Allie at Abby's writes a poem and takes my order
Sunday, March 25, 2012 at 12:25AM 
Saturday morning, I took Margie to breakfast at Abby's and was surprised to be waited on by a new waitress, just recently hired - Allie.
Allie of Abby's.
Allie is a poet and she is not only strikingly beautiful but quite bright. She is only 16, but has graduated from high school and is enrolling at the Mat-Su branch of the University of Alaska.
She is a writer and poet and plans to continue her studies until she herself is a college professor, teaching students who, for a couple of years, might not be much younger than she will be.
Although I brought my camera with me, I had forgotten to put a memory card in it and so I had to fall back on my iPhone 4s. I was a little worried, because there was a broad spread in dynamic range between the highlights and shadows and I knew that the iPhone could not handle that spread.
Even so, it did pretty good for a phone.
I took more pictures today and I really intended to include them in this post, but I shot them in my regular camera and it is just too late and I am just too tired and jetlagged to download, edit and process them.
So I will save them for later.
And don't forget - there is still plenty left to come from the five-week trip I just completed, both from India and White Mountain Apache, Arizona. It will be at least a couple of days yet before I start again - maybe even a week.
Allie has a poem hanging on the wall at Abby's, decorated by her own art work. I took a picture of it and was going to run it, but then I suddenly realized I would be publishing her poem without her permission, so I held off.
Breakfast, by the way, was truly excellent - way better than the greasy spoon breakfast I had in Phoenix.
Reader Comments (2)
Beautiful! Goo luck Allie....
Breakfast and poetry together! She is a cutie Bill. And smart too. It's nice to read there are girls that excel scholastically in Wasilla and have real beauty too. Brains an beauty and good hash browns! Bet Margie is happy to have you home. Hope the boys come over today and let you play with Thomas the train.