Musings

This afternoon the temp dropped something like 30°F during daylight…so unusual. A front and rain kicked off the descent. BTW, the temp is still dropping. Nevertheless, I’m guessing these daffies are still nodding (happily?) in the dark and cold.

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Frost can be so pretty, if you’re warm and the sun is out. If if if.

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I got out this morning as rain was predicted for after noon. It actually rolled in after three or so. Still, it was already grey and overcast.

As a bonus (and to be uplifting), here’s a photo from the other day, when the sky was clear and blue, with a jet zooming by.

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My walking philosophy today was wind-avoidance, so I stuck to hollows and behind houses. [This is a contrast to the vitamin D and sunshine routes of the recent past.] Not the prettiest, but I did find these.

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Lots of rain-minutes today, although I could have found a few less-wet moments to make a wee walk. But I didn’t, so this fern-foto is from last week. Sometimes a day will have more pauses and recycling than forging forward.

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I got lucky, and had a chance at vitamin D for about five minutes, perhaps less. 😂

I thought this was darned funny: I submitted this photo to the iNaturalist app, wondering if it could recognize what I’m pretty sure are desiccated beech leaves. A scientific experiment, ya know. It offered a half-dozen insect genus’. Insects. 😂

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I found it murky and gloomy all day, yet somehow we enjoyed a rather vibrant afterglow this evening an hour-and-a-half after official sunset.

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The last three days (and nights) were like this, cold as ice. Normal temps today (more or less).

And this is what happened. Poor camellia.

Upside: on my walk, I actually created vitamin D, as my face was not entirely covered and shaded, plus my hands weren’t in gloves. Yay for health.

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With bright sunshine and the right garment-age, I stayed warm despite the brrrrrr wind chill. This lawn-weed is curled up in protest—and in deep shade, poor thing.

Posted at 10:15 PM | Comments Off on Weather remains THE topic

This was the dusk/sunset sky. Now the moonlight is streaming in the skylight. This sets up the “clear and cold” we’ve been told to expect…arrgh, lows in the teens the next THREE nights…unseasonably cold. Brrr. Yeah, NOT Atlanta weather.

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