Friday, 11 December 2015
Beltline art. Lots of metal pieces this time. Does that mean more funding for materials? Sorry, didn’t get artist’s name or the title of the piece.
Nature’s art (kinda). The new streetlights make more distinct shadows that I found eye-catching when I was out taking a lap after dusk. Probably helps that most of the leaves are down….
Thursday, 10 December 2015
I’ve been eyeing this wreath in a shop window when I’ve walked by over the last two weeks or so. I do not know what the leaves are made of. First I thought leather. Then I saw veins. Stumped.
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
I thought moon gates were for luck, but I understand it’s not really that at all. Circle of life, completeness of family (and returning home)…. Both good.
I pondered what the multi-cultural, complex symbolism would be if there was mistletoe hanging in the moon gate….
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
Someone put three of these atop posts like angular finials in a garden redesign on a floodplain along the street. The house is set far back, across the creek, accessed via a bridge. The creek is very dissected (in a deep-cut channel); it’s my understanding that this happened in within the last two centuries.
Monday, 7 December 2015
Quite a patio setup for a sunny weekday afternoon, I thought. Then remembered last weekend our neighborhood hosted a tour of homes. This must have been one that was open.
Some time later I came across something that caught my eye on the parking lot, looked closely enough to ID it…then went on. And turned back to get a photo. Is part of the backstory that this is outside a fitness facility?
Okay, a pretty. I enjoyed walking through the mist from the fountain because the sun was hotter than I anticipated. This one wasn’t unexpected, so the title fibs.
Sunday, 6 December 2015
I’ve been looking at this mural on the side wall of Moe’s and Joe’s for several weeks, and wondering about this fellow…since we’re not M&J denizens, he was a mystery to me, smiling down…until G__gle revealed this.
Horace McKennie was the tavern’s venerable bartender and waitron for over five decades. He started within two years after the place opened in 1947. Moe and Joe were brothers, surname Krinsky. (Bar history here.)
The place in 1949…about the time Horace started working at the bar/tavern.
Wish that kosher gro was still there….
Saturday, 5 December 2015
I wasn’t trying to find another firehose (following yesterday’s), but I came across this one, in a circular storage bracket. Love the skinny stairs, too.
Friday, 4 December 2015
Looks to me like these are poised to host weekend fun.
I love the single loop of firehose that looks like it’s trying to escape.
Thursday, 3 December 2015
So, if you get a brand new house and hard-scaping walls built…do you also pay to get them painted?
This new-house-owner opted for yes on painting and chose, it looks like, colonial white.
With the bushes carefully covered because who would want their oh-so-green bushes tinged white.
You don’t like the bushes-covering situation…well, here’s a snowflake-star.
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Two specimens of lower forms of plant life (fungi): lichen and red stinkhorns.
In this discussion, “lower” means closer to the ground surface.