No longer fully green
Monday, 27 November 2017
Here’s a variant of how leaves change from summer green to autumn…whatever. Polka dots!
Musings
Typical
Monday, 20 November 2017
We did have a reasonably clear view of the mountains—for about fifteen minutes! Then they resumed being socked in, and we’ve had rain, spitty moisture, and variations in between.
And traffic (if we venture out!). Mega-traffic.
However, we are Midwesterners (in origin), and we are tough, and we are fine!
Pining*
Saturday, 28 October 2017
Yesterday we thought we’d do another excursion, maybe I’d get another 1K-step day. But, no. Autumn moisture descended. We are happy with the cool, yet wished for clear-overcast, or even partly cloudy conditions.
* This meaning of pine derives from a word meaning pain. [Tweak imaginary mustache, and murmur “interesting.”]
Sky-light
Sunday, 22 October 2017
We have been detouring around the Cut River bridge off and on for years. This is a US highway, and the bridge was fine for decades. I don’t know why it has become an expensive problem necessitating a repeated detour—whatever fixing the hwy dept has had done, they haven’t rebuilt it (or it still looks like it did when I was ten, I swear).
After the Big Bridge (it wasn’t as ominous-dark as it looks), we had enough spitty rain that the windshield crud I shot “through” above finally got cleaned off. Then we were out of the raininess, and back into cloudiness.
The sky got lighter and kinda pretty. Farther south, we saw the silver-sliver moon over Jackson. By the Ohio line, it was briefly golden, then disappeared, covered by cloud-cover.
Watching
Saturday, 7 October 2017
Yeah, this is an over-backlit photo, but it’s Good Hope General…not hospital but store. I thought the name would be a good omen when I picked it for us for this night…the rain from outer bands of TS/H Nate are supposed to be here before midnight….
Thanks, Sweetie!
Dreaming
Wednesday, 13 September 2017
January 2017 snow, in ATL.
Thinking for a moment about snow today, one of those unpredictable mental wanders…. Our temps did climb out of the “high in the 60s” of the last few days to creep into the 70s. This is a slower than predicted pace toward the “normal” 80s we may well see tomorrow.
No snow, however.
Seasoned
Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Maple tree from the archives….
Yesterday’s cool weather continued today…high only in the mid-60s…tomorrow, too, I think. Then, back to the normal 80s. The cool temps have me thinking of autumn.
So, what season is it? Hmmm. No longer Irma season….
Do not ask me about today’s reveal of the dingle arm. Hint: it’s an X thing.
TS Irma fading
Monday, 11 September 2017
This morning it was rather light out, but still very overcast. Nice azalea blooms, no?
Then, about noon the winds kicked up and about 3pm our power went out…it was kinda dark and the Guru rounded up candles so we could read dead-tree books.
I’m wrapped in a blanket in both photos because the high today was about 2am, 63°F according to the report I heard, and I’m wearing leetle shorts because foot. So, brr.
Power back on about 9:35pm, earlier than I’d let myself hope. Summary: sigh of relief.
Oh, my
Thursday, 7 September 2017
The latest Hurricane Irma path predictions indicate that we’ll get up to 60mph winds here HERE, and that it’ll begin arriving sometime Sunday. While most (all? but panhandle?) of Florida will be covered up but the spinning bands of high winds, so my guess is that those Hollywood-types doing the Harvey/TX fundraising evening will be doing a second event, or making the Harvey one a combo with Irma….
The big Speedway south of ATL has opened to FL’s evacuees to set up their campers and hunker down through the coming storm in their camper parking area. [Tax write-off? Still generous.]
Pier peering
Wednesday, 6 September 2017
Yesterday I was thinking about the Gulf Coast of Florida…today, it’s the Atlantic Coast, a pier at Jacksonville Beach last January. Pretty placid then…Irma’s gonna be stirring things up in this area by Saturday…time to prepare! Traffic is solid coming out of the Keys already….