Unseen
Tuesday, 9 February 2016
Unseen: snow flurries.
Unseen: biting, cold wind.
Conclusion: winter weather re-materialized.
Musings
Longevity and the park (a new serial?)
Monday, 8 February 2016
Let me lead with the headline: we ate our longevity noodles just like you’re supposed to for Chinese New Year (I bet they don’t use the C word). The trick is that the noodles have to be long and you can’t bite them, hence the slurping stereotype. And long life.
Did get out; did find some sunshine.
Also discovered a sleeping duck on the newly landscaped lawn, contravening the friendly sign.
Crane above
Sunday, 7 February 2016
Somehow the day slipped away (mostly), and we ventured out late, when most of the Old Fourth Ward Park pond was in shadow…and looked ever so different than during any slice of mid-day light.
Keep count
Saturday, 6 February 2016
Courthouse number one: great sunlight. Love the bands of colors—different materials, varied workmanship. So Florentine (or something).
Courthouse number two: sunshine shown on best side. Such a modest building. Still, it has the square surrounding that all downtown traffic must travel around the building.
At least until sunset. After…heh, werewolves (or wearwolves? fashion plates?).
Undecided
Friday, 5 February 2016
Not about my vote, but about what photo to post. I think I ceded a few IQ points to the sunshine when we soaked it in by Mr. Frog (Reader version) at the ABG. This is his (seems male to me) shoulder weld.
At the conservatory, we enjoyed the mystery mist effect.
Sometime we’ll stop here for a snack and a glass of wine. This is the patio refreshment stand, and it’s relatively new. So far, if we eat, we enjoy the café.
Bye, ABG.
Embracing light
Thursday, 4 February 2016
I’m noticing the seasonal change in the light, the longer days and shifting angle. This is oh so very good. 😊🍀
Out, about
Wednesday, 3 February 2016
Heavy, intense rains this morning filled the streets, flowed in the back door at Trader Joe’s, and rearranged the mulch in this bed.
I strolled after the precip had stopped and found a baby-blue Mous-tang. The color looked a tad unreal in the overcast.
I also found a Buddha being overtaken by winter weeds.
And this morning the weather forecast/discussion I read mentioned “an enhanced zone of elevated cape”‚ no idea what all that means
Fog, then sun
Tuesday, 2 February 2016
Should “one” have a “big thought” every day? Even stretching, I can’t manufacture one from today.
I did see a very foggy morning…on an early milk run…so I could create my second cuppa. This is the crane on the south side of the Ponce City Market in the heavy fog we had in the pre-dawn hours.
Later, the sun gave us a high, I heard, of 76°F. Waaaaay above normal (the low 50s). While I loved the warm, sunny, toasty afternoon, I also was a tad queasy. Such weather anomalies suggest the climate is off-kilter, and that has negative implications for many, many people, and for our global political economy.
My stretch…to connect (pink) flowers to El Niño…and more.
Sunlit finds
Monday, 1 February 2016
More unexpected blooms…pretty darned early to find phlox. Love ’em, though.
Strolled by this 20th-C church on Degress Avenue just as it was catching the late-day light. Apparently the building is a remodeled house. It’s on the hilltop that was ground zero for the Battle of Atlanta on 22 July 1864, at least in the version portrayed in the Cyclorama (currently being restored at the Atlanta History Center). Love the capitals atop the skeuomorphic (right?) columns that are really small-scale buttresses if you look behind the bushes.