Friday, 29 January 2016
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.
Thursday, 28 January 2016
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.
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
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?
Sunday, 17 January 2016
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.
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
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.
Tuesday, 12 January 2016
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.
Saturday, 2 January 2016
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….
Friday, 1 January 2016
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.
Thursday, 31 December 2015
We got out in the sunshine part of the day, and wandered the passageways of Oakland Cemetery. We found the African-American and the Jewish sections, which I had never entered before. The potter’s field area is, I think, the lowest part, and after the recent rains, pretty damp (aka saturated).
I don’t know the symbolism of the shell. Or at least, I never heard that angels sleep in bivalve shells. I have read that scallop shells are fertility symbols and, in Christianity, represent St James and St Augustine. Those three, with angels, seems both powerful and a mixed message.
