Say no more
Monday, 30 March 2020
Proof of pollen and scattered raindrops. We should have real rain tomorrow.
Dogwood splendor.
Garden beauty.
Beemer update: still no wheels/tires…now with cover.
Evidence of tree-spring.
Musings
Looking at details
Thursday, 5 March 2020
Established magnolia trees send up a profusion of suckers under the shelter of their leaves and branches. Dunno what the red machine is; lost leaf blower?
Rumor has it the rain will be gone tomorrow! Yay!
Before the sun
Tuesday, 3 March 2020
I was antsy and left the house shortly after the rain stopped; that’s why it was still flowing in the gutters.
The rain brought down a good crop of camellias under this bush/tree.
Loving a new sighting of purple crocuses; lovely color.
SEA weather in ATL
Monday, 24 February 2020
Wet wet and more rain. In January we got almost twice as much rainfall as the historic average. I’m guessing similar excess in February, but can’t find this month’s data…. Puddles reformed and drained several times today.
I’m still collecting the water when I wait for the hot water to get to the shower head, every time. I started this when we had a serious drought, was it fifteen years ago? No drought now!
Beyond humid
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
This week’s version of the rainy season is more rainy than season.
I was back home re-hydrating when I saw a glow outside that soon became full blown sunshine. It didn’t last, but I missed my chance at high-quality vitamin D today.
I was lucky that I found flowers, however. Yay!
Wintery mix
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!
Pluvial pulses
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.
Chatty today
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.
Working the odds
Saturday, 18 January 2020
Was this bloom turned down to avoid catching the rain-to-come? Was it sentient? 🤣😀😝
Green became gray
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….