Sunday, 12 September 2010
Bright sunshine left us little choice; we packed snacks and headed up to Lake Superior, which we found glittering in the sun with glorious small waves providing the best white noise that I’ve ever found.
We visited a stretch of beach I haven’t been to in years, at the mouth of Sable Creek. Like most of these north-flowing creeks, it’s a lovely light brown, tinted by the cedars growing along its path.
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Night-day and day-night changes can yield tremendously compelling skies. I was surprised the camera pulled out the flag colors in the low light.
For a non sequitur: today was vegetable day. Tomatoes, green beans, red and green sweet peppers (all from the Botanist’s garden). Not a tremendous variety, but, ooooh, some tasty eating!
Monday, 30 August 2010
Even on the interstate, you can find spots with lovely vistas. And then you notice the overhead powerlines.
Makes you lust for CAR*.
Content-Aware Retouching.
Saturday, 28 August 2010
My mind keeps drifting north, so a boreal forest image from this day three years ago….
Monday, 31 May 2010
Despite overnight rains, the Mowing Man “civilized” our immediate landscape, and we pushed forward on the chore front.
We made a dinner outing to celebrate with friends, and could see the sunset from a different angle across the lake….
What a great way to close out the month!
Saturday, 22 May 2010
Late mid-morning, the Guru said (something to the effect of), “Wanna walk over to the Bot Garden?”
I was tickled! Since we’ve been there last, they’ve opened the canopy walk, which is just that, a sidewalk in the air (forthcoming pictures, I expect). Another revamped part of the garden features this new cascade. Love the stop motion from the fancy-cam! Hard to believe that I’m standing a mere two hundred feet from Piedmont Avenue.
The Google Earth satellite picture is current enough to show this new architectural wonder! (Although without water.) And you can see the canopy walk arcing through the trees—it’s the gray question mark shape.
We stopped for a late lunch on the way home, and got over eight miles, to use the Marquis’s phrasing.
I have two enticing pictures from today’s excursion that I think are good candidates for my home page. I picked the one that you have to study to be sure of the scale.
Saturday, 20 February 2010
Earlier today we discussed whether the neighborhood squirrel count had decreased lately. Data from our library walk suggests…about the same.
Friday, 12 February 2010
By mid-afternoon, we could see the weather change, and the big fluffy flakes began to fall. The ground stayed warm enough that we made it to the Big Eighty-Four celebration, up in Buckhead. And home again, after. We played taxi, glad to have our 4×4, and especially glad that most people avoided driving.
* This is a peach tree, BTW….
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
I forgot to mention that when we were out on Sapelo Island over the weekend, we saw an orange tree. Isn’t the Spanish moss artistic?
If you really feel like reading, this is where I was on Saturday (Ashantilly Plantation, north of Darien) and Sunday (Sapelo Island, east of Darien).
Friday, 5 February 2010
Yeah, this was a rainy day. Meteorologists say this storm is headed north, and will dump the white stuff in the northeast. Here, though, it’s coming down in buckets.
And, yes, those are live oaks (Quercus virginiana) festooned with Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides).
No native Spanish moss decorations in Atlanta, so you know we drove to the coast. In said storm. We saw the front three times. This photo is from the last time, when we were on the driving tour at Harris Neck. In spite of the waves of fierce precip, we saw a flock of turkeys, and, later, after dark, a small herd of deer (we were going slowly, so no worries about a deer-Prius accident).