tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49041772536622616052024-03-15T21:10:30.510-04:00Planet BurdettLike the Earth, but with rings like Saturn. Because rings are cool.Chris Burdetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654623285089026178noreply@blogger.comBlogger893125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904177253662261605.post-27394384319249284862024-03-02T20:23:00.002-05:002024-03-02T21:01:39.371-05:00The Kids at Michaels <p>Today the kids and I went to lunch at Stevi B's, where Elyse met a friend of hers, and then we went next door to Michaels (a store whose name sounds possessive, but doesn't seem to have an apostrophe in it; in other news, yes, I know that nobody but me cares if I get these details right or not), where Gabriel took this picture:</p>
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<p>After we left Michaels, we went to KPop Nation Duluth, where Elyse looked around for a while and bought some stuff:</p>
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<p>I go on a lot of recreational drives, like into the mountains of north Georgia or up U.S. 441 toward the Great Smokey Mountains National Park (one of my favorite drives in the world) or on various backroads that seem like they might be interesting. The roads on these drives tend to be twisty and turny and I don't always know them that well, plus I'm trying to enjoy the scenery, and I'm on the lookout for any thing or place worth stopping at to visit or to take a picture of.</p>
<p> So I don't drive especially fast.</p>
<p>Oh, most of the time I'm driving the speed limit, sometimes a tiny bit faster – I may go 50 in a 45 MPH zone, but that's usually as fast as I'm willing to go. But that never seems fast enough for most of the cars that end up behind me. When I'm out there driving, trying to enjoy the scenery while also keeping my eyes both on the road and on the car's mirrors, it seems like all the other cars want me to drive faster than I am, and they sure as heck don't like it when I slow down to look at something that I might find interesting enough to take a picture of. I get passed or tailgated by just about everybody. The only scenery the other drivers care about, it seems, is the trees and mountains whizzing by in a blur as they speed off towards…wherever it is exactly those other drivers are going.</p>
<p>And it makes me hate them, every one of them. Stupid tailgating cars! I drive like I have a sense of self preservation. The other drivers seem to think they're immortal. They drive as though when they're around, all laws, including those of driving, the road, and physics, are suspended. My driving is informed by the knowledge, like Mr. Flood's gentle handling of the whisky jug in that Edwin Arlington Robinson poem, that "most things break." And that includes people who drive like idiots, or who drive too fast on twisty, turny roads they aren't familiar with.</p>
<p>It's pretty much the same on the roads I travel regularly, the roads I <i>am</i> familiar with. Even when I'm just heading to work, I still drive like someone who knows you should exercise caution when piloting a ton of metal down the road -- which is to say, I don't drive fast enough for everyone else.</p>
<p>I don't really know what the people in the cars behind me are thinking. Probably I spend a lot more time thinking about them than they spend thinking about me. There's probably nothing personal when they zip by me at 100 miles an hour. I doubt they really think, "Oh no! It's that Chris Burdett guy who always drives so slow," when they see the hind end of my Hyundai Elantra on the road ahead of them.</p>
<p>I doubt they <em>enjoy</em> passing me.</p>
<p>Do they?</p>Chris Burdetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654623285089026178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904177253662261605.post-11573597085938104532024-02-09T19:21:00.022-05:002024-02-20T19:27:32.103-05:00Vines Park<p>Today I went for a walk at Vines Park. Here's a picture of the Whimsical Garden:</p>
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<p>Shortly after I took the picture above, half a dozen Canada geese flew noisily in and landed on the lake:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM2BHHWYYih5JNevX4S-yoEjkTY2eiX9EALHXL58Hz9Kcz3apBK295KJjgC06EZWmYDaJmV3UimgxeaQni_1Ef851GedXMguezrwTjJzoDz9guAFmNHbwZK4ni4j04SLZ9tkzDxxfG/s1600/IMG_20240209_201302_035.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1988" data-original-width="2650" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM2BHHWYYih5JNevX4S-yoEjkTY2eiX9EALHXL58Hz9Kcz3apBK295KJjgC06EZWmYDaJmV3UimgxeaQni_1Ef851GedXMguezrwTjJzoDz9guAFmNHbwZK4ni4j04SLZ9tkzDxxfG/w640-h480/IMG_20240209_201302_035.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Chris Burdetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654623285089026178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904177253662261605.post-25784106779005475802023-12-24T23:00:00.003-05:002024-01-03T17:11:26.109-05:00Christmas Eve <p>Here are four pictures from our Christmas eve dinner at Granny and Pa's house:</p>
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<p>And here is Elyse posing in front of the fireplace (at our house) in the dress she made for Christmas eve:</p>
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Here are some of the pictures I took on our outing:</p>
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<p>And here are a few pictures that Gabriel took:<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSPcB84R14COnK5N1m3CsN7OXJ1P9V3CZSZ2niexpCFhW-RnfJN7dy6-o8Os3_nUbheUpoIZFvHbfkGA-TAku83dcwMxLuJWHXadFO6GD7uRbcRWwi4rD-CCO0fulHe2HaGm4U2B70RS6g/s1600/PSX_20231210_150400.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1296" data-original-width="972" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSPcB84R14COnK5N1m3CsN7OXJ1P9V3CZSZ2niexpCFhW-RnfJN7dy6-o8Os3_nUbheUpoIZFvHbfkGA-TAku83dcwMxLuJWHXadFO6GD7uRbcRWwi4rD-CCO0fulHe2HaGm4U2B70RS6g/w480-h640/PSX_20231210_150400.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUS3OtMSJo3dbfn0YS6Vb1-X0D_KMiQUZCI8c5dbl5-9pV4lO5W4zWzC36Ksn0FEgJ2lZ2GAAUwG9FmRuHUzLZ06uvZXxgY3PELVZGjgux0_57IPmWq01Kk6aGR9_JSy2es63nL3Ah913c/s1600/PSX_20231210_195824.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1525" data-original-width="1144" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUS3OtMSJo3dbfn0YS6Vb1-X0D_KMiQUZCI8c5dbl5-9pV4lO5W4zWzC36Ksn0FEgJ2lZ2GAAUwG9FmRuHUzLZ06uvZXxgY3PELVZGjgux0_57IPmWq01Kk6aGR9_JSy2es63nL3Ah913c/w480-h640/PSX_20231210_195824.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFgQnVQZJye1JGskcTZDAcHB2nCJ6aYzZzytkdbejMnzwNwUxkINySON23H_v5xdj_gTYWG693KFwH59-XnBayi75lvOHGHO16QehYArUrc2UR_ELWcpAf_z3_q0uBLVqArOkECKJ7VE_/s1600/PSX_20231210_150236.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1141" data-original-width="856" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFgQnVQZJye1JGskcTZDAcHB2nCJ6aYzZzytkdbejMnzwNwUxkINySON23H_v5xdj_gTYWG693KFwH59-XnBayi75lvOHGHO16QehYArUrc2UR_ELWcpAf_z3_q0uBLVqArOkECKJ7VE_/w480-h640/PSX_20231210_150236.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_HX34nXbHo5dzZiMtA_1pHV0Qhi0Uy65I5wrmr-20I0tWZ1DDDc_S7NTsFgxSLVnWO4zlb4lle1XkhhNWwPLevpmxu4ByOYHBBTtjIeURZ2ad1R3IWho4SvQybHFKGjccsAvAWjSp2VGK/s1600/PSX_20231211_093418.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_HX34nXbHo5dzZiMtA_1pHV0Qhi0Uy65I5wrmr-20I0tWZ1DDDc_S7NTsFgxSLVnWO4zlb4lle1XkhhNWwPLevpmxu4ByOYHBBTtjIeURZ2ad1R3IWho4SvQybHFKGjccsAvAWjSp2VGK/w480-h640/PSX_20231211_093418.jpg" width="480" /></a></div></div>
Chris Burdetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654623285089026178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904177253662261605.post-72611434937481442102023-11-23T20:15:00.003-05:002023-12-06T20:45:32.682-05:00Thanksgiving Day Portraits of Elyse Here are three portraits of Elyse made today by Gabriel, two in Granny and Pa's backyard and one in Granny's craft room.<div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib2UJVsx-5yuyXtGxxvxQPa99apXMnh5aSk6pLBu1NonLkd0zymY-qiW53lub660RlGg4kX3Tp_xTiV5X1oSqkrNfG2m62iig6aERklpI_FchL0_JkOmEOWDjP1eOUw_sh8iJMOUgkteK6/s1600/1000007925.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" class="imageResizeTarget" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib2UJVsx-5yuyXtGxxvxQPa99apXMnh5aSk6pLBu1NonLkd0zymY-qiW53lub660RlGg4kX3Tp_xTiV5X1oSqkrNfG2m62iig6aERklpI_FchL0_JkOmEOWDjP1eOUw_sh8iJMOUgkteK6/w480-h640/1000007925.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOB8yBxiQj1XVAdyuPZiQhGlw6imlp1go5JCe4ucWpleLM-G8QYpYa-WBy8hcaKKIxuF4tTxckU8SWps226h8AEG3ZeGhe0qeg4OoRNWeMcdBVcFDFchNAKuI_mSE709PistFPfbYhMV2T/s1600/1000007923.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1392" data-original-width="1043" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOB8yBxiQj1XVAdyuPZiQhGlw6imlp1go5JCe4ucWpleLM-G8QYpYa-WBy8hcaKKIxuF4tTxckU8SWps226h8AEG3ZeGhe0qeg4OoRNWeMcdBVcFDFchNAKuI_mSE709PistFPfbYhMV2T/w478-h640/1000007923.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqaPrTRRhARtjsnQkmsCp8h5udovPLfQlKjP_FJZ9YynSR32HGn1bbJRoVTowyhI-z3VNIc6oismTSNzsdlTCGVTz6TWuOwyWfk4r6QrUGhJSpXiNg78Estcesr1Wml-5-ZbVwRx-5c6ey/s1600/1000007924.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1458" data-original-width="1093" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqaPrTRRhARtjsnQkmsCp8h5udovPLfQlKjP_FJZ9YynSR32HGn1bbJRoVTowyhI-z3VNIc6oismTSNzsdlTCGVTz6TWuOwyWfk4r6QrUGhJSpXiNg78Estcesr1Wml-5-ZbVwRx-5c6ey/w478-h640/1000007924.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>Chris Burdetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654623285089026178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904177253662261605.post-38973892106621193562023-11-04T19:03:00.002-04:002023-11-04T19:07:19.836-04:00Feeding the Ducks at Meridian Park<p>Quacking and waddling<br>
hurriedly in our direction,<br>
the ducks seem to intuit<br>
that the containers we cradle<br>
contain cat food meant for them –<br>
though cats they are not.</p>
<p>They don't care what the food is called,<br>
or what animal is depicted<br>
eating it on the bag,<br>
or about the therapeutic value<br>
we find in feeding them.<br>
They gobble down<br>
the food we toss out <br>
and waddle away when it is clear<br>
the containers are empty.</p>
<p>I doubt they think about us<br>
at all when we are not there.<br>
But I – I have pictures<br>
and this poem.</p>
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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2654" data-original-width="3539" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkMR_-BLz44MIhxNN6WKBR4a7AbUw9lnp0u4Q9rNaeQy5TZZxBNkJKbF5f83OgOa9D5L38QJzzwQg9YwgQGYekKL5VP2Y0oVpz7CVYVHTBMdvrKY6FzcciQewH0Y-_ItBeSoOCL0t6/w640-h478/PSX_20231004_194630.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was closed when I drove by it a little after 6:00pm, but looked good enough to prompt me to turn around and stop and take some pictures!</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div>Chris Burdetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654623285089026178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904177253662261605.post-11088262080837830792023-09-23T10:51:00.008-04:002023-09-23T11:04:28.510-04:00The Sun Puddle on the Stairs <div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG0ZkGcgodRxfQWSfUS6rzXK-Ciip1EDNkp6Io0IDv3fMAYmVuLdAkJDXhxqAoO1jZaDRNapJ2IRyws-LOYNh1lBG_GQN40STIokSA4Ic2wt4Moqd9eVIq3aKS2cFl6L052wv8Aium-ITx/s1600/PSX_20230923_104831.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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The park doesn't have its own parking lot, but it's right behind Decatur's Westchester Elementary School, and, when school is not in session, park visitors can park there.</p>
<p>That's just what we did. I intended to take pictures of the park, which I did, but my favorite pictures from the day were taken at the elementary school:</p>
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<p>In something I wrote for Instagram a couple of months ago as a commentary on a Peanuts cartoon, I referred to Grandpa Jones and "The Banjo Am the Instrument." Ever since then I've been listening, nearly but not quite completely exclusively, to a Spotify playlist of songs by Grandpa Jones. Among my favorites are those about dogs.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvux4GKxRHkMvqQfWxFAtxjH4eot8J5IwMeWI-GFdIcm_QYLTbEFqf3HgPSZ5kpQjPattY3m09TlAKtrNaqjV3tFpZSNEM0tCyKDQrtE8vf8cSGY0n9yMRvuoAMbumLS4V2w2dpZQxDe-NQvSqoFaw3YCRk_o0woo-xjn_xXJQxGou5sxKQ1yQ3goImTQX/s572/Grandpa%20Jones%20with%20a%20Dog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="572" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvux4GKxRHkMvqQfWxFAtxjH4eot8J5IwMeWI-GFdIcm_QYLTbEFqf3HgPSZ5kpQjPattY3m09TlAKtrNaqjV3tFpZSNEM0tCyKDQrtE8vf8cSGY0n9yMRvuoAMbumLS4V2w2dpZQxDe-NQvSqoFaw3YCRk_o0woo-xjn_xXJQxGou5sxKQ1yQ3goImTQX/w640-h520/Grandpa%20Jones%20with%20a%20Dog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The dogs in these songs have names like Towser, Rattler, and Old Blue (maybe more of a description than a name, or a name that came from a description; who knows?), they all are dearly loved, and they are all used in hunting (mostly of racoons and opossums). I didn't even know there was a tradition in country music, or folk music, or wherever it came from, of songs celebrating dogs, but there seems to be, and Grandpa Jones carried on the tradition, singing about "good old Towser," and "Old Blue, you rascal you," and the rest.</p>
<p>So, while I myself don't have a dog and am not remotely interested in hunting, I love to hear Grandpa Jones sing about both.</p>Chris Burdetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654623285089026178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904177253662261605.post-34901129062164130942023-08-03T19:08:00.001-04:002023-08-03T19:08:00.135-04:00Our House in Lilburn in Snow, circa 1980<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcOcAR_Ruy1Z8EOuxG4yWzSmhb6Z3v1KpfYbDaQiF8j2ym6FwH1vfYoEI_zJ6jIXsjeV-mLrOtAMysttEcEVew0Hy_lWT-P7ZjtwemdWOJeOHOz03nFL4Fm1eGkMvOZAw2mjzuMLpU3ulqOq5W_6BJb4vTwsipkhlYhGbjjHNlBP4x3vbPkvE5Qic8Ctsk/s1907/Lilburn%20House%20in%20Snow.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1431" data-original-width="1907" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcOcAR_Ruy1Z8EOuxG4yWzSmhb6Z3v1KpfYbDaQiF8j2ym6FwH1vfYoEI_zJ6jIXsjeV-mLrOtAMysttEcEVew0Hy_lWT-P7ZjtwemdWOJeOHOz03nFL4Fm1eGkMvOZAw2mjzuMLpU3ulqOq5W_6BJb4vTwsipkhlYhGbjjHNlBP4x3vbPkvE5Qic8Ctsk/w640-h480/Lilburn%20House%20in%20Snow.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
<p>As I write this, we are in the midst of a heat wave, with temperatures all around the country approaching, in many places exceeding, one-hundred degrees. This picture is a reminder that it hasn't always been hot; sometimes, in fact, despite what Elyse believes, it even snows here in Georgia.</p>
<p>This is our house and front yard in Lilburn covered in snow. I'm not sure exactly when this picture was made, but it looks like probably the late 1970s or the early 1980s; I'm going to call it 1980. The car you can see most clearly in the carport is our 1978 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, and I'm pretty sure the car beside it is our 1977 Toyota Corolla; we had both of those cars, but not yet Dad's company car, the Cadillac, by 1980.</p>
<p>There's a pair of tracks in the picture, very near the bottom of the frame, in what would have been our neighbors' yard. They're very regular tracks, like a car's tire tracks, though I of course have no idea if they were made by a car or not. Our neighbors were the Winterses: Beverly, the divorced (I think) mother of two boys, Jeff and Kevin, who were enough older than me that we never went to the same school, but not so much older that they were already out of school when I started school. I found what I think is the mother's obituary online; if it is her, she also had an older son, Alan, of whom I have no memory; he may have already left the nest (as it were) by the time I became aware of the family next door. In any case, she, Beverly, lived until a little over two years ago. I have no idea when she moved away from Lilburn.</p>
<p>There's also visible in this picture a figure walking by the car. At least, that's what I think it is; it's hard to tell. It might even be me!</p>
Chris Burdetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654623285089026178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904177253662261605.post-2069254987702965602023-07-27T10:52:00.000-04:002023-07-27T10:52:00.675-04:00Mom and Dad and Tommy and Kathy in Tommy and Kathy's Kitchen Having Dinner, 1987<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSKV-89tl7_2aiocKYg36Nzb9CSe3CkdByciKxVklyHVEMUwlmfDTXq2RXOo3_M4JVnjB4tXoKjzJMLTtEEoe5mlVt_pE3SAK6X24FQD2O_l3XW4KR9qs8fdy2gHvtb2ymVqcJemcdgep6/s1600/IMG_0037_forTBT.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1413" data-original-width="1884" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSKV-89tl7_2aiocKYg36Nzb9CSe3CkdByciKxVklyHVEMUwlmfDTXq2RXOo3_M4JVnjB4tXoKjzJMLTtEEoe5mlVt_pE3SAK6X24FQD2O_l3XW4KR9qs8fdy2gHvtb2ymVqcJemcdgep6/w640-h480/IMG_0037_forTBT.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
<p>I wasn't there that night, but I know this kitchen well. I had many a Christmas Eve dinner there in the 1970s and early 1980s, all many years before this picture was taken in the late '80s.</p>
<p>According to the timestamp on the picture, which I have cropped off in the version posted here (as I have cropped off the dog, at which Mom was looking when the shutter was snapped), this photograph was made a couple of days after Dad's birthday that year – 1987, when he turned forty-three. What we see here, then, is, I'm pretty sure, a Birthday Dinner; probably that year Dad's birthday fell on a weeknight or some night when Mom and Dad or Tommy and Kathy had other plans, so they celebrated my dad's birthday shortly after his actual birthday.</p>
<p>I'm not sure who took the picture, but there is in the picture some evidence of that person's presence: five chairs at the table, though only four people sit at it; five glasses of tea on the table; five plates; etc. Someone clearly rose, camera in hand, and recorded the night for posterity, as they recorded a few other scenes from that night, but I don't know who that camera-wielding person was.</p>
<p>Other things I don't know: Where I was, or Jeff, or my cousin Rick, that night. However, I do know this: By then we were all teenagers and surely not interested in having dinner with our parents, and too old to be made to do so.</p>
<p>This photograph was made twenty years before Tommy's passing in his late 50s. The house is no longer in the family, but it's still standing, and I drive by it periodically and marvel at how much it's changed. (That's true, actually, of a great many places.) I would love to see the inside of it, to see how much it's changed; I believe that the company that bought the property uses the house as an office, and I doubt it's changed dramatically, the living room and bedrooms making good offices as they were. I have great memories of going there and seeing Tommy and Kathy and playing with Ric. It is one of the important places of my youth, and I treasure the memory of it. </p>Chris Burdetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654623285089026178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904177253662261605.post-42590591670142789772023-07-15T22:00:00.035-04:002023-07-18T12:08:29.834-04:00Fort Yargo State Park <p>Today we went to Fort Yargo State Park for a few hours. These are some of the pictures I took while we were there.</p>
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<p>I'm not really what you'd call a dog person. </p>
<p>Not that you have to buy into the artificial binary of "dog people" and "cat people." I've known plenty of people who love both, perhaps even have one (or more!) of each as a companion. And some people don't like either; it's weird, they say, to let an animal have free reign in your home and even sleep in your bed. Sometimes I see it that way myself.</p>
<p>But most of the time, I'm a cat person.</p>
<p>Not in the Val Lewton sense, of course, but if I am going to give an animal free reign in my home and let it sleep in the bed with me, I would much prefer it be a cat than a dog. In fact, Anna and the kids and I do have three cats, all of whom do have free reign in our home and sometimes do sleep in the bed with us (until they get kicked out of the bedroom for pouncing on people who are trying to sleep), and zero dogs. Before we had kids, Anna and I had six cats (yes, all at the same time). We've never had any dogs, and don't intend to get any anytime soon.</p>
<p>However, I must say that a dog was a great pet to have for a little boy.</p>
<p>The first picture is me and my first dog, Spike, probably in about 1973 before I'd even started first grade. I didn't have Spike for long – as I remember it, the backyard of our house in Lilburn wasn't fenced in, and he just had that small corner to live in (you can't see it in this picture, but Dad built a little lumber and chicken-wire pen for him), and he got wild and unmanageable as he got older, and eventually Dad took him to the pound.</p>
<p>Pookie, the dog you see in the second picture, came to live with us shortly after that. We had the yard fenced in, and Pookie was my constant companion for the next…well, many years, until I lost interest in dogs and got more interested in guitars and science fiction and the other things that can sometimes pull a boy away from his dog. Nonetheless, as I remember it, Pookie was with us until after I graduated from college, more than sixteen years. I've never had another dog, but I have had lots of cats.</p>
<p>So, though I may now be a committed cat person, I started life as a dog person, which is just how I think it was supposed to be. Pookie was a great dog and, even if I don't want a dog in my life now, I'm glad I got to grow up with him.</p>Chris Burdetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654623285089026178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904177253662261605.post-28475637156261457982023-07-02T18:00:00.020-04:002023-07-03T17:12:31.375-04:00Freeman's Mill Park<p>This afternoon I went on a little drive, just to get out of the house, and on the way home I stopped at Freeman's Mill Park in Lawrenceville, where I took these pictures.</p>
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<p>Happy Anniversary, Sweetie! I love you!</p>Chris Burdetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654623285089026178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904177253662261605.post-31824274940906396602023-06-22T21:00:00.023-04:002023-06-23T09:20:49.807-04:00Five scenes from the High<p>Today we went to the High Museum to be all cultured and stuff. Here are some of the pictures I took (and one that Elyse took).</p>
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<p>Here are some of the pictures I took:</p>
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Chris Burdetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654623285089026178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904177253662261605.post-81992860773903243532023-06-08T10:00:00.002-04:002023-06-08T11:51:21.004-04:00Two views of me in a suit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUo_NGxbp1_WsvyMOFUltVJXRK7R7PwSKIURBtvW4wMBbLowxX2EfRvViLSjBbGFm42JLCqyKbM3P97DkgaNIvHaQOslsFwl8nIUzMKHlfaYyWKBzMQ_oKF6VPIdnQwIvjyE7t4KH08XZi/s1600/scan0051.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="297" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUo_NGxbp1_WsvyMOFUltVJXRK7R7PwSKIURBtvW4wMBbLowxX2EfRvViLSjBbGFm42JLCqyKbM3P97DkgaNIvHaQOslsFwl8nIUzMKHlfaYyWKBzMQ_oKF6VPIdnQwIvjyE7t4KH08XZi/w480-h640/scan0051.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUNcafs7R_fIST8WQ8uKNTq7eL9pAQxFJ0bWt0RyC6QwYGNlKGqj5EyY2lRt0ue9O9h2MIbbBYdooCxCyBmWqrV38pvghp5ZQOltgMNvV_kXTebBnaYw8vczDt5W1Y-cdqJTCPGJ2LlWVq/s1600/Me+in+Suit+Early+90s.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1922" data-original-width="1441" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUNcafs7R_fIST8WQ8uKNTq7eL9pAQxFJ0bWt0RyC6QwYGNlKGqj5EyY2lRt0ue9O9h2MIbbBYdooCxCyBmWqrV38pvghp5ZQOltgMNvV_kXTebBnaYw8vczDt5W1Y-cdqJTCPGJ2LlWVq/w478-h640/Me+in+Suit+Early+90s.jpg" width="478" /></a></div></div>
<p>These pictures weren't made that far apart, really. There's probably nineteen or twenty years between the two – and that's nothing these days. Nineteen or twenty years ago seems like yesterday to me now, but the nineteen- or twenty-year span shown here is much more significant. Going in age from five to twenty-four is a pretty large and significant leap.</p>
<p>I don't know the occasion of the first picture, the one of me at four or five looking very dapper (but a tad nervous), and I don't recognize or remember that suit. I suspect the picture was taken on a Sunday and I wore the suit to church; maybe it was Easter – though that usually called for a more colorful outfit – or maybe it was the day I was baptized. Or maybe the occasion was a wedding I have now forgotten; I'm not sure I ever actually went to a wedding when I was that young, but if I did, I would have worn a suit.</p>
<p>I'm not sure about the occasion of the second picture, either, but I recognize the suit – it was my "interview suit," which I bought especially for job interviews after I graduated from college. I also wore it to…well, anything I went to where a suit was appropriate: holiday parties, weddings (did I go to any back then?), funerals, etc. However, in the full, uncropped version of this picture, you can see that the house is decorated for Christmas, so I suspect I was dressed up for the ExecuTrain holiday party, probably in 1990 or 1991.</p>
<p>Today I don't even own a suit. If I were invited to a wedding I would have to go out and buy something to wear.</p>Chris Burdetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654623285089026178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904177253662261605.post-58926328577774153392023-06-01T22:00:00.001-04:002023-06-02T20:57:35.712-04:00Me and Dad on My Birthday, 1978<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTjK_V0MsugMl6HGuCXKwgtvUDVUXKb1ccDYyZFbitlSIhd69mfswmCOvWu5NF1mT2JesrG4INl4LIy7p-wGjNuDkwUnTb8BU9k_xl8RXvldc5-k2lyUpKNyZv9l8TY85kCcPx4pYE6Pd5/s1600/Chris+and+Dad+Birthday+Cake+1977.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1984" data-original-width="1936" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTjK_V0MsugMl6HGuCXKwgtvUDVUXKb1ccDYyZFbitlSIhd69mfswmCOvWu5NF1mT2JesrG4INl4LIy7p-wGjNuDkwUnTb8BU9k_xl8RXvldc5-k2lyUpKNyZv9l8TY85kCcPx4pYE6Pd5/w624-h640/Chris+and+Dad+Birthday+Cake+1977.jpg" width="624" /></a></div>
<p>I can't say for sure that this was my birthday, or indeed anyone's birthday. Maybe it was just some random day during my childhood when we had cake. With candles. And I got to blow out the candles.</p>
<p>Okay, I'm pretty sure this picture was taken on my birthday.</p>
<p>I'm also pretty sure it was taken in 1978 because of the shirt I'm wearing. I wrote about this in another musing; I got that shirt for Christmas when I was in fifth grade (which would have been in 1977), and my best friend Bobby Py got an identical shirt, and we spent the rest of the school year (until he moved away, anyway, in my memory near the end of the school year) trying to coordinate us wearing the same shirt to school on the same day. I don't think we ever managed it; I think the only day that both of us wore that shirt to school on the same day was sometime in January, when we both realized we had gotten the same shirt for Christmas.</p>
<p>So this picture was probably taken on or around my birthday in April of 1978, just a few months after Christmas of 1977.</p>
<p>Speaking of shirts, which I was just a few words ago, I also remember the shirt that Dad's wearing. I think he wore that shirt often. In fact, though this is probably not accurate, right now as I type this I picture him in that shirt in nearly every photograph we have from the 1970's or '80's. (Several hours later, I just looked through all of my scanned pictures in search of another picture of Dad wearing this shirt, and came up with nothing.)</p>
<p>But enough about shirts; now let's look at the house, and at us. In this picture, we are in the kitchen of our house in Lilburn, where at this point we had lived for five years, sitting at the table (which was round), right in front of the double folding doors that hid our washer and dryer (and I think also the water heater). Right behind us, visible between our heads, are some shirts that had come out of the dryer and been put on hangers and hung up (so as not to wrinkle, I imagine), but not yet put away to whatever closets they belonged in.</p>
<p>Dad is holding a book of matches, and is only 33 years old in this picture – more than 20 years younger than I am now. Mom, who is probably taking this picture, and who probably made the cake and hung up the shirts, but who is not otherwise seen in this picture, was 31 at the time. I don't know where Jeff was; he would have been eight then.</p>Chris Burdetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654623285089026178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904177253662261605.post-43418837565637459612023-05-28T20:14:00.038-04:002023-06-02T20:56:54.575-04:00The Renaissance Festival 2023<p>Today we went to the Renaissance Festival in Fairburn. Jenny and I both took a lot of pictures; here are some of them:</p><p>
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<p>(All the pictures above of me, Elyse, and Anna were taken by Jenny. There aren't any pictures of Jenny because Jenny is most likely to take pictures of US, but, being the photographer, they don't end up in many of those pictures.)</p><p></p><p></p>Chris Burdetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654623285089026178noreply@blogger.com0