January 4th

I wasn't expecting every day to have some amazing shot of something really cool that I did. Lets face it, I may be cool, but I don't do something THAT cool every day, like run through water with my horse or watch a live band at Midnight on the turn of the year. I actually thought, when I had this idea, that each day would have a very simple picture, just something small from the day that really made me smile. So, here is that first picture. A glass of Sweet Tea, something so simple and so very southern. Sweet Tea, for me, is a reminder of my child hood and also my favorite place that I ever lived in my numerous times of moving: Florida. I didn't live in Florida when I was very young at all. In fact, it reminds me of my childhood only because Sweet Tea is something that my mom has always loved, and we would search for it every time we were in a store. Lipton made bottles of it which we would find only sporadically, and mom would buy a whole bunch of the bottles to keep in the house. Otherwise, she'd have to make it. But, when we moved to Florida in 2005, we were so happy to find that Sweet Tea practically gets served in restaurants like water up north! Everyone drinks Sweet Tea, and every place has it in great abundance. It is definitely the drink of the south. So, I do love Sweet Tea, and as I was sitting in my kitchen with this glass of Sweet Tea during lunch time, I couldn't help but smile. I immediately snapped a shot before I finished, since it was gone practically one minute after I poured it.