Monday, 28 December 2015
Despite concerns about muddy spots, I did a bit more alley-prowling today. I guess the horizontal clapboard is a given. The gate, someone made a choice. Could have matched the clapboard, but that would have meant more sawing. So, the gate has vertical panels. And the two contrast.
Sunday, 27 December 2015
The Guru headed out with me on a pedestrian wander, and suggested we cross The Big, Noisy Street that I usually don’t go near. On the other side, we came across this urban camp, although we got no closer than this. There are pants hanging from a low branch that are difficult to pick out. I couldn’t tell if the occupier was present.
Love public art. Sure don’t necessarily understand it. This is a small part of an installation called New Endings by Diane Solomon Kempler. It was first installed at the site of Atlanta’s first public water supply for the Olympics in 1996. Now it’s in an out-of-the-way cove miles from that spot.
Tuesday, 22 December 2015
Love the homemade yard decorations I find when out and about, especially the ones that don’t look like Halloween-gone-wild. Here’s a copy of the Garden-of-Good-and-Evil gal in a festive, holiday mode. With the holly and evergreen boughs, ya gotta assume she’s pretty darned pagan.
Wednesday, 16 December 2015
Infrastructure 😉 at Ponce City Market….
Glass incorporated into the paving material in Old Fourth Ward Park near the kids playground.
The two cents? I found two cents last week, and also this. Are the Fates indicating something? Not sure….
Friday, 11 December 2015
Beltline art. Lots of metal pieces this time. Does that mean more funding for materials? Sorry, didn’t get artist’s name or the title of the piece.
Nature’s art (kinda). The new streetlights make more distinct shadows that I found eye-catching when I was out taking a lap after dusk. Probably helps that most of the leaves are down….
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
I thought moon gates were for luck, but I understand it’s not really that at all. Circle of life, completeness of family (and returning home)…. Both good.
I pondered what the multi-cultural, complex symbolism would be if there was mistletoe hanging in the moon gate….
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
Someone put three of these atop posts like angular finials in a garden redesign on a floodplain along the street. The house is set far back, across the creek, accessed via a bridge. The creek is very dissected (in a deep-cut channel); it’s my understanding that this happened in within the last two centuries.
Sunday, 6 December 2015
I’ve been looking at this mural on the side wall of Moe’s and Joe’s for several weeks, and wondering about this fellow…since we’re not M&J denizens, he was a mystery to me, smiling down…until G__gle revealed this.
Horace McKennie was the tavern’s venerable bartender and waitron for over five decades. He started within two years after the place opened in 1947. Moe and Joe were brothers, surname Krinsky. (Bar history here.)
The place in 1949…about the time Horace started working at the bar/tavern.
Wish that kosher gro was still there….
Saturday, 5 December 2015
I wasn’t trying to find another firehose (following yesterday’s), but I came across this one, in a circular storage bracket. Love the skinny stairs, too.
Friday, 4 December 2015
Looks to me like these are poised to host weekend fun.
I love the single loop of firehose that looks like it’s trying to escape.