What’s your accent color?
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Mysteriously, the color wheel came to mind the other day. I thought of it again when I saw this house.
I particularly like the mailbox….
Musings
___ on the ___
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
There’s a phrase—smoke on the water. Well, what we saw today was flurries on the mountains.
Watch it!
Sunday, 24 January 2010
I was just paging through Bittman’s Food Matters (2008)—library copy!, which not only presents food philosophy, but also recipes. He advocates essentially eating farther down the food chain—more fruits and veggies. This also reduces your energy footprint (meat is expensive to grow).
Then, in the recipes, there’s one for roasted garlic. Take a (as in one) head of garlic and put it in the oven for 45 minutes.
There goes your green quotient down the tubes….
Too much brown?
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
I’ve been inspired by the new camera to think about still life photos again, the composition thing. Although I took this one with the Lumix….
Earlier this week, I spotted the umbrella and the pansy counterpoints and tried to do something with them. This is the best, and still leaves me rather cold.
I finally decided that mostly the problem is all the shades of brown.
I like the straight lines, with only a few curves: the wreath, the light, and, above all, the fish-pot in the front. And the pansies.
Still, to my eye, the yellow provides the only non-brown, and it’s just not enough.
Or maybe I’m just too critical.
Off to dip back into an Xmas book, Julia Child’s My Life in France.
Foggy morn, late summer, Ohio
Friday, 4 September 2009
We left amidst moderately dense groundfog across southern Michigan and northwestern Ohio. This down in Ohio, with the rising sun across the fields. Fortunately, we saw no accidents, but it was soupy enough that I thought it a bit dangerous. We stayed off the Interstate, routing via Ottawa, and I don’t know if that was wiser or not.
News from Piedmont Park
Monday, 10 August 2009
This sign usually brings a smile to my face. Lake Clara Meer most often looks kinda gunky and unpleasant for swimming, although the fisherfolk seem to find it sufficiently appetizing to toss in their lines.
Now, however, the big story I read about is the fish die-off that the lollygaggers and other park visitors noted on Sunday. We didn’t walk there yesterday, so we missed it.
Not today.
Yup, the reports are correct. It’s a mess, but the windrows of belly-ups are localized. The smell, however, is not. The lake’s emitting a lovely odor reminiscent of a Third-World fish market lacking refrigeration and running water.
Sure enough, the DNR arrived in force to do whatever they do in such a situation. The die-off has been attributed to an algal bloom. We’ve been seeing worse algae that I saw today for over a month, although I’m certain low oxygen is a notable factor. What I’ve seen recently that’s new is a bunch of teeny fishies that I first saw on Saturday.
Frankly, I’m also surprised by the quantity of dead feesh, overpopulation seems an important factor here. But, I’m no lacustrine specialist.
The stunner in all this: most of the dead—and the lazy-swimming survivors—were panfish and carp and catfish (not that I know my feesh species); however, I did spot one eel—I assume an American Eel (Anguilla rostrata), those critters who do their spawning in the Atlantic.
Distortions
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Our unbelievably cool overnight weather continues, meaning walking is quite tolerable even leaving at 7 am.
We visited with our neighbors last night and found out that his favorite hike in this area includes travel on the MARTA train for a stop to avoid a stretch that’s unpleasant for walking. I love that idea!
Where’s my chalk?
Thursday, 18 June 2009
Someone drew quite a few critters to decorate a stretch of sidewalk. I liked the phoenix with the pink feet sitting on the nest of eggs, although the extra-long dinosaur bellowing “RAUR” was pretty special, too.
Black leather lifer
Monday, 18 May 2009
Sometimes you just see people and their vehicles in traffic, and you have to make up the whole backstory to go with them. Sometimes you have a little more info, like an insight from bumper stickers. Here, we had the Harley jacket, the bike itself, the anti-helmet headgear, and, in the next block after this red light, he turned into a Buffalo Wings bar.
What we have to guess is whether it was a long or short night.
Tower silhouettes
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Perfect evening for watching the sun set out by the pool…and then the ’skeeters came out, so we decamped to the balcony, and the sunset extended for hours.
Thanks, M!