Musings

I thought I might write about This Thing. But it seemed Way Too serious, so I considered This Other Thing.

Same problem.

So, here’s some color instead. It seems very upbeat and positive.

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In general, humans tend to pattern recognition.

Here’re a pair of architectural detail patterns, the kind that aren’t typically included in a book of architectural details. I especially like the flanking solar lights.

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Still glorying in lily season. Particularly enjoying the deep red orange hues. Other years I’ve loved the pale yellows more. Why the change?

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I watched and heard a spate of tree removal and trimming early in the spring, and there’s another round underway this week. That hollow, rotten core means this tree was a goner if it hadn’t been removed.

I saw the title on a t-shirt back in 2019…had to use it myself. Or am I repeating myself? Oh, well, it’s a keeper line.

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Last night we became temporary keepers of a fern forest and assorted house plants. Fingers crossed that they thrive for the next two weeks and the rodents don’t…dig them up.

Today I continued my week of accidentally triggering my phone to act one way or another on my behalf. Got an arty shot of it!

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I walked later than I would have preferred (heat, humidity), but that’s the way it goes sometimes. Because it was later, I found shadows, which is to say: I found more sunshine along my route. With this shot, however, I think in terms of shadows. What does this indicate about my personality or world-perspective? Unk.

And I did find some gorgeous flower posing, thank you Mr. Sun.

I assumed, given the amount of spring tree trimming and cutting, that our neighborhood had been cropped into great shape until, what?, perhaps this fall. But, no. I encountered at least three different tree-reduction crews today. And I assume that was a small sample of those roaming Our Fair City.

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How many insects? I get five. Trumpet 😏 your count!

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We had a great evening celebrating our three Atlanta family June birthdays. We were tasked with bringing the mint chip ice cream, which the Guru selected. Only the fact that he chose Tillamook, and it is not green caused extensive discussion. Seems like purists would be fine with white mint choc chip ice cream.

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I know it’s obvious that a walk in an urban neighborhood is a different experience than a walk in a rural place.

I’m pretty sure this is evidence of a movie/TV shoot being broken down. Takes many, many cables for the many lights and cameras. I saw at six guys doing the breakdown, making these careful coils of cables. Also, about seven houses facing this park had bunting and lawn decorations, plus “homemade” signs about never forgetting 9/11. I’ve never seen such decorations in real life.

And a pretty. With a typical surprise insect.

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At the tail end of our two-day car adventure (after well over 6k miles of travel) we got to endure several traffic slowdowns coming into our hometown (three stretches, and an estimated 30 minutes increase to travel time, so not too bad—except we were tired and ready to be home). It’s rare that we get stuck in rush hour traffic (RHT)…it was during the rush hour, but it was coming INTO town, so it’s a slightly different flavor of RHT than typically occurs.

Pretty sure this is ragweed. No pollen yet, so no sneezing.

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