2006 favs

Gonna start out with some of my favorite photos from 2006. Enjoy.

David White, a battalion chief with the Spalding County Fire Department, talks on his radio while trying to organize firefighters at a house fire on High Falls Road.

A bicyclist crosses the tracks that run along Broad Street as the sun sets in Griffin.

Ketay White, 13, takes a shot during a game among friends in East Griffin.

Lucille Williams is a two-time cancer survivor. First diagnosed with cervical dysplasia in 1962, she also overcame a bout with the disease in 1982.

Quietly kneeling by his 12-by-eight-foot cross at intersections across the country, John Obadiah Franklin hopes to bring salvation to as many people as possible. “There is evil in this world,” he said. “The red is to remind Satan that the blood of Jesus is against him."

Emily Wallace, 18, reacts as Jason Clark lowers a milk snake on her head Thursday during a snake show at the Flint River Regional Library. Clark, who operates Southeastern Reptile Service, was demonstrating the difference between the non-venomous milk snake and the venomous coral snake, whose color markup is very similar.

Spalding High's Tripp Murray makes a backhanded throw to second, ending the inning during their game against Thomson.

Barry Montgomery is overcome with the spirit as Apostle Samuel McIntosh prays over him during a tent revival service in Griffin.

Getting a glimpse of real-life cowboys at the annual Shady Dale Rodeo are, from left, Justin Batchelor, 3, his 5-year-old brother, Jackson, and 6-year-old Jesse Johnson. Each year, the rodeo draws thousands to the small town between Monticello and Madison.

For the past 65 years, R.L. "Skeeter" Norsworthy has been working at Hollingsworth Repair Shop. The great-grandfather started working at the shop, which makes keys and repairs bicycles, when he was 11 and bought it from his uncle in 1956. “I’ve been here 65 years,” he said. “I don’t know anything else.”