Now and Then

At the other end of Bicentennial Park in Nashville is the Tennessee State Capitol. I can only imagine what it looked like when it was finished in 1859, but now it’s surrounded by the Jetsons.

Toby didn’t think it was a Capitol building - ‘Don’t they all have domes? I thought it was a law or something?’

I had to agree that it did seem to be a bit unusual, but Google explained that it was modeled after a Greek Ionic temple and that the Greeks were more about columns than domes. Google tried to continue on about how the capitol was rotating between Knoxville, Nashville, Kingston and Murfreesboro until 1843 but Toby shouted out, ‘OK, Boomer!’ and Google shut up flabbergasted.

I asked him what that was all about and he said that he saw it on DoggyFaceBook as the epitome of a no-comeback, shut-down. I told him that wasn’t a very nice thing to say and as a 12 year old Golden Retriever, he was pretty much in the heart of the Baby Boom generation age range anyways. Then he brightened up and said that in a year or two he’d be part of the Greatest Generation! That shut me up too…

Sony A1, SEL100400GM, 232mm, f/5.6, 1/3200sec, iso100