Kudzu Antiques

Today, Anna and Fox went to Kudzu Antiques in Decatur to look around for a while and get out of the house.

Here are some of the pictures Fox sent me while they were on their trip:

Elyse's Second Concert... In Chicago!

This weekend (they flew up yesterday and flew back today) Anna and Elyse went to Chicago to go to the Moonbyul concert!

Elyse is a devotee of K-pop music. When Moonbyul's current concert itinerary did not include Atlanta and Anna offered to take Elyse to a nearby concert location so she could see the show, Elyse jumped at the chance! Here are some of the pictures they texted to me from Chicago:

The concert stage!

The concert venue

The church right beside the concert venue

Sunday morning breakfast at Stan's Donuts

The Snellville Fall Festival

This afternoon, my first-born child and I went to the Snellville Fall Festival, just a few miles away from where we live in Grayson. Here are a few of the many pictures I took there.

After we walked around for a few minutes, I bought FB a cherry Italian ice.

I finished the Italian ice (Fox was done with it), and then we went to Walmart.

Stone Mountain Park's Historic Square and the Pumpkin Festival

 Today, FB and I went to Stone Mountain Park to visit the "old houses" (the area now called the Historic Square) and go to the Crossroads area (which is currently having its Pumpkin Festival). Here are some of the pictures I took while we were there:

The cats of the Historic Square were a little skittish because of the noises of construction and maintenance; this one, who was hanging out in the General Store which is the entrance to the Historic Square, was minimally skittish and appreciated our attention.

The Cats

 Earlier today I came upstairs to this:

Burt's Farm, 2024

Today made our annual trek up to Burt's Farm in Dawsonville to look at pumpkins and feel like it was fall (which it was). The place was, as I expected, very busy (this being a weekend and Gwinnett County schools being out on Fall break); nonetheless, Anna and Elyse both made purchases and hauled them back to the car.

Elyse's First Concert

Tonight Anna took Elyse to her first concert! (ARTMS, one of Elyse's favorite K-Pop groups, at the Tabernacle.)

Ponce City Market

This afternoon I spent a little time in Ponce City Market, which I'd only visited once before. It's a pretty good place to walk around for a few minutes and take some pictures. Here are a few of mine.

Fairytale Cottage

This past weekend we stayed at a Fairy Tale Cottage in Chickamauga, Georgia. It was a pretty cool place, all decked out, as perhaps you can imagine, in fairy tale stuff -- miscellaneous decorations, books, figures, furniture, etc. Here are some of the pictures I took of the cottage.

(These four Anton Pieck prints were on the wall in the kitchen)

Squirrel

This afternoon a squirrel was both relaxing on our bird feeders while trying to figure out how to thwart the "squirrel-proof" feeder. I'm pretty sure he got it figured out, though the pole was slippery and he didn't get too many sunflower seeds. Still, he proved that our feeder isn't actually squirrel-proof at all. 

I suspect that the phrase "squirrel-proof" is less a statement of invulnerability than it is a challenge to squirrels, a challenge which they inevitably take and win.

Freeman's Mill Park

Yesterday, in a move that had nothing to do with our anniversary, Anna and I, and also Gabriel, went to Freeman's Mill Park in Lawrenceville. Here are some of the pictures Gabriel took (and then teted to me) on our visit:

(All photos by Gabriel Burdett)

Twenty-Three Years!

Today is our anniversary; Anna and I have been married for twenty-three years!

McDaniel Farm Park

Today Gabriel and I went to McDonald's Farm Park to walk around and take pictures, and we saw, among other things, some deer (two adults, or at least older deer, and two babies, or at least much younger deer) out in the pasture. They looked like they were playing, but were probably just eating. (I took these pictures with a 250 mm lens; we kept a respectful distance away -- not that we had much choice, what with the fence between us and all.)