  Maybe I'll make a funny hat to wear.

It's fun to think of home and how "the sun shines bright".   : )  

I pray the sun shines bright enough to dry up the flooding they are experiencing there this week.

.......may the best horse win.