Musings

We had a bit of a wander-errand at mid-day, a spotty-rainy very overcast mid-day. Usually errands are a there/back event, without additional loops. Not today. Loops to cheer us with a sense of adventure? At one dead-end, we found this tree, leafless and with a blacktop skirt that is greatly reducing moisture and air to its roots, poor tree.

Leaves have come down by the thousand in our neighborhood, too. This is about two days worth(!!), with most of them arriving by yesterday. Too wet to shuffle them off the sidewalk….

Okay, some cheer! Our neighborhood firehouse has decorations! I wonder if the lights on the fireplug are to help train boy-dogs?

Posted at 7:43 PM | 1 Comment »

Midafternoon I got a text. From spouse. Who was getting something from the car out front and…wha? Why a text, I thought, as I checked the words. “Sandhill cranes!”, I read. And headed for the door to listen. Yup. And I looked up. A big crowd/group/bunch of them wheeling and circling. So so special.

Okay, more landbound…and oak-leaf hydrangea in full fall crimson.

Posted at 6:39 PM | Comments Off on Such fine light

Proof we got serious cold (for the Deep South) last night. Poor camellia. NB: no black ice in this neighborhood….

Chairs waiting for kings? None arrived when I was there….

Late-day light was stunning.

Posted at 6:41 PM | Comments Off on One three one

When it became clear that the winter weather in northeast Georgia had a wet, white zone where the day’s rising temperature meant there was snow but not icy roads…especially if you picked a gravel road. So, we headed toward a pocket like that. Here’s the highest elevation we got to—or near here. We drove in a cloud!

We got out and walked in the icy snow-crystals, while the high branches dripped ice-melt on us. I am intrigued by the linear fracture lines in the twig-wrap ice.

Alternate title: Celebration of our 29th anniversary

Posted at 7:35 PM | 1 Comment »

My, it was frosty this morning when I made a predawn milk run. Usually, we’re on top of the milk-for-coffee thing….

Tried to get a shot without the branch in front of the fading redbud leaf; turns out, I rather enjoy it there, intruding and out-of-focus.

On errands much later, way beyond the perimeter, we had plenty of time to watch the sunset from a traffic jam. Love the ’burbs.

Posted at 7:25 PM | Comments Off on Winter approaches

Rain and wetness continued; meteorologists tell us to prepare for below-freezing temps overnight—the coldest since last January. Sounds like the potential for icy patches is high for rush hour tomorrow morning. I’ll stay in where it’s warm and dry!

Note that I’m not complaining about the rainy overcast days we’ve been having; people near the fires and in areas hit by hurricanes/tropical storms have it far worse.

Posted at 6:26 PM | Comments Off on I am not a rock

Ghost pumpkins? Mummy pumpkins? On the other hand, maybe this design evokes a pop-culch meme I don’t know.

Red, red, red gerberas. With raindrops.

One more color!…because even with winter coming on, some plants remain green green green.

I especially like the pecan eyeballs on the right pumpkin. Aren’t pumpkins interesting when their essential orange-ness is removed?

Posted at 7:30 PM | Comments Off on Color trio

We were on the move again today, and finally got out of the weather system we were in, and into sunshine! Brilliant sunshine! And colorful leaves.

It wasn’t all sunshine, and this was during one of the cloudy stretches. We saw many semis, and what seemed to us to be lots of oversize/wide loads. This load was a bi-lobed molded swimming pool; this is the end view.

Was it actually Wide Load Day, and we thought it was only Election Day?

I’m proud of everyone who voted in today’s election! Truly.

Posted at 5:45 PM | 1 Comment »

On my way to capture this golden sunrise…

…I saw ice on top of the water barrel.

Not too much later, the clouds rolled in and the sun became a bright spot behind the grey-blue, and late in the afternoon, which would have been a different time yesterday, the rain blew in.

So, time to mobilize. But, let’s round up odds and end first, and finish the closing activities tomorrow.

Posted at 6:50 PM | Comments Off on Plans in motion, beginning

Different grass grows in the well-watered swale, compared to the rest of the field.

Even smaller beings than these shelf fungi and the green, green moss are in the process of breaking down this stump. Dead-wood is becoming high-nutrient organic matter* in the soil.

Today’s lake view photo. Light off-shore breeze means quiet waters.

* “Organic matter” was a favorite phrase of the Botanist.

Posted at 9:02 PM | Comments Off on Another tour of The Place