Monday, 11 March 2013
Can you see the two-gosling cluster between the foreground parent and the rocks? One is facing me and chomping on a leaf. The goose diet here must have little variability.
I walked this morning because of precipitation rumors in the morning meteorological reports. They were right; it’s raining now.
Sunday, 10 March 2013
Here’s a condoized ex-warehouse/manufacturing building, right by the RR right-of-way that’s now the BeltLine walkway. This area used to be a prime zone for manufacturing, but now it’s where people want to live—great sky views, quiet (no trains any more), now with bicyclists, dog-walkers, joggers, and skate-boarders….
And trees, shrubs, and grass….
Saturday, 9 March 2013
By the time we got out the door to walk, we found the cloud layer unbroken overhead. In this case, a stag-head. Statue.
Friday, 8 March 2013
Critters spotted on my walk today included a large black cat being carried away from the dog-run areas at PiedPark. The cat was on a leash. Rather strange. Still, I’m guessing it didn’t run with the dogs.
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Here’s the afternoon update on the pig manure prepped area I mentioned the other day. They’ve spread manure over a slightly larger area, and now I see paint-dots. I’m assuming that in the coming days someone will say, shrub X pots go on the sky-blue dots & shrub Y on the green dots. Then, after they’re spread out, start digging the planting holes.
Is it a hypothesis that I didn’t have enough distractions when I was walking this afternoon, so I came up with fanciful scenarios about things that I would know the answer to if I just waited a day or a week?
Yeah. Thinking: yeah.
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
What you can’t tell about this picture is that the light only strikes here when the sun angle transits through the equinox phases of the year. And we’re close—it’s the 20th of this month….
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Having checked out the current meteorological projections, we headed out mid-morning to enjoy the sunshine predicted to disappear by mid-afternoon.
The weatherfolk got it right today.
Sunny this morning, making this new bench in the Old/Historic Fourth Ward Park gleam. Rainy now.
Monday, 4 March 2013
Can you see the two goslings between Mama and Papa?
I’m guessing this is the goose family I saw in the making the other day…. I found the next empty except for some fluff being dispersed by the wind.
Sorry to send more goose-poopers out into the world; on the other hand, it’s a victory for Mother Nature to produce something from what had been for decades a yucky industrial site.
Sunday, 3 March 2013
A bit nippy and windy today, so we were very glad the sky was clear and the sun was out. Instead of walking in the park, we wandered IKEA. Buying nothing. IKEA was its usual Sunday-busy, and we had to park in the lower level; IKEA makes the choice for you, channeling vehicles with gates and orange cones, so that you feel like you’re navigating a giant pinball machine….
Saturday, 2 March 2013
Garbanzo-bean skins headed for the compost pile.
Today’s phrase: nuisance snow. Used to be: snow flurries, with no accumulation expected. In the lightest sense.
I saw nuisance snow at least four different times when I headed out today….