Musings

Tonight, the sky showed some color! 8:31pm.

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Since the early morning photo wasn’t interesting, I decided to try early evening…this was 8:37pm. The clouds suggest the meteorologists are right, that we may get some rain overnight. Ho-hum.

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Here’s the closest I came today to being inventive and artistic. I admit I had to use an app to create it.

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This lichen is busy breaking down this stepping stone, although busy isn’t the correct word for this slow-growing species…and it is really multiple component organisms (species) growing symbiotically in a lichen colony, although, against all odds, species names are given to lichens.

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I stepped out for one of those pretty-sky early morning shots, this time at 6:45am. Not so pretty as last winter. I’m blaming it on the mugginess and oak trees and chemistry turning the lovely color streaks of months ago into blue-bland.

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I just found out this is a native plant, Passiflora lutea, commonly called yellow passionflower.

OMT = one more time, as in OMT, my ignorance is diminished a tiny bit.

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Red fruit. That’s all I’ve got.

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There’re two things about deep in the earth that I read today, perhaps three, depending on how you count them.

Two volcanoes are active…Etna, now, and Kīlauea (Halema‘uma‘u vents), until late yesterday.

Also, and this blew me away, scientists who study the deep biosphere argue that 10–50 % of the earth’s biomass is there—deep, deep, miles deep—where there’s no photosynthesis. Wow.

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Pruning time. Also: night photo with natural light.

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Back in March 2024, I wrote about the twin magnolia trees next to the BeltLine that used to be behind the outfield of the Ponce de Leon Ballpark and up against the railroad ROW (before it became the BeltLine). Just the other day, one of the magnolias collapsed. Fortunately, Trees Atlanta has cloned the magnolias, so there’s a new generation (if the term is appropriate) growing along the BeltLine.

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