Thursday, 21 March 2013
Pole-forest is here: 33.76718,-84.36434.
Just off the BeltLine is a huge Georgia Power operations area…that includes a pole-skill training area.
Centered under the cherry-picker basket in the background is the Sears, Roebuck building we toured on Tuesday—the south facade.
Out of the frame to the left is a playground. “Behind” the truck is the drainage lake.
Whatta neighborhood! Diversity!
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Sometimes when I return from my wanders the Guru asks what wildlife (he means critters in general, I think) I spotted. Today I saw two horses (with police-riders), the Canada goose family by the drainage lake (now down to one gosling*), Piper the cat, several dogs with their walkers, wild birds…. And yet it was a pretty quiet day.
* Hypothesis: second gosling was a casualty of carnivore hunting, perhaps by cat, rat, stevedore, dog, or raptor; however, no feather-spot detected in cursory perusal.
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
The Fates intervened in our neighbors’ lives, and they offered us the opportunity to tour, in their stead, Ponce City Market, the former City Hall East, the former Sears, Roebuck, and I don’t know what else. The building is something like 2 million square feet, with 56K panes of glass. This is an interior wall, I think dating to the 1920s, the original building phase. Interestingly, this building, adjacent to the railroad bed that’s now the BeltLine, which hosted a spur that went into the building, is built atop springs. That are still producing. Some goes into storm sewers; some is used as grey water. Anyway, fascinating tour….
BTW, the developer, Jamestown, did Chelsea Market and bunches of others; they seemed to know what they were doing at all scales, mega to user to neighborhood to environmental….
Monday, 18 March 2013
Ms/Mr GB Heron, center, just in front of the Muscovy trio.
Right there on the walkway, the GB Heron—perhaps since dawn? Dunno. We didn’t speak.
Sunday, 17 March 2013
No Malus aforethought.
We broke our patterns and (drove) down to Grant Park to walk around the hills above and around the Zoo (without entering it), a rolling zone that used to have springs, but now has dry spots that used to be springs, including one with the label Constitution Spring.
Meanwhile, over by the Cyclorama (closed Sundays and Mondays), we found flags and blossom-heavy ornamental apples (I think).
Saturday, 16 March 2013
Today I passed under a large apple tree in full bloom when the air was quiet and the flower-scent was heavy in the shade of the still-bare branches.
Amidst the complexities of life, we encountered color today. The tulips are a-bloom in some of the out-front beds at the BotGarden, great yellows and maroon-reds. And, at their bases, pansies in a rainbow of colors.
After the park, B invited us in for juice—pressed veggies tempered by a few fruits, oh so yummy. On the bottom, carrot and clementine, pear and cucumber in the middle, beets, beet greens, and kale in the upper magnetic color-band.
Friday, 15 March 2013
I had a bit of a consumerism day. Nothing major, just a series of purchases of little note. Plus lunch out. Sushi buffet.
Thursday, 14 March 2013
I like this spot where the creek cuts through a band of roca madre*.
Has anyone else realized that the name the Pope-Hope has chosen means Daddy Frenchie (chosen by a Argentine of Italian descent).
* Literally, mother rock.
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Got all distracted today, and just walked loopty-loop around the neighborhood—and found the greenest grass (alive)—NOT. Caught my eye, though, through a fence, and then I really looked, and, whoops. Not grass. Just grass-like plastic.
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
I saw pine pollen ponding on Lake Clara Meer—first time this year. And the lake is full, overflowing if the wind tosses up wavelets.
I’m still discombobulated by the time change….