Musings

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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Rusting bird in a shallow birdbath…metaphor for…????…the stability of iron molecules???

Getting on toward sunset…loving the reflections on the power lines.

Waning light at The Stacks…not gonna be seeing this very often or ever going forward.

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Light and no-light is not the same as light and shadow.

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Walking by this healthy stand of bamboo, I thought, why aren’t the world’s ecosystems dominated by cockroaches and bamboo? Or, more abstractly, insects and grasses?

Or maybe they are, if you ignore the little-ees, the viruses, bacteria and their ilk. Which seems like a lot.

A bench and a water feature elevates this front yard to fancy. Needs a touch of weeding, though. Love the cushions.

And I’m so excited: I found out the other day that this is the turkey-tail fungi…I didn’t expect to see one until late next summer. I was wrong.

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Loving this corner storefront, with the clock on the sign. The building’s now eclipsed by most of its neighbors. Cranes are filling in the empty spots. The airspace above the roads is webbed by trolley and stop-light/signage wires.

Although just above the docks, I’m guessing that Berman Luggage most served Seattle’s residents and not visiting sailors.

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I’m starting to get used to the 20° temperature drop that we went through a couple of days ago to reach “normal” temps. Still, I was glad to walk in intermittent sunshine today, and imagine that it made me warmer—and not the act of stepping out….

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We went on an urban wander midday. The sun came out for a while in the morning, and then we had A Gray Day. I didn’t see any homeless people encampments. Some of the area we explored has been used as event parking, and the trash was mostly drink and food containers, the carry-out-and-eat-fast kind…. I looked up at a raised roadway, and on this day particularly liked this contrasting red yield sign.

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