The High Museum on My Birthday

Today, on my birthday--I won't say which one, because I'm still coming to grips with my age; it's a tad higher than I'm comfortable with right now--I went to the High Museum. My main reason for going was to see the William Christenberry exhibit before it ends on Sunday, but I love looking at all the art. Here are some of the pictures I took:

First, after gaining entry to the museum:

The Christenberry exhibit, and some others as well:

"The thesis of Walks to the Paradise Garden is that we rootless Americans are epiphytic.

We make up beauty out of the air, and out of nowhere." 

A few pictures of Atlanta I took through the windows:

(There were several school groups there, as you can tell from these buses.)

Some pictures in the Stent Family Wing, which when I used to come to the High in the '80s and '90s was (if I remember correctly) the whole of the museum:

A really cool 1930 (or so; I should have paid more attention to the sign) Kodak art deco folding camera, with jewel box:

American masterworks and some people appreciating them:

An Idle Moment by Daniel Ridgway Knight (ca. 1890 - 1895):

The last picture I took before I went to the car so I would be home when Elyse got back from school:

A One-Day Road Trip up U.S. 441

Today, the next-to-the-last day of Spring Break, I went on a solo one-day road trip up U.S. 441 (probably my favorite route to drive, at least that I've discovered so far).

I always stop at the Tallulah Point Overlook in Tallulah Falls, Georgia; it represents the point at which the drive first starts to get really fun:

I texted this picture to Anna:

I stopped for gas beside this hotel in Franklin, NC. I notice it (the hotel, not the gas station) every time I drive by it; it makes me think of what many of my books call "vernacular roadside architecture" during "the Golden Age of Road Trips":

(Although all you can see in this picture is the cool Carolina Motel sign and some of the stuff on the motel lawn...trust me, it's a very road-trip-looking motel.)

By noon I was in Dillsboro, NC, and had lunch at the Haywood Smokehouse:

I texted this picture of myself at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center (at the southern entry to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park) to Anna around 3:00.

After this, I turned around and headed south, and was back home in Grayson by 7:15.

A One-Day Road Trip to the Tellus Science Museum with Granny and Pa

This is the first day of Spring Break for ALL of us! (For the first time since I've been teaching there, Gwinnett Tech scheduled its Spring Break to coincide with Gwinnett County's.)

So, to begin our week of not-going-to-school, this morning Granny and Pa (or Mom and Dad, as I call them) took us all to the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville. Here are a number of pictures from our trip, including the drive up, our stop at CiCi's Pizza for lunch, and many of the things we saw at the museum:

(Elyse was very happy to be going, she just wasn't happy to have her picture taken)

(a Foucault Pendulum)

(Jessica has been taking pictures with the Canon lately, which she really loves.)

(a Waverley Electric Road Wagon, a century-earlier version of Anna's Leaf)

Thursday Morning Walk at McDaniel Park

Thursday Morning Walk at Ronald Reagan Park

STEM Night at Cooper

Tonight Anna and Elyse went to STEM Night at Elyse's school, Cooper Elementary. Here are some of the pictures Anna texted me:

(That's not Elyse touching the bearded dragon--she told me she wouldn't go near it.) 

The Book Mobile was there!

(There's nothing that great about this picture, I just have a fondness for bookmobiles.)

Post 600: Putt-Putt with Elyse

Blogger tells me that this is the 600th post on our blog!

This afternoon Elyse went with Jessica and Mommy to play tennis at our neighborhood tennis court; Elyse didn't have a very good time and didn't feel like she did very well at tennis, so she wanted me to take her to do something she thought she'd be better at: miniature golf at Stone Mountain.

So I did.

Unfortunately, we got there just a few minutes before they closed (at 5:00 on a Saturday? Yes, I guess since it's still technically winter and they aren't really that busy) so we didn't get to play as long as we would have liked, but it was still fun and I'm glad we went. We didn't keep score, and I only played the first couple of holes, and we skipped around a bit and only did about ten holes:

There's no golf going on here, I just like taking pictures of this part of Crossroads:

(It wasn't as empty as this picture would lead you to believe.)

Snow Mountain is currently being taken down, so the lawn in front of Memorial Hall is both unusable and unpassable:

Before we left I took this portrait of Elyse:

On the way home we stopped for supper at Elyse's favorite restaurant, Moe's, where we ate lots of chips and queso (though I didn't take any pictures of that).