Musings
We took advantage of the weekend 10% across the board Target discount, a nod to the 40 million card numbers that Target’s computers did not keep safe, but only very lightly. No Barbies—I saw carts with multiple Barbies roaming the aisles. No clothing. Odds and ends like…toilet paper.
On a different stop, we were looking for inexpensive bourbon for…Bourbon Balls! Growing up, Mom orchestrated the baking of dozens of cookies in several styles, along with usually three, kinds of fruitcake, and the unbaked Bourbon Balls. Me, I get to the Bourbon Balls, and rarely farther.
We found this peeling mural of a Maasi warrior on one of our non-Target stops….
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We’re getting cranked up on the holiday decorations front. Well, actually, these lights have been on for a few weeks. The rest…um, still in the storage boxes. Except a fine wreath courtesy of my FIL on the front door….
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View south, immediately east of Kirkwood at Kenyon, in SE Atlanta.
We went for a drive, which is kinda strange since it’s not Sunday, but the sun was inviting and off we went. We wound along old roads (truly; they were there during the Civil War/War of Northern Aggression—and before) near Kennesaw Mountain, and then dropped down to Mableton, then followed the old highway into Atlanta.
We encountered the Beltline ROW north of Memorial Drive, and I was happy to see the Beltline Art is there, too, not just along the developed section near Piedmont Park.
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I was globe-wandering today, the cheap way—using Google Earth. These fields are just west-southwest of Stonehenge, and I just loved the colors and textures of the fields and borders, along with the barrows (or whatever), that the farmers avoided.
British archaeology literature often carries mention of crop marks, and Google Earth is an excellent tool for exposing them. Crop marks result from the differential moisture, soil quality, etc. above and around archaeological features (e.g., foundations or building wall bases, fire pits, etc.). The soil variation can be stark or subtle.
In this area around Stonehenge, crop marks and above-ground features are all over the place. Even after centuries of plowing and other degradation. Archaeologists now look at Stonehenge not as a bunch of stones, but as one dramatic feature in a landscape of occupation and use. Which is as it should be. After all, people didn’t just hang at Stonehenge.
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Did just a few quick errands today, and my ground-alerted eyes found these two, in different parking lots. I found the cross one first (1974), and then the normal one (1984).
I guess they’re my two-cents worth.
(Perhaps misleading) title from The Big Bang Theory (TV show).
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I’m coming down with something, and now in an extended period of not-here-yet-full-blown (sniff). In my mind’s eye, I am doing my best at containing a huge potential for spewing germs, thus controlling, in some way, the genetic future of the mini-critters incubating in my corpus…kind of a personal GMO enterprise?
On the other hand, wonderful moonlight! Great time to be in the Great White North on a clear night…. (Downed leaves don’t reflect quite the same.)
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I’ve been making veggie salads the last few days—if you count tomatoes as a dietary veggie (yeah, I know it’s not botanically a veggie). This is yesterday’s tomato-avocado salad (with cilantro, lime juice, green onion tops, that kind of thing). I forgot to photo today’s hummus, with shredded fresh mint and toasted pignolas on top.
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I never know what I’ll find at the international supermarkets; JCB spotted these gummy sharks. Love the white belly/dark back detail.
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Yeah, this was the other day, but I’m still liking it, especially the little strokes that represent the fountain (top of banner).
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In this area, I have learned that this bloom is a winter-indicator.
I first wrote that the camellia was a harbinger of winter, but it isn’t quite—it’s not a forerunner, it’s a marker. Etymologically, harbinger is related to harbor—of all things.
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