Musings

Quite a while back, early in the Covid lockdown, I hypothesized that certain vehicles had not been moved for a very long time, based on the sediment deposits beneath them and other clues. [Those were the early days of working-from-home and grocery deliveries and other activities that allowed people to stay home and still survive.]

This car, however, seems like it has been not-moved for far longer than just since Covid. What a fine microenvironment for mildew and mold! (Ick.)

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It was rainy-wet all day, yet we managed to find a window without much drippiness, just mistiness. Which is manageable.

But we were not alone.

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This is an oversized splat. No robin did this. I found it this morning early-ish.

Add this data point. In the dark of the night recently we’ve heard a hootie owl holding forth, and the sound seems like it’s just above our bedroom.

To recap, the splat fits with noisy hootie owl, and the walkway location fits with being above our sleeping heads.

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Dramatic sculpture. Simple concept. Well executed. A curved steel sheet with a cutout-outline, bent at a slightly different angle. Harder to describe than to contemplate.

Sculptor: Xavier Medina Campeny (b. 1943). Title: Homenaje a Martin Luther King. The sculptor is Spanish, from Barcelona. The piece was a gift from the 1992 Summer Olympics host city (yes, Barcelona) to Atlanta, the host of the next Summer Olympics, in 1996. [If Wikipeeee is correct.]

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I managed to forget that this honeysuckle shrub-bush can bloom this time of the year. As it is this year. My worry: are there bees around? High in the 50s today, 60s the next three days (perhaps soon for the bees), then the 40s (or possibly not).

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This dawn light lasted less than a minute at maximum color. And I was there. Ephemeral.

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Here’s a photo of Vesuvius from Pompeii from our visit there in May 2011. For no apparent reason. Except maybe beauty?

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Scariest tree around (because it’s very large and looms over half our home), looking gorgeous in the late-day sun.

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Bonus from our foray outside the perimeter: a stunning sunset.

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From this house we don’t have a good view of the low-light parts of the day (faves for me), but this morning I caught a nice view of the light-graduation-transition (cropped out of this shot), ornamented by a waning crescent moon.

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