Musings
These guys are doing their volleyball thing like there’s no covid likely to be transmitted while heavy-breathing. [Two weeks ago, the MLB allowed baseball teams to open spring training; now they’ve got so many Covid-Positive players and staff that everything’s closed again. A cosmos for the rest of us.]
Among the many remodeling, construction, and rebuilding activities that are underway because: covid closed, trucks today removed several portable trailer-classrooms from a nearby elementary school. I look forward to seeing how this works out. Fewer classrooms to densify students? THAT doesn’t make sense…so what are they up to? Standing by….
Posted at 8:18 PM |
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In my head, I call these covid car spots…whether there’s a car (or other vehicle) there or not. They are distinguished by the drip line and sedimentation pattern. Many covid cars have been moved…this one is a fresh exit. [It’s by the house where a couple walked their cats (one each) during the height of staying home.]
Some city people water their sidewalks. I’m not sure, but I hypothesize that they think it’ll make the cracks seal up.
Whimsical sculpture…by fence. Is it a razorback hog? A dog with muscular thighs? Not sure.
Posted at 6:56 PM |
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Pro-tomato, anti-squirrel cage technology.
I still see this and have to translate from Bureau of Land Management to…#BLM.
Hosta bloom portrait. Moderately successful.
Posted at 7:05 PM |
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I walked along a street I rarely visit and found this oversized thistle. Stunning.
This resembles a travertine flow at Yellowstone, yet it’s a cascade of fungi.
Large TV in a small apartment. A basement apartment. Pure spectator anthropology. [Full disclosure: I saw no people; I did not hang around; I stopped and took a photo, then moved on.]
Posted at 8:29 PM |
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This one’s obvious. And red.
Here’s a duck family social distancing. Or maybe together-ing.
And me social distancing, by heading off to the right to avoid the slip-stream of these folks. In fact, the whole way up the west side of the lake I happily did not encounter another person, and thus I had to do no slipstream countermeasures. I’m thinking that’s a good name for a band [“Slipstream Countermeasures, on stage Friday…in 2021”]…perhaps too long?
Posted at 7:15 PM |
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I know this as butterfly weed. But I didn’t trust my recollection, so I searched the database of digital knowledge. Turns out: yup. And it’s in the milkweed genus…more evidence of my boundless ignorance.
Best part: the butterfly sunglasses.
Posted at 6:40 PM |
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Good vibes morning sky.
Don’t recognize this tree (shrub?).
Just a bit of mystery to this fence-shadow.
Rain cells came through afternoon and evening, so it’s a good thing I got a nice morning sky photo—evening would have been…drizzle.
Posted at 9:17 PM |
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And…2020 is almost half over. Still 2020, however.
Not new.
Not new at all.
For grins: today’s botanical photo is of rounded decorative leaves. No blooms, blossoms, or flowers.
Posted at 7:49 PM |
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Near as I can tell, the “Be Kind” was purposefully added right next to the security sign. Strange juxtaposition.
Kinda like these times.
Posted at 7:27 PM |
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Rain overnight. Plants need the precip. I needed the change in weather. Cooler! I heard that last year at this time, ATL had had 20 days at 90°F and above—this year, zero. I walked in high 70°s…and was very happy.
I worry about “Vehicles towed…” signs that do not also say WHERE!…or at least give a [functioning] phone number. Gorgeous two-story columns do not balance my worries.
Delicate mushroom. Had to include a plant kingdom photo. Ooops. No longer plant kingdom—fungi kingdom. ([cranky voice] What! Oh. Fungi kingdom was proposed in 1969. I learned the kingdoms back when fungi were plants. [So there.] 😜 )
Posted at 6:05 PM |
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