Wednesday, 23 April 2014
I lived out in the country when I was a kid, and when I read about alleys I wondered what they were like. I didn’t know even if there were many alleys in the US of A, or if they were mostly in Europe.
Then I found out about alleys too narrow for vehicles, and even more dripping with mystery than the usual garbage-can-and-stray-cats alley.
This one is light-filled and pleasant—especially during a rare lunch-out expedition (not counting our Easter picnic).
Saturday, 19 April 2014
I lived a day of contrasts and variation. I only took a few pictures. I see no iconic theme or themes to my day. I see no iconic moments. I have singled out two…fine photo’d instants. In the continuum.
Overall: a very, very fine day!
And the small stuff…love the tender, gentle yellow-green of the new growth.
Saturday, 12 April 2014
We walked over to and through the Dogwood Festival in Piedmont Park. We dodged the masses by taking the sidewalks we normally take, along which signs ordered us to give priority to festival golf-carts, while most people were clogging the ex-streets where the booths reigned.
All that time in the park, and all that hubbub…and I took zero photos. This is my fave from the en-route portion of our walk….
Saturday, 29 March 2014
We ate tonight at a second-story restaurant with this view across the Apalachicola River and the creeks and whatnot that feed into East Bay. The light was behind us, that is, behind the building, and our view was superbly lit.
Small geography reminder: Atlanta’s Chattahoochee drains into the Apalachicola.
Those bird-dots off to the right are coasting pelicans.
The morning began with heavy rain that tapered to light rain, both under grey skies. As we drove north, we could see a thin layer of blue above the horizon, and by the time we stopped for lunch (a detour into GA to visit Sweet Grass Dairy’s shoppe), it was full out bright sunshine!
Our weather fortune stayed reversed! Great day!
Tuesday, 25 March 2014
Our overnight setup. Still breezy at dusk, but we’ll be toasty.
Took the boardwalk trail at Okefenokee, and saw many types of critters. Not that many insects (thankfully!), but they were there. Watched a pair of orange-billed brown-feathered ibises (not sure what the “name” is) for quite a while. Watched a pair of raccoons come down the boardwalk toward us, then head off in the bush (interesting dismount from the boardwalk, using the edge detail as a “hand”hold). Also saw a singlet, and wet tracks of another. Didn’t expect raccoons! Also saw a blacksnake (not sure what kind) in the water; not poisonous. A leopard frog (big). Anole. Turtles (high humpy smooth shells; pretty big). Minnows (well, small fishies). White egrets and herons, several species.
We saw ‘gators on the way in, sunning. That reptile thing. (Okay, only two, but still: gators! dinosaurs—essentially!)
Driving, later in the day but still day and not dusk, we saw a black critter, not sure what, disappearing into the brush. Didn’t see head/face. Furry tail. Body size medium. Black. Closer to the ground than a dog, and fluffier tail. John said he thought it most like a small black long-tailed bear. I thought: not sure WHAT.
Fingers crossed; no skeeters or ticks. (Yet.) Fingers very crossed!
Friday, 31 January 2014
The Guru and I took a stroll in the last of the day’s sunlight (at least in our neighborhood), and found only a few bits of snow remaining in the sun. In the shade: more.
Although these may look like huge drifts perhaps on dense wheat stubble, it’s a manicured lawn composed of one of those heat-hardy southern grasses that turns brown to cheer you up in the winter….
Thus: show thickness is a mere centimeter or so.
And the audio track was mostly drip drip drip….
Saturday, 18 January 2014
This afternoon Mother Nature did her magic and cleared the sky for a bit. As dusk was arriving, the clouds came in, but we could still see the Olympics across the Sound.
This is approximately the same view as on Thursday.
Thursday, 16 January 2014
Loving the shades of grey. I found the overall composition more pearly than ashy. But maybe it’s more slate-grey than anything else.
Monday, 30 December 2013
Been playing, now and then, with the panorama and slo-mo (sic) video options on the iPhone 5s. Neither fit well in this column; still, here’s a sample panorama. Not earthshaking, but fun….
Friday, 27 December 2013
Strolling along the Chattahoochee in the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. Your tax dollars at work.
Day length increasing now, right?