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2009 December Mountain Road

This 1958 Disney cartoon envisioned all kinds of fun things about the magic highways of the future. The weirdly graphic smear on the road, however, is deriving no more enjoyment from any of them. Thanks, Disney!

They like to burn trash in the mountains. We drove around some Chattanooga countryside yesterday and saw numerous “back yard” fires, probably leaves, branches and brush. I read there’s a burning ban from May to September and I guess after that one could torch their house if they were so inclined. But not during [...]

I’m ever the fan of car window views and their reflections. This is Mr. Bill’s Restaurant up somewhere around a place called Soddy Daisy in Tennessee.

Beautiful clouds preceded cooler air by the space of a quick meal. Someone with a view from a skyscraper would have gotten wonderful shots. Down on the street, I tried, but came up empty.

We went to the Gold Exhibit at Fernbank today, organized by the American Museum of Natural History.
Indeed, there were some lovely things on display, the most impressive being perhaps examples of natural formations of gold and quartz. If you are anxious to see old ingots lost in shipwrecks, purchase pirate hats and pan for gold [...]