Musings

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.]

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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This partly hidden is a flower spike. Perhaps of a yucca…in any case, a pointy leaved plant.

This “hidden” is trickier to spot. Look for four verticle temporary electric connections…for a commercial building project.

We spotted this during a blue-tinted moment on our quick trip to a mall. We’ve gone to a mall (only!) twice since the Descent of Covid, and both times have been Apple missions. Recent b-day dude Mr. Ohio now has a new, fancy, powerful laptop, with a gorgeous screen and four (!!!!) terabytes of storage. Movies, music, video clips? The sky’s the limit!

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I propose marking the progression of spring in increments of when the blooms of a particular species open. Wait: too complicated, too location specific, and too prone to user error [as in: too many people can’t recognize the various flowers].

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Repeated patterns can be mesmerizing. Especially if blue or purple colors are involved IMHO.

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