Saturday, 8 February 2020
With the dawn…frost on the vehicles.
By midmorning…big fat flakes on the gazebo-moss. And then it became melty flakes, then just drips. North of here, enough accumulation to make the ground white, even the scraggly grass.
Stand by for a few days, and we’ll return to rainy winter. You just wait!
Thursday, 6 February 2020
We got some serious rain today, but other places not far away got far more, over five inches in some spots. Five! And more inches total coming tomorrow and next week.
Winter is the rainy season in these parts.
Winter sometimes SOMEtimes means white stuff here. Rumor is there might be a few flakes tomorrow morning after the cold rolls in…up in the mountains, not here, however.
Monday, 3 February 2020
I feel compelled to look up when I visit this sculpture. Sorry to say, I’ve never looked for the artist’s name and the name of the piece.
I just checked GooMaps, and it’s not there. Aha, cleverness…new angle of attack. Success! The BeltLine website indicates it’s Tim Frank’s “Angier Spring Monumental Work,” commissioned for this location and installed in 2017.
No Canada geese are nesting this year at this floodwater catchment pond. The turtles are flourishing, however (on sloping rock, and elsewhere in the sun and out of the water).
A couple had brought bread and were throwing chunks at a pair of mallards. I’m guessing the turtles will eat later, after they are thoroughly warmed. I did see bread bits floating elsewhere in the water, with schools of minnows chowing down in radial formation around each piece.
Arrrgh. Lousy exposure. Next time. Nice to have deep shade; temp today reached 76°F.
Saturday, 18 January 2020
Was this bloom turned down to avoid catching the rain-to-come? Was it sentient? 🤣😀😝
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
I saw the green coming on the weather map, but I believed the meteorologist who said the rain would arrive around 11am (or maybe that’s not what he said). So, I scooted out around 10am thinking I could get a good stretch of hoofing before turning around and getting back under the roof before….
I noticed within the space of about forty paces that the sky ahead of me turned dark. Noticeably, not just kinda darkened. Oops. I didn’t get pelted, but I got wet by the time I returned. (I survived; I didn’t melt.)
The bees were smarter than I; they abandoned the rosemary and sought cover elsewhere (where?). The other day in the sunshine the bush buzzed there were so many bees busy there….
Monday, 13 January 2020
The two-kay mixed use complex on the other side of the connector is anchored, in a sense, by the blue-white place (aka Ikea)…
…and the red-white place (aka Tarzhay). We walked between the two…
…and saw for the first time on foot a two-kay arc de triomphe…which, surprisingly, has a museum downstairs. [Why?] That we didn’t enter, leaving a mystery.
Got passed by a three-locomotive train when we were afoot. Wooooo-ooooo.
Confession: only shopped in Ikea; bought batteries that the Guru wanted and a plastic cover for use in the microwave. They don’t last forever, you know.
Further confession: it was a grey grey grey day, overcast and precipitating…but, somehow, okay even so.
Saturday, 11 January 2020
The first outing doesn’t count, blogwise. Errands.
The second outing: a walk. I dodged raindrops for most of it (truncated), but the precip caught me about 10 min before I got to the front door. A bit damp…
…but nothing like the rain that accompanied the front that came through just as we were leaving for our dinner reservation, moving at 60mph. Whew. So, we got seated, ordered a bottle of prosecco, and immersed ourselves in chatting and laughing. Great fun.
* Credit to JPB for the riff on Dry January.
Friday, 10 January 2020
Friday snuck up on me this week. Or, I was too distracted to grasp it had arrived. Along with our flowering quince, honoring my parents and a gift from D&F. This plant is in the Rosaceae family, so the thorns are appropriate.
I took this photo when I was leaving to begin my walk. The sun was tepid. I could see a broad greyness to the NNW. Over time, the grey seeped east, and about 10 minutes before I got home I felt a few drops. But, no follow-through/still dry. Expecting a serious storm tomorrow, early evening, however.
Sunday, 5 January 2020
Apologies for going on about the weather, but today’s highs and lows were about 20°F lower than yesterday’s. Didn’t have frost on the car window yesterday….
Cold snap may have played in this camellia flower drop.
Random artsy photo: close-up of rusty yardart.
Rotate ninety photo: nothing more needs to be said. [Shadow has a lumpiness because I had lifted my hoodie sweatshirt to around my neck; gives me superhero shoulders.]
Title refers to a general lack of intellectual astuteness evidenced lately on this-here blog, and hypothesizes about why.
Perhaps the warming weather trend will provide a boost? On the other hand, we already have more rain this month than the January average, and more is coming this week. Eek!
Thursday, 2 January 2020
Big Bud to Little Bud: “How you?”
Little Bud to Big Bud: “K. How you?”
🤣
Went for my walk earlier than usual, had a hunch the weather would get worse…so I ventured into sprinkles and Seattle-type mist…and accomplished my HR* goals. Can’t say I got my Vitamin D for the day, however.
🤣
* Heart rate.