Musings

Like many groc stores, the Buford Highway Farmers Market (without a single farmer in sight) puts flowers right by the front door. I think these MUST be dyed.

These, no. This is “their” color.

Sardines. No can.

Marinated apples. I wondered what the marinade was. Sugary and sweet? Sharp and vinegary? Wine?

Maybe next time I’ll buy one and see. They are in what I call the Eastern European section, but I may have my geography wrong. The Cyrillic script kinda gives it away.

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Here’s more detail than I’ve ever recorded before of the body and lower prongs of a columbine bloom. I have learned there are little sparkles. I am happy to have more sparkles in my life.

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I’ve been meaning to note that the dogwoods are blooming. I have a soft spot for Cornus florida. [And the pears are about finished, leaves supplanting petals.]

Nice color in the sunset sky, but not terribly widespread. Still, I was moved by the orange-pink shading.

Title refers to my touring-Ireland research…spent some time today pondering the limestone plateau that is the Rock of Cashel….

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We had a couple of cold overnights, cold as in below freezing. The hellebore made it through safely, or mostly okay.

The azalea must be more…delicate, though, as it is rotting.

The problem is that these are flowers and we’ll miss them, but this doesn’t reduce food production.

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We’re expecting a low of 26°F overnight, and that’s a real drop for the flowers and me. And homeless people cowboy camping…. (Other things, too, I’m sure.)

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So, is this a picture of pitchers?

“She’s discombobulated from the time change, I see.”

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I’ve been meaning to get out front and photograph the redbud blooms. Wouldn’t you know I’d finally get out there when it was trying to start raining. BTW, this weather is supposed to be snow in the mountains north of us.

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We had only maybe one hundred people show today, but we were strong! In the background, against the building…five minutes later there were three cops and four building security guys. Just standing there in dark uniforms or suit-jackets, shoulders back, shields glistening, eyes obscured by dark, dark-glasses. Chatting, watching, mostly just being present (none eating lunch this time, although the lunch-guy was in the mix). Reports you have heard of aggressive behavior by this group—are as false (alternate) as the talk that we’re paid to appear.

A bit of antidote-energy. Love these red, red tulips we saw the other day at the BotGarden. They’re getting rained on right now. Earlier, when we were downtown on the sidewalk, the rain sprinkled for maybe three minutes, then quit.

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We sampled “Cardinal” tonight. It’s something like “Fortitude” without the sci-fi flavors (at least so far), and with a soupçon of “Broadchurch” and “The Tunnel”—set in Canada. Northish Ontario. So—cold, winter weather gets to be a character.

Oh, and we washed the new buggy. Pollen season is already beginning…. And this is a shrub honeysuckle. Not many blooms left, but they still are odiferous. In a (relatively) good way.

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So, GooEarth was…malfunctioning. I got the Guru involved (whine). He checked this and that and determined that I was suffering DNS problems. So, now I have a new Thang to check when…”refreshing” is failing….

In the larger world, specialists imploded the Georgia Archives building today (my taxes take a hit). And I understand many factions in WashDC are demanding investigations of this and that (more allocations of my taxes that do not benefit education, the environment, etc.).

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