Saturday, 11 February 2012
New app Someone Around Here found (not me); pay money and the ads go away (of course). [In fairness to the app, I obliterated our lat-long, to keep my secret location…secret.]
I’m trying to get my angles right today, after mis-IDing the froog yesterday (thnx, Felix, for straightening me out).
Friday, 10 February 2012
In a new section of Piedmont Park, or a long-time section that’s now opened up, there’s a strange, um, pond, um water-feature, that has an odd orange scum/growth. And yet. The pond let has fee-shees, and, at last observation, three healthy looking leopard frogs.
UPDATE! Thanks, Felix: this is not a leopard frog, as I offhandedly wrote, but an American Bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana). No spots; overall generally green coloration. Apologies. Clearly, I’m not a frooog scientist….
Thursday, 9 February 2012
My sweetie and I walked to Emory…and back (cool but lovely weather for this afternoon outing). During my investigations at the library, I discovered that undergrads who are paying an estimated $56K/yr (full freight) must be willing to put up with incompetence at the information (not Reference!) desk. Well, fifty percent incompetence. The second person I spoke with led me straight to the volume I was looking for (in the Atlas Collection—so forward, an Atlas Collection).
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
The winds have brought down a few (relative) giants in Piedmont Park lately, and this one is being replaced by three young B&B specimens.
B&B is “balled and burlapped”—a nursery term. No laughing.
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Sometimes, this works for life, too—you bob your head a bit to the side (or up or down), and change the angle (or even the focal point), and pufffft, life is better.
Monday, 6 February 2012
…spotted first by the Guru (but my photograph).
Wonder how these would look on an aging Ford Explorer?
Saturday, 4 February 2012
…in the order I discovered them…
Garrison Keillor, in his opening monologue tonight, a brief one I think was a setup for this, suggested that the two leading Republican Presidential candidates…um, could be described as…a Mormon…and…a polygamist.
Then, a few minutes later, I belatedly checked my email and discovered a special me-no-tube video from the Great White North—of a 1500 snowmobile race (1500 minutes? not sure what the units are), made personally for me by the great videographer, KW!
My chuckling had just died down from the first, when I saw the second. Now, if the idea of a snowmobile putt-putt audio doesn’t trip your tickler, I also offer a creative imported Bird of Paradise photo from a Left Coast correspondent….
And none of this has anything to do with the house on the hill that leads this post….
Friday, 3 February 2012
With a cloud layer coming in and a breeze kicking up off and on, I still managed to wear shorts and not get cold when I toured the park.
We focused our Friday Night menu on the vacuum-packaged pot roast from TJs (really delish), with the rest of the dishes assembled by us. Accompanied by broc/cauli combo, a nice tossed salad with radishes, white taters (boiled, steamy-hot). Oh, yum.
Meal leavened by Jon Stewart and John Hodgman, tivoed (essentially, but without Tivo) from…was it yesterday?
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Even after reflection, I’m not sure how to take this. I listened to the commands, and this was a tactical exercise in how to move across the terrain if your group was under fire. I found it just plain creepy. Not the training, but that it was going on in the park.
The Guru and I came up with two theories we leaned toward about this exercise: 1) ROTC group from the HS across the street; or, 2) movie training.
