Paying forward
Saturday, 6 March 2021
$1.9 trillion covid-relief package passed! [Sorry there isn’t more text; I have a water wall to solve….]
Musings
Vaccine truths
Friday, 5 March 2021
I finally heard the clarification that having enough vaccine for every adult in the USA is NOT THE SAME as every adult having RECEIVED a shot (or two).
Good that the professional sports stadium will be hosting a vaccine site capable of giving 6K shots per day. It will be open every day for eight weeks. Hope we will be eligible; it’s an easy 5-mile drive from here!
Someone’s little winter veggie bed is burgeoning in response to spring weather, and now going to seed.
Small things are big
Wednesday, 3 March 2021
I thought about light-and-shadow off and on today. Overnight rain droplets on this white camellia with oblique lighting.
And these lovely animal sulptures: goat, cow, and braying donkey.
Conchoidal fracture making radial reflections on this light-catcher that’s an interesting shade of blue.
Flowering of truth
Monday, 1 March 2021
I was quite happy to vote for Fani T. Willis for Fulton County District Attorney. As I recall, I had to vote for her two times: in the regular election, then in a runoff. As DA, she’s going after ThumpThump for interfering with Georgia’s election, and this effort is ramping up now that we’re in March, as the county is now seating a grand jury, and going before them is a crucial next step in the legal process.
Great walk-finds
Saturday, 27 February 2021
Raindrops from last night’s precip lasted through the day…in a few places.
Look near the crossed wires and you’ll see a small flock of sandhill cranes. These were much lower than the group I saw the other day. I suspect this group was looking for a place to stop overnight to rest and feed—central Atlanta is a poor choice for that…keep heading north, birds!
Evidence that film shoots are once again outside the studio….
And, yes, the family of the stinkhorns in the scientific classification system is Phallaceae. Hard to put one over on taxonomic specialists.
Brief return to winter rain
Friday, 26 February 2021
For several days, I heard that today would be rainy. I anticipated that I would find that a bit of a downer when the grey arrived. Turned out, yay!, didn’t bother me. I even walked in the mist ☔︎ that hung around into the afternoon. In shorts.
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Front & center fringe
Thursday, 25 February 2021
Yesterday—wait, no, the day before, I noticed the first early-blooming weeds in flower mode…and, yup, today I heard pollen count info on the morning news. So, pollen-count info should be added to yesterday’s list of evidence that the seasons are changing.
This is a hot-pink fringetree bloom…fringetrees are in the Olive family (Oleaceae), typically with white blooms.
Season’s changing
Wednesday, 24 February 2021
1. The days are noticeably longer—and the nights are shorter.
2. I practiced shadow-walking for the first time this year (sunshine avoidance—too hot!). This was rather tricky as nothing’s leafed out.
3. I heard sandhills overhead for over two minutes. They were very high, and I couldn’t see them, but I could hear their distinctive calls for long enough to suggest a large flock migrating.
Details of the times
Monday, 22 February 2021
Here’s the moon doing its daytime thing. Speaking of daytime, I can tell the days are longer than they were. Loving it.
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Seems tacky to note that with a half-million Americans dead who were alive a year ago, killed by the Covid, the vaccine distribution is ramping up, and this is a light…(no tunnel illustration, just a light…artsy is sometimes fartsy).
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Park views
Friday, 19 February 2021
Walked to the Big Park today, and found brilliant sunshine…
…and birds. Canadas (left), of course, and Muscovys (right, bathing). In the middle, an anhinga, I think. Didn’t have binocs.
Tried to take my fav-oh-rite trail: closed. Must be a maintenance problem (perhaps a washout?); can’t be a Covid limitation…. Discarded jacket probably is from volunteer out of frame to left removing invasive species (my guess).