Miss Mississippi 2009 Thursday

Mississippi to Crown New Royalty this Saturday

Okay, we, Susan O'bryan and I, made it through the first night of preliminaries last night. Only 3 more nights of the EXACT same program to go. The entertainment numbers were snappy and toe tappy, lighting and "costuming" was bright and colorful.

Christine Kozlowski, Miss Mississippi 2008 entertains

Taryn Foshee and Michael Young are doing a wonderful job of emeecing (no surprise there). Please tune into WLBT on Saturday night at eight o'clock to see the top ten then the top five picked then finally our new Miss Mississippi crowned. Rumors and whispers are already flying around Vicksburg as to who the next winner is but only time will tell. I do have my top five picks but I'm going to keep those to myself for now (hermetically sealed since noon today and placed in a mayonnaise jar on my front porch).

If Anything Can Go Wrong It Will!

Sometime yesterday afternoon while photographing interviews with Michael (that's him in the photo above just a few minutes before diaster struck) and Taryn my camera went on the fritz and decided that it no longer wanted to focus automatically which made the rest of the day a "stomach churner" to say the least. Got to the hotel room around 11:00 P.M. After posting my manually focused (sorry if some are a bit blurry) pictures to the Clarion Ledger I climbing into bed at 2:30 A.M. only to pull myself up again at 6:30, also A.M., and make a hurried drive to Clinton for a new camera. I made it back in time to take pictures at the autograph party for groups A and C, eat a quick lunch, edit, upload those images and write this blog. I want to take a nap but I don't think time will allow before tonight's preliminary. YAWN!

Sidenote: next time you're in Vicksburg you have to go to The Tomato Place on Highway 61 and get the best and freshest fruit smoothie you've ever tasted. So far Susan and I have tried Rainbow (variety of fruits including kiwi and other fruits), Yellow Watermelon and Grape, All Natural Peach and Regular Watermelon. Between now and Sunday afternoon we may have tasted a little bit more than half of the flavors offered and will be looking forward to next year to try the rest (if we haven't cheated and snuck down before then).

That's all for right now but stay posted for more pageant/Vicksburg updates. Also check out my website www.JohanssonStudio.com in the next couple of weeks for all the pageant images.