photos from home
Written at: 17:56 03 Dec, 2001
Although I visited home a while ago, I only recently got back some photographs from that trip.
Perhaps the most awaited photo was that of me at the Plano, TX Original Pancake House with "the big German". This is a German-style egg-batter pancake that is puffed up with air when it arrives. It is eaten with butter, powdered sugar, and lemon.
In itself, that is not unusual. It is the size of the pancake (hinted at in the name) that is impressive. It was actually too large for my plate. It took me two days to eat it all. Children trembled in terror at the sight of it.
Most importantly, my local Original Pancake House doesn't serve German-style pancakes that large. We can only get "Dutch babies". So you can imagine the amount of jealousy this photo will generate among my fellow Pancake House pilgrims. And when it comes down to it, isn't jealousy what it's all about?
But that was not the only big German to be found in the metroplex. For I also took this picture of my dad behind the screen door on our back porch.
It's a very "me" photo, in that it eschews recognizable content for pleasing repetition and texture. How artsy. How fartsy.
At least my dad need not worry for someone stalking him from seeing his photo on this page. Because we all know how often that happens otherwise.
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