Between the wiper-swipes
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Reaching back to the weekend, we motored home via Experiment GeeA—named for the UGA Experiment Station there. Sleepy place on a rainy winter Sunday afternoon.
Musings
Not so clear
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Strange medallion decoration on the bridge crossing Clear Creek at the south end of Orme Park. The other day. When it was sunny.
No sunshine today; overcast became rain, then wind (shudder). A tornado messed up Adairsville, about 40 miles down I-75 from Ringgold, which got hit in April of last year. Temps are dropping from about 70°F this morning (weird) to a low of 35°F predicted overnight….
Adventures in the greater neighborhood
Thursday, 24 January 2013
The Beltline along the abandoned RR by Piedmont Park, glorious in the winter sunshine today….
Date night here in ATL. We took a generous gift card over to Rathbun’s, one of the premier “fancy” places here in town, and enjoyed a lovely meal. With valet parking—soooo Downton.
Google-travel
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
I’ve been wandering lately (aka procrastination)—via satellite views on GoogleMaps. I found the Costa Concordia on its side next to the Isola del Giglio….
And I found a grey-face? Maybe? Is this an intentional distortion? An artifact of shadows?
This is on a partly destroyed cold war missile installation inland on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, called Tolchester. Still find the face mystifying.
Graaaahnd hotel (not MacIsland)
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Saratoga Springs. Yes. New York. (Can’t find web domain; like I note, soooo last century.)
Ah, so last century. In a good way.
Here at lunch time. Ate not here at the yuppie place, but down the street at a diner, serving breakfast all day.
Neighborhood news
Monday, 19 November 2012
As my astute spouse noted, there’s no evidence of a tree-fall; instead, this is voluntary house-surgery.
Gnomon-truth on a disjointed day
Sunday, 4 November 2012
Sun time. Gnomon reality.
Political expediency brings us today’s autumnal time change (with its spring twin).
Gnomon is from the Greek for indicator.
Changing of the guard
Friday, 26 October 2012
The Indian name for this place, I swear, must have been something like “Rapids with herons and turtles downstream.”
Indeed, the post-Colonials who dammed this stretch must have been channeling (ahem) ancient times, when they named their flow-stopper Eagle & Phenix Dam (two majestic birds of reality and myth).
Of course, when they blew the dam, archaeologists…monitored…what was revealed….
And now, six months after the dynamite (or whatever they used), we saw many turtles, including one with a shell more than a foot long, and herons, including one that nabbed and swallowed a feesh right in front of us, just downstream of the old dam site (or dam old site).
Hand cramps?
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Tempted by the new iPad mini?
It’s 5.3 inches wide, and after fiddling with a ruler, I’m thinking that my hand doesn’t have a wide enough span for that to be comfortable to hold between thumb and fingers. I saw in the demo that some models were holding it on one edge. That sounds tricky too, as you have to avoid spurious contact with the touchscreen.
My thought is, hold one first if you have smaller hands and desire one-handedness….