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.
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).
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| J. and me seen from the first floor, as taken by Elyse |
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| Elyse and Anna on the first floor, around the same time that Elyse took the picture above |
Anna and the kids and I went on a three-day vacation to the mountains this week on Wednesday through Friday. Our adventures included a two-night stay in a rental house in Clayton, GA; a visit to downtown Clayton; a visit to Highlands, NC; a stop at Dry Falls in NC; and a visit to the Jane Hurt Yarn Interpretive Center at Tallulah Gorge State Park on our way home
Here are some of the pictures I took:
Today we went to the Renaissance Festival in Fairburn. Jenny and I both took a lot of pictures; here are some of them:
(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.)
Today, Anna, the kids, and I went to Indian Springs State Park in Flovilla, Ga., which includes many beautiful stone buildings built nearly a century ago by the CCC (Creedence Clearw--no, that can't be right--Civilian Conservation Corps), and which was named for the spring water which can be accessed (and which there was a long line of people with empty containers waiting to get) at one point.
These are some of the pictures I took while we were there.
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| This building--an interpretive center or museum of some sort, I think--was closed, but I took this picture through the glass of the door. Looks very castle-like, doesn't it? |
Today, the last day of Anna's Fall Break, we made the sixty-mile trek up to Burt's Pumpkin Farm in Dawsonville to walk around, enjoy the fall mountain air (such as it was), and pick out some pumpkins. Here are a few of the pictures I made while we were there:
After purchasing our pumpkins (and one butternut squash), we drove up to Ellijay for lunch and to walk around for a while. I took some pictures there too, of course, and I may or may not post some of them later.
