Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Zip-A-Tone, a brand (type? haha) of screentone.
Our neighbors are doing some flinging preparatory to remodeling, and gifted this fine selection to JCB.
Takes me back—and I was never a graphic designer!
Mmmmmm; kitchen smells great—regular white ’taters, cauliflower, and brussels sprouts are roasting in the oven….
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Find this ex-roundhouse and turntable here (33.73155,-84.39808) on a map.
This Southern Railway complex was called the South Shops, later the Pegram Shops. The railroad infrastructure has been decommissioned as the shipping business has shifted to the roads (semis and containers). It’s across I-75/85 from Turner Field, now slated for destruction.
What cracked me up are the huge potted palm trees against the building. John says they use the complex as a movie set.
We visited another historic building, the hilltop former Coats & Clark thread mill (on a map here: 33.83189,-84.65691). They just did the spinning there; dying was elsewhere. The mill closed in 1983, and it’s now (at least an attempt at) a mall.
Read more about the thread mill from the historical marker text….
Sunday, 8 December 2013
Spotted in a mall shopping lot (we lunched out, you see; and needed some boxes of tissues…that kind of thing).
I guess everyone has shopping to do this time of year….
Sunday, 8 December 2013
D noticed this “hairy lampshade,” her term, and so apt.
Yeah, these are from yesterday, but I keep thinking of them.
The grass in the surround is…fake—the marble I’m not sure about.
Saturday, 7 December 2013
I remain confused about the tour-of-homes events this time of the year—were they always at yule-time? ’Course the whole thing about inviting people to tour the non-public areas of your house—when it’s not for sale and the residents aren’t present—is just a bit odd….
Anyway, a kind, sweet neighbor invited me to visit a few of the homes on this year’s tour, and this tree was in a lovely aerie-sunroom that would have been my favorite space hands-down in this house…for me and a pile of books.
I loved that in every home the holiday decorations were more idiosyncratic than the everyday decor, perhaps because some were inherited (curated, the archaeologists might call them) or otherwise had more longevity and a different style.
Funny how, when I looked back through the two-dozen or so photos that I took, most were of bathrooms. Makes no sense to me.
Friday, 6 December 2013
Marinated sashimi salmon in (fancy Japanese organic) soy and fresh ginger, and stir-fried assorted veg over (also fancy and organic) udon noodles—fine, fine, meal!
Friday, 6 December 2013
From yesterday at the market.
There’s some vocabulary: pissenlit. Pronounced pee-sohn-leet. Thanks, Google Translate.
Thursday, 5 December 2013
Seduced once again by the sounds in the word “rambutan“…a photo, not a purchase.
Instead, we did the Oaxaca thing—herbs for a pot of black beans, warm tortillas, the right string cheese ball, a perfect avocado, some tomatillos and tomatoes, limes, onions, the full complement of goodies….
