Musings

Earlier this week, a friend suggested I might enjoy Darren Williams’s Angel Rock (2002), so I got online and requested it from the library. (Bonus day: RHB also sent over a couple of novels including a new Robert B. Parker—he’s one of my faves!)

Today we took the NewCam for a walk and picked it up. This was the first foray with the camera when I took photos. Love the camera—even more after I looked at the pictures (on the “big screen”). Light was mediocre, mostly overcast, yet the camera/lens, whew!, delivers!

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I admit it, this photo’s from the other day, but the construction continues on the Grady HS football field and accessories (now the field’s totally torn up, and large rolls of sod are adjacent), and it was only this week that it occurred to me to wonder where the team’s playing football this fall.

Not that I really care, mind you….

Speaking of projects, there’s a pan of fresh-made bourbon balls aging; I think they taste better with the new(ish) dark cocoa. That was lotsa fun, Terry!

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Yes, today is the big two-oh. As RMJ noted this morning (thank you kindly!)….

We celebrated by, among other things, sleeping in, wandering in the ATL Botanical Garden (still with annoying noisy home page, so I provide no gratis link), checking out the sleeping plants and the Henry Moore sculptures.

Oh, and swinging by Showcase and handling the Canon EOS 7D, and, yup, deciding to bring one home! We’re still figuring out how to use it (not surprisingly). Good thing we didn’t have it on our trip, or we would have needed an array of hard drives to store all the huge, luscious images….

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Rain today, but not so much when I was out earlier compared to what we’re getting now—and it’s supposed to escalate overnight. There’s a line of rainfall over in ‘bama that might deliver 1/2 inch all by itself when it gets here.

So, when I was out for my walk I came up with at least three semi-clever blog entries, but, can I remember them now?

I’ll just observe that I need to practice with the self-portrait-mode on the camera…. And that friends to the north and northwest (and far northwest, too?; haven’t checked the weather way out there…) are getting less clement weather than we are….

UPDATE: Now I remember (one idea, anyway). “Nice weather for ducks,” my dad would have summarized today if he had been walking with me in the park instead of watching snowflakes swirl in southern MI. Well, I did see ducks, but I found it quite interesting that they were standing next to the lake, avoiding being in the water (most of them anyway).

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I’m a slow Googler, I guess. It took me a while to find this, a MonoTracer by Peraves, here on the web, after we spotted it when we were out for a walk (overcast, cool, but not windy). And I’m slow to catch on; this techno-beast was one of Time’s best inventions of 2008.

Two wheels = motorcycle.

But with “training wheels” for cornering, I’m sure—and general stability?

Full fairing = more car-like. I see on the Peraves website, this “fairing” is really a monocoque, that is, that the chassis and body are, I guess one and the same.

In action photos on the website, this vehicle looks more interesting than here, but it sure was eye-catching parked right there in Virginia-Highland in front of Murphy’s (I’m betting by its very own driver, and not the valet dudes!).

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Ran across a technical article about Yellowstone geology, especially how the caldera-hotspot has moved across the earth’s surface (from our point of view) over time. Here’s a WikiP image of it, and here’s a bit of a discussion of it….

All this seems a bit trivial, as I also have been thinking about Nancy and her partners, speed-making a movie over this weekend; technical name: challenge film-making…. It seems to me that a big part of the process is figuring how much you can arrange ahead of time—and doing it!, to leave time for the important parts that can’t be put off. Anyway, if her group’s film wins, it goes to Cannes for screening!

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We made our first tentative foray into Xmas shopping as we walked back from the library, this time going through our neighborhood biz district, rather than around it….

This large ceramic sculpture (here in closeup, with gleaming green algae under the flowing water) is orphaned in a roofed-over alley that has several (mostly empty) shops that open into the common area.

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If I said this is a late post because I was chopping ingredients for salsa and the like, I’d only be partly wrong. I’ll admit to a bit of laziness, too!

Our special Friday dinner had a Oaxaca theme, which required a quick run to Buford Highway for epazote—there’s no other way to get the black beans and quesadillas to taste “right.” We also like fresh tortillas de maíz like these, with no fat or factory ingredients….

Ya gotta love the imagery here. The brand is Milagro, which already has major positive overtones. Combine that with the traditional tortilla-making scene, including the brazier, and, geeze, not only will you feel compelled to buy these tortillas, you’ll be weak in the knees as you do!

Epazote, the word, should not be confused with “epizootic,” a favored term of RHB. The former is a plant of the Chenopodium group, and the latter is a disease outbreak.

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Yesterday was rain; today was overcast. Just short of gloomy, though.

Not sure about this sign, but viewing it above the Midtown skyline upgrades its mystery, I think.

Update on the ClickToFlash: read thishere and beware; it’s more complicated than I thought the other day….

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Rainy day, all day. Mostly moderate or light, but not quite always.

Lake Lanier’s been at “full” pool level or above for the last six weeks—hard to believe the drought we had prior to that!

And, our backyard azalea is in bloom (again), to boot!

Weird, odd, and all that!

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