Musings

On a late-afternoon walk exploration in the neighborhood of friends, a place unfamiliar to us in any detail, we discovered a lovely county park, sheltering historic Trimborn Farm.

As we wandered among the outbuildings clustered around the house, they all seemed to be related to farming until I spotted this one long stone structure that seemed quite industrial. Of course, we’d wandered onto the property through a side field, completely bypassing the hysterical marker, so we had no cues from the written word.

The Guru, determined to utilize all powers bestowed by the iPhone, quickly googled and discovered we were looking at the remains of a lime operation.

Diversification in farm country, I thought….

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Another huge symbol of colonialism looms in the sky….

I dug into the files to find this picture from St. Louis, this day in 2004. In truth, we got some rain off and on today here in ATL.

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…in which a strong silent type followed us home today.

(See tomorrow.)

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I’m proud to say JCB and I walked a piece of the Pacific Crest Trail, up above 6K feet even!

I admit we got not quite a mile away from Timberline Lodge (or the Wikipedia link), but for flat-landers from the Deep South, slogging through soft snow in sneakies was hard walking, as in soft sand!

Fortunately the rotten snow (maybe fresh last week?) wasn’t very deep, and my feet stayed dry. (Gore-tex in the shoes may have helped, too!)

I’m composing this sitting in front of the huge plate glass windows in the second floor bar looking up at the mountain. Life is darned good.

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Backlighting can be your friend!

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You never know what you’ll find in a shop window these days….

Seems like someone is promoting the idea that a small wine shop in the right neighborhood would be a fine, perhaps growing, concern.

Maybe it’ll be like the balloon-shop fad, which lasted several years most places, but persists in, it seems to me, much of rural America.

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Light inspires me.

Light plus texture—truly exciting.

Thinking about fabric today (not like Ababsurdo or Mouse). Instead, we’re considering getting new curtains for the living and dining rooms. The consumer role is not one of my favorites. Additionally, I think this new curtain thing may require me to somehow convert some panels with fabric that I like into pinch-pleated drapery that I—we—will enjoy living with, which will require me to dip into a skill set that I have but rarely choose to activate.

What irony—curtains block that same inspirational light….

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You had to guess that the iPhone capability I’d latch onto with the most fervor would be the camera.

Conclusion: I’ve got to de-zoom my viewpoint.

Final assessment: this “photographer” needs more practice.

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This morning, before the sun really started heating up this city, we made our usual trek to Piedmont Park, where we found the natatorium all closed up—a real marker of the transition out of summer.

iPhone update: The Guru was up until almost 3 am getting AT&T and the powers that be to do his bidding and get the iPhone initialized (plus load all our data, etc.). Apparently it will receive calls—the last step in getting it working—by late this aft.

Whooohoo!

PS I understand that we’re still last-century in that we don’t EACH have our own cell….

PPS For Enquiring Minds, no, this photo was taken with the “new camera” not the iPhone….

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Art on the Lake.

Little ol’ Curtis’ claim to fame.

Busy. Sunny hot. Lots of sales. Including at Gail’s.

These lovely, fun, exotic fish are a new innovation. I should have gotten one!

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