I’m foine
Sunday, 30 August 2020
Metaphor for my day? Mossy concrete and a low wall. Invasive ferns. Dangling ivy. Accumulating organic detritus. Other unidentifiable bits of life in a shady urban spot.
In a very good way.
Musings
Moments
Friday, 28 August 2020
I typed in a name for this photo…I thought I was creating “skyline,” but what I made was “shyline,” which is a lovely error. Overcast equals shy? Still pondering….
Sigh. Mmmmm. Cat loveliness.
Perspectives
Thursday, 27 August 2020
I’ve been eyeing this driveway and steps combo for years, watching the concrete degrade and thinking somehow there’s a photo here, but not finding a way to capture it. This comes close.
This is easier to grasp: leaves (almost) the size of a manhole cover! Ehem, sewer access lid…whatever.
Tales of details
Saturday, 22 August 2020
This tale revolves around the Ridler brand…and silvery shininess.
This tale is centered on moving back in to your house after it’s been rehabbed to become a different house, but only partly different.
I haven’t found the tales yet, and I haven’t composed them either. You?
Observation “science”
Friday, 21 August 2020
I think I’ve done this before in this “space”: my hypothesized taxonomy, this time for fungi.
The first would be “wet” fungi, and this would be “dry” fungi. Although it looks like there are a few “wet” fungi encroaching on the decorative, “dry” fungi.
Okay, hypothesis is muddy, and therefore: nope.
Yay!
Thursday, 20 August 2020
I think of Cincinnati as the place where we have to slow down…either on I-75 or by taking an evasive route because the traffic flow on the Interstate is hosed. That is: greater and metro Cincinnati. This time problems were downhill into town and across the I-75 bridge over the Ohio, so we checked out some of the old timey infrastructure along our alternate route. We had a good time on the grey roads!
Back on the Interstate zoom zoom, we encountered this…in Tennessee?. Some miles along, we found cattle transporters with moo-capable cattle, yet this specimen was the most unusual.
We arrived in ATL under changeable skies. Spotty rain inbound…and of course rain during part of the unloading. Of course. We are home and all is well. Yay!
Enriched, invigorated, fortified (not in that order)
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Fortified: by a fort.
Invigorated: by socially distant socializing with a long-time friend over cocktails.
Enriched: by a wide expanse of beauty.
Final day moments
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
How many times have I walked past this arrangement on the neighbors’ deck (where we have distance-socialized all summer), and only today I noticed it? My excuse: the light was perfect right then. Truth: I wasn’t paying attention to my surroundings.
Look at how this flower cluster captured the now-dry grass-tops. Flowers are maybe two feet above the ground surface. Musta happened when they were both green and growing.
Disused buildings
Thursday, 13 August 2020
Not far from here is a house that has an incorporated train car. No one even visits the house anymore (don’t know the back story, but I’m guessing aging owner(s), plus this year’s special complication: Covid19), although someone local does mow the lawn. Anyway: train car house.
This is in the corner of a field that has been fenced off from the rest of the field with a small orchard. I’m guessing old chicken house, but maybe it was geese or turkeys. In any case, the building and the fruit trees seem no longer maintained/used.
Everyday until late afternoon
Tuesday, 11 August 2020
First ground-flock of Canada geese I’ve spotted…preparing to fly south?
My hypothesis: the geese find the giant hay bales nurturing.
A fine shot of Queen Anne’s lace aka wild carrot, an invasive species from Europe and southwest Asia, to honor Joe’s VP pick: Kamala Devi Harris (October baby!, b. 1964), US Senator and former AG of CA.
Also in the news: Big Ten, Pac 12, more cancel fall football (that is: American football).