Musings

Here’s what I think of as the shady side of Ponce City Market. Flag looks good, though.

Pair of geese, foreground. Crane, background. I wondered if the geese were thinking about nesting there, but later, they were swimming. I think it’s a relatively problematic nesting location. Crane wheeled around, but did not move its “feet/foot.”

When I went by southbound, I heard/saw two musicians playing here next to the BeltLine #weloveATL photo exhibit, making it into dual art media, I thought. Northbound, one was gone and the other was checking her phone. Is that still art?

Curious quote that may have no relevance to everyday life: “It is smaller than a human hair, resembles a mushroom, and is thought to be the earliest fossil of a land-dwelling organism.” Find the full story here.

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Depending on your point of view…

…either the above or the below is irreverent.

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We aren’t into saints, but we do respect romantic love. We splurged on dinner ingredients, a treat for each other. We picked never-frozen Georgia shrimp, and I sautéed them in Euro-butter right before serving…mmmm.

This may not look like it, but it’s public art—a closeup of the “veneer” on a concrete platform for a trash can next to a nearby sand-volleyball court (no beach).

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I found a horsetail hedge today. Actually, I’ve seen it before, but it didn’t occur to me that what I was seeing has an alliterative name.

Speaking of horses—and carriages—here’s a mounting block, I assume more recent than the days when it was needed, and thus for show. I would have expected the name to be on the street side…. Maybe the owner prefers to look out his (her?) front door and see his (her?) name out by the street, creating a feel-good (possessive?) moment?

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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?).

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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.

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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.

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These crocuses surprised me—seems pretty darned early for them, even in ATL. (#notmyyard #notmygarden)

The sign says “open,” but the restaurant’s really closed and for lease. It’s not that I’m a skeptic!—it really is!

This is just a simple, organic beauty shot, the kind I like so well…in this case, gleaming chestnuts from China.

Today’s a Random-Topic Friday in this little spot on the web.

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The core part of the commercial area in the Ponce City Market is open, along with the parking garage (at least part of it anyway). I’m not sure about the housing/apartments. This part is more commercial. I laughed to see that it acquired graffiti before being finished.

This massive hole is next to the Old Fourth Ward Park, and the towering white crane was winging around as I approached the view port in the fence, w-a-a-y above my head. I’m assuming housing or mixed commercial and residential. Plus parking.

Between the Olympics and the BeltLine, Atlanta’s in-town infrastructure has changed over the last generation.

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I thought about steps today, about architectural solutions to elevation change between the sidewalk and a house. Nothing monumental in that…just functional problem-solving.

This is simple, however—footprints in mud. People (sneakers) and dog.

Are Fitb_t steps (possibly simply footfalls?) simpler or more complex?

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