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First, let me share a story comics recap and answer your questions like What's Going On In The Phantom? Why is Tony DePaul telling the Phantom Origin Story in detail? November 2024 - February 2025. And then, since again, not much has been happening, here's a double barrel of photographs. Here, from our Monday during that trip back in June, our full day at Dollywood.
The start of Monday, our full day at the park! So here's the usual picture of my car parked.
And then here's the rain. It came suddenly and it looked pretty nasty but fortunately only lasted ... maybe a half-hour or so.
So here's the end of the parking lot. We're not even to the metal detector yet.
Here, finally, we get to a little sanctuary, the metal detector booth, with an overhang where we could not be too wet for a while. There were some kids bouncing around in the puddles because kids don't mind being soaked to their skeletons.
While we were stuck here I noticed the security scanner device. Note how it's helpfully highlighted the baby carriage that the agent could only have seen by looking. Also, I'm unnerved that the device was at 26% power and it was barely past noon.
Finally the storm let up enough that we ran a little closer to the entrance and the bathrooms. Note the Doggywood building, where you could kennel your pet for the day.
Finally we got into the park, with the storm receding, and could try and wring ourselves out a little bit.
Also, we could eat: Dollywood's famous cinnamon bread. It's very good.
The cinnamon bread stand is right next to where that kites ``roadside attraction'', which looked particularly brilliant in the ultraviolet-rich overcast sky.
Here's a little gazebo stage we passed just in time to catch a performing trio, part of the Smoky Mountain Summer Celebration.
You might think the kid in the middle looks like he's eight years old. No; he's twelve, I think. Or was. But yeah, he'd just joined in performing a year or two before and was quite good at it.
We ended up sticking through the whole show, forming part of the nucleus of the audience, although we didn't buy a CD.
Trivia: In the fourth inning of a September 14, 1900, baseball game, Jack Doyle, George Davis, and Make Grady of the New York National League team (which would become the Giants) all stole bases against Chicago during Pink Hawkey's at-bat. There may be earlier instances of a triple steal. Source: A Game of Inches: The Story Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball, Peter Morris.
Currently Reading: To Touch The Face Of God: The Sacred, the Profane, and the American Space Program, 1957 - 1975, Kendrick Oliver.
