skillfully reckless recklessly skillful, driving … one handed, down low
Imagine if you will a thrill ride at Cedar Point or Six Flags.
On this ride, 100 people are sitting in a car with 25 rows of 4 seats with the latest in roller coaster padding and harnessing to hold the riders in place.
In front of each seat is a box with four large buttons. From left to right, the buttons are red, blue, green and yellow.
The ride starts and as the cars zip along they pass different colored lights.
As each rider passes the colored light, they must reach forward and press the matching colored button.
If any rider misses a light or presses the wrong button, the car jumps off the track and crashes and 10% to 25% of the riders are killed and the rest badly injured.
Would you get on this ride of your own free will and put you life in the hands of the other 99 people in your car?
The name of the ride is I85 and I get on twice a day.
Consider the lilies God so clothed grass of the fields, shall he not clothe you?
Wild Daffodils or Daffodils gone wild.near our home in North Georgia
Adapted from Matthew 6: 28-34 –
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
or the NIV
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
I read the NIV daily but some verses for this old guy just sound better or maybe at least, more familiar in the King James.
It is a reoccurring theme with me but in all the conversations we had about moving and living in the south, no one, NO ONE ever mentioned the beauty and the riot of colors of spring time here.
signs on way to work …. mine? “exit to Peachtree St” yep, in Atlanta
When Scarlet lived with Aunt Pittypat, they lived on Peachtree Street.
The Peachtree name is common throughout the Atlanta area.
In fact, it is often said that half of the streets in Atlanta are named Peachtree, and the other half have five names to make up for it. This is not a joke, but true. You can been at an intersection and all four roads have different names
There are 71 streets in Atlanta with a variant of “Peachtree” in their name. Some of these include:
Peachtree Creek Road
Peachtree Lane
Peachtree Avenue
Peachtree Circle
Peachtree Drive
Peachtree Plaza
Peachtree Way
Peachtree Memorial Drive
New Peachtree Road
Peachtree Walk
Peachtree Park Drive
Peachtree Parkway
Peachtree Valley Road
Peachtree Battle Avenue (commemorating the Battle of Peachtree Creek)
Peachtree Dunwoody Road (running between Peachtree Street and Dunwoody, Georgia)
Old Peachtree Road (traces part of the route of the original Peachtree Trail for which the road is named)
Another odd little piece of trivia, Gone With the Wind was shot almost entirely on the same back lot where the Andy Griffith show was shot. The house next to Andy Taylor’s house is Aunt Pittypat’s. This house was also used for the exteriors of the famous ‘Haunted House’ (Barney Fife: With an axe. Gomer Pyle: An axe? Shazam… ). Not much of the exterior of the house actually appears in Gone With the Wind and I had to search to find a view.
Fleeing Atlanta, standing on the steps of the ‘Haunted House’
This view, looking down the street as Rhett and Scarlet drive away with Melly in the wagon is looking down the same street that Atticus Finch walks down in To Kill a Mockingbird – His front porch is also Andy Taylor’s front porch … which kind of works, doesn’t it?
Finally, I work in downtown Atlanta. Actually, I work in Midtown it’s called. Between Downtown and Buckhead.
At work I listen to ClassicFM, an online radio station from London. Occassionaly they will play movie music and once when they played the TARA THEME from GWTW, I emailed them that due to the magic of the WWW, I was in an office, a mile from Margaret Mitchell’s apartment listening to the Gone With the Wind music from London and I got a response. Not sure if it was read on the radio.
Tom Moreland Interchange, colloquially known as Spaghetti Junction, is the intersection of Interstate 85 and Interstate 285, along with several access roads, in northern DeKalb County, Georgia, just northeast of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is named for Tom Moreland, a former commissioner of the Georgia Department of Transportation from 1975 to 1987.
I-85 is a major traffic corridor from the northeastern suburbs of Atlanta in the Gwinnett County area into downtown Atlanta. I-285 is a beltway around Atlanta. In the northern I-285 corridor, in the area from I-85 counterclockwise to I-75, there has been a large amount of development of office space. Spaghetti Junction was designed to remove choke points and reduce congestion in the I-85 and I-285 interchange, which had been a cloverleaf. from Wikipedia
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