Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Ants swarming like it’s a peony, no?
Voting day some states. Here early voting began on Monday, so our airwaves (if that still works) are jammed with Seriously Annoying candidate ads, and Even More Annoying ads contributed by outside organizations.
Monday, 2 May 2022
One year ago we were train-spotting in Missouri (among other things). What have I been up to? Mostly being a homebody.
Wednesday, 27 April 2022
I vanquished another privet today, or perhaps the joke’s on me, as it left several lateral roots behind that could spring up above the ground again very soon. The bed’s a mess, and needs more cleansing, but: progress. Neither of us has a plan for what to do with it. Very shady. Light-wise.
Tuesday, 26 April 2022
I had my way with a privet today. By “had my way,” I mean I uprooted it and sent it off to the compost. Took a half hour with a mattock—thump thump, wrench, strain. [This fading peony is much nicer.]
Sunday, 24 April 2022
We just started a new international television series. It’s called Pera Palas’ta Gece Yarısı, or Midnight at the Pera Palace. For enquiring minds: the Pera Palace is a real hotel that had its grand opening in 1895.
Turns out that just like Finnish and Swedish, we can’t understand Turkish merely by listening to it.
Friday, 22 April 2022
I got out early for my third day of Weed Attacking. Embarrassingly, I found this giant specimen, which has survived our awareness long enough to reach almost eight feet tall. Wish our basil had that much robusticity.
After a shower, we hit the road and headed south-southwest…where we could see Alabama from our perch. And spotted a great blue that I swear is on the Georgia side of the Chattahoochee.
On our return leg, we drove atop Pine Mountain…yes, there is a mountain south of Atlanta.
Monday, 18 April 2022
Proof I’m out of practice in taking computational photos…. Beyond being Out Of Focus, it’s busy and not particularly interesting. However, it’s probably slightly better than a cart of weeds and sticks, which I was contemplating using (and neglected to take).
Sunday, 17 April 2022
I decided today to propose a Green Ratio—an index of how spring-y or autumnal the season is. Today’s GR is high, but not yet 100. Or whatever fits the high end of the scale, or full summer green. Note that the shade of green is still springy, although the leaves are dense enough to make significant shade.
Saturday, 16 April 2022
About five hours of rain overnight, sometimes rather hard, brought down these petals, creating a localized carpet. I also found some branchlets of mistletoe (it’s brittle).
Fringetree in full bloom. The petals do hang down, but the rain has made them more vertical than normal.
Another floor is underway on the BeltLine apartment project. Also note that the tops of the high rises are obscured by a cloud layer.
Apologies for the simplistic reporting and wordage; not sure why I’m more lethargic than normal.
Friday, 15 April 2022
So all day yesterday I cycled between knowing it was Thursday and thinking it was Friday. Discombobulating.
Today, I knew it was Friday and didn’t cycle.
Still, I sneezed a big huge sneeze several times. Pollen. A different kind of destabiliz-ment.