Friday, 21 October 2011
This one’s for you, B; you were there!
I went. I saw. Sometimes I spoke, but mostly I was quiet. And, well into the evening, I motored back across the state from “afternoon meetings” in Athens.
Nothing much was conquered.
Thursday, 20 October 2011
The weather is definitely autumnal, but our garden-let managed to hold on, producing many yellow pear-tomatoes, so many that they’re rotting on the vine (sad), and this near-perfect green pepper.
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Continuing our southbound trek, we wound our way through and climbed up and down amongst the southern Appalachians. We not only drove into and out of clouds, we also splashed through real rainfall for a few miles. As we crested the last few bumps en route to Georgia’s Gainesville, we could see light beneath the cloud layer, and, indeed, when we drove into the MetroArea, we had no precip to make unloading more complicated.
BTW, yesterday we visited only eight states. Eight!
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
I find it hard to sum a day in which we drove on the soil of nine (or possibly only eight; no, I’m pretty sure it was nine) states. We were moooo-vin!
So, given that the sky made landscape photography difficult, although we did see gorgeous scenery (Hudson Valley, Delaware Water Gap, Shenandoahs), let’s visit the reality of life in the twenty-first century, when global warming and urban/suburban life opens niches for species humans…don’t prefer.
Monday, 17 October 2011
I have rediscovered one benefit of being a coffee-drinker—hanging in a coffee shop (sometimes, shoppe) with a gal-friend.
Nice! (And we managed to avoid the pastries, thank you very much.)
Sunday, 16 October 2011
Of the several wanders that we did today, perhaps the most interesting was our visit to the José Clemente Orozco murals in the reserve room of Dartmouth’s Baker Library. We also visited the town’s library, and enjoyed studying the AT wall/exhibit, too. (Of course, we wondered if IK dropped by when he came through on foot in, I think, August.)
K fueled our morning with Maine wild blueberry pancakes, and delish maple syrup (heating above).
Saturday, 15 October 2011
Sometimes you catch an exceptional visual out of the corner of your eye, when you least expect it. I keep wondering how many I don’t see, when the corner of my eye is not attuned.
Friday, 14 October 2011
When, in your day’s wanderings you encounter a rainbow, and your camera’s at hand, that’s pretty much the picture of the day.
FYI, this is not a metric rainbow….
Thursday, 13 October 2011
I’ve never excavated foundation walls in this density before, and I’ve certainly never seen them color coded as to age.
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
I’m definitely not up on the architectural detail in Catholic houses of worship so I don’t know the “proper” name of this feature, but I did enjoy this bird on the ceiling of the rooflet over the altar in this cathedral. Out front is a statue of the original patron, and the pigeon atop his head loved his perch (coo-coo) and did not take flight for the whole five minutes we spent in front of the façade.
Ah, wandering along links in WikiPee, I discovered that the rooflet is a baldachin, Italian baldacchino. There’s one in St. Peter’s (Rome), and this building was meant to imitate that one, hence this copied detail mimicking the Bernini original there. Enough; I will probably forget this in a few days….