Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia: The People of Williamsburg

On our long and wonderful drive up to Connecticut to attend Molly and David's wedding in June, Anna and I stopped at Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia, and spent two days there.

Colonial Williamsburg is "the world’s largest living history museum—the restored 18th-century capital city of Britain’s largest, wealthiest, and most populous outpost of empire in the New World." It is a true spectacle, and you can see a sample of it in the following fifteen photographs of the People of Williamsburg:

A colonial woman

A colonial dramatic arts interpreter

A colonial dramatic arts interpreter

A demonstration of fencing (as used in the dramatic arts)

A demonstration of fencing (as used in the dramatic arts)

The bucket maker

A brick maker

A brick maker

A brick maker

The woodworker

Blacksmiths

Blacksmith

The printer and bookmaker

Jeweler

Jeweler

Driving Up U.S. Highway 1: June 7 - 8, 2003

Driving to Connecticut

Anna and I are driving from our home in Lawrenceville, Georgia, to New Haven, Connecticut, to attend her sister Molly's wedding. As is my wont, I've stopped along the way to take a picture or two, a few of which I've posted here.

"The Big Mo" Monetta Drive-In Theatre

Monetta, South Carolina

Oldsmobile Chevrolet 

Along US 1, South Carolina

Saturday Dinner

Columbia, South Carolina

Hotel Tableau I

Colony Inn, Camden, South Carolina

Hotel Tableau II

Colony Inn, Camden, South Carolina

Hotel Tableau III

Colony Inn, Camden, South Carolina

Hotel Tableau IV

Colony Inn, Camden, South Carolina

Dizzy Gillespie Birthplace

Dizzy Gillespie Park, Cheraw, South Carolina

Duvall Building 

Cheraw, South Carolina

Blue Building with Red Door

Cheraw, South Carolina

Alley Door

Cheraw, South Carolina

Camel Special Offer (No Parking in Alley)

Cheraw, South Carolina

Thrift Store Window

Cheraw, South Carolina

Lunch Sunday 

Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh Rd. Outdoor Theater (currently showing: X Men 2)

North of Raleigh, North Carolina

Wheat Fields, Telephone Pole, Clouds

Norlina, North Carolina

The Baby Titmouse Fledges!

Here are some pictures of the baby Titmouse on what is I believe its first day out of the nest:

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I posted these pictures to the old version of Planet Burdett back in 2003, and added it to the family blog version of the site on November 17, 2017. When Anna and I lived in Lawrenceville, back then in 2003, I used to take a lot of pictures of the birds in our backyard.

A Few Pictures

Chris and Annie in the basement studio:

Chris--A Self-Portrait:

Chris--Self-Portrait 2:

Chris--Self-Portrait 3:

Anna at a lake in Alabama:

Anna with laptop and headphones, attending her on-line class:

Tesseract:

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I originally posted this on the old Planet Burdett Web site, and added it to the family blog version on November 13, 2017--close to fifteen years later. Tesseract is still with us, and still looks basically the same!

A Drive Down U.S. Highway 441: A Photo Journal

Driving the Old Road

This weekend, my wife Anna went to Akron, Ohio, to visit her sister Theresa for Theresa's twenty-third birthday. I took the opportunity to go on a road trip down U.S. Highway 441 from Madison, GA, to just north of the Florda line. I took over a hundred pictures along the way (actually, a lot more than that, but I deleted the less-than-impressive half of them); here are twenty of my favorites.

U.S. Highway 441, Eatonton, GA

"For Sale -- Land Zoned C-2", South of Madison, GA

Stairs going up the observation tower at Rock Eagle, Rock Eagle, GA

Self-portrait, looking out of the observation tower at Rock Eagle, Rock Eagle, GA

Henderson Grove Baptist Church sign, North of Eatonton, GA

"Hot Boild P-Nuts", North of Eatonton, GA

Door not recently opened, Eatonton, GA

"Happy China Chinese Restaurant" (where I had lunch!), Eatonton, GA

Miniature table and chair, Eatonton, GA

Bar-covered window, Eatonton, GA

Close-up of a hand-woven basket in the Uncle Remus Museum in Eatonton, birthplace of Joel Chandler Harris, Eatonton, GA

Self-portrait with car, Milledgeville, GA

Campus Theater, Milledgeville, GA

A tree grows in Milledgeville -- here's the shadow to prove it!, Milledgeville, GA

A lonely cabin on a big pasture, South of McRae, GA

Old house and tree, South of McRae, GA

"Crappie poles on sale now", Douglas, GA

"Danger Current On", Power switch on abandoned Meadow Gold Ice Cream building, Douglas, GA

Two windows in the Meadow Gold building. Douglas, GA

A beautiful ending to the day, North of Dublin, GA

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(I originally published this travelogue on my AOL Web site on the dates shown above, and transferred it to our family blog in late October of 2017.)