Saturday, 27 March 2021
We left inside-the-perimeter to visit the Grey Sisters and their people, and enjoy a tasty home-made meal.
Outbound we saw beautiful pale purple dangling flower clusters of wisteria frequently in the roadside woods. Returning, we saw some dogwoods blooming near houses, but not yet in the woods.
The title is exactly as it was on a sign. No price. I can’t quite believe that the biscuits were so good people would stop no matter the price.
Friday, 26 March 2021
Last night we got rain and we got wind; here we didn’t get any tornadoes, happily. Pollen and redbud blossoms floated on the pickup bed’s pond…until I drained it.
This Acer palmatum is aggressively moving towards summer mode, just 5/6 days after spring began.
Also, by my observation, today is day one of what I seem to recall is the approximately three-day push-to-bloom of the azaleas…when they really open in force…. Bushes everywhere in the neighborhood were half open or, more commonly, covered in fat buds that will open…tomorrow?
Thursday, 25 March 2021
Kickball in the park. And I’ve seen kids kicking balls in the space that’s attached to the middle school that’s across the street behind the lovely blooming trees. And I’ve seen school buses on these streets. Normality is returning…a bit.
Another petal-carpet with petal-drifts.
As to the title, this is the over-and-over recommendation phrase from our local meteorologists, as we will have nasty winds and rain from about 1 am to 6 am…hopefully without the awful tornadic action that has already struck not far from here. I expect tossing and turning throughout….
Thursday, 4 March 2021
After five days of grey and overcast, we’re enjoying bright days, and today was the second of those. Joyous.
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.
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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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.
Tuesday, 23 February 2021
No flaw in today’s weather whatsoever.
Might not have been so happy if I had to pick crocus stigmas, such teeeeny little things!
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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Saturday, 20 February 2021
We skated through The Time of the Polar Vortex, because we had no polar and no vortex. We had some cold, yeah, but mild cold, not polar cold. Here’s camellia proof; the inner petals will be just fine.