Musings

I cleaned up a forgotten corner of the yard and found this abandoned Nerf-toy entrapped in new spring greenery. I couldn’t tell what neighbor-property it came from to toss it back, so I guess I’ll donate it to the city next Garbage Day.

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I woke up and listened to…quiet. I thought: Sunday. Then, I thought: it’s even quiet for a Sunday. Then, I remembered: marathon. Nearby, and not on our street, but near enough to change traffic patterns, especially diverting through traffic. Hence: unusual quiet from lack of vehicles.

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I don’t know why, but the neighbor’s fancy ride, which is usually only parked in his garage, was out in the elephants.

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I meant to post this yesterday…we had a Mardi Gras parade in our neighborhood. This was afterwards, just normal illegal parking. Not all the festivities this weekend had to do with athletes.

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I wanted to look at the snowflake emoji close up. While researching, I found out this is the Apple snowflake, not The Other Kind. I like that it’s off axis and not exactly aligned up-down, and side-to-side.

A long time ago, I looked at a few snowflakes close up. This is not what they looked like…not delicate enough. But it works great displayed in my texting app.

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You may have heard about this nasty storm system—2K miles plus wide. We’ve been hearing about it for at least a week, along with warnings to Prepare. I got these household must-haves on Tuesday. Tuesday, mind you. Yes, we’re Prepared.

Yesterday, I visited the drug store for non-groc items. I did not buy one of these. The coming storm is a rain-becoming-ice storm, so snow shovels not effective.

However, the storm coming after this one, yup, it may snow on us. Let’s get through this weekend first, though. I am not looking forward to it At All.

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Shall we ponder the contrasts between the angles and the shapes they outline, and the organic shapes of the twigs through the glass?

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Tree to self a year or so ago, in a moody rumble: No one walking by on that sidewalk looks up at my green mop and crowning glory…what to do? Aha, I’ll send sprouts out of my bark at eye level.

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Getting clean…a fine idea for beginning the new year.

Traditional Southern New Year’s meal, also a fine idea.

As to the title, we were driving back to ATL from our tasty luncheon in the late afternoon. It turned out that we were driving into the sun, which on several stretches was directly in our eyes. This was additionally tricky because we were on a two-lane relatively rural road with no extra space between the pavement and the ditch. Tricky. The technical term is a sunshine slow-down.

A bit further along, we happened on lines of cars pulled off the road (just barely: narrow road, remember) and parked almost in the ditch, with people standing next to road or walking in the lanes to join clusters of loiterers. Very strange. We eased our way along, passing dozens more vehicles. Increasingly strange. Then, coming at us, driving slowly, we encountered a police car with flashing lights. And around another curve, we found a line of walking Buddhist monks, maybe a dozen, with a dog on a leash, following the police car.

I’m taking all this as good omens for our 2026.

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We had some fine times this year (on a personal level). Still, I’m very much looking forward to 2026.

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