LCM report: full
Sunday, 27 December 2009
Slow Sunday. Micronews: Lake Clara Meer is overfilled, and that’s without a breeze to push the water over the edge.
Musings
Skyline
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Get it?
Anyway, another overcast afternoon, with pretty high water levels in Lake Clara Meer (it’s now hard to believe we had that drought), but nice for a walk even so.
This was the view as we strolled the SE corner of the park, having entered via an off-path route, since the Park Tavern* gate was closed—lots of private events, based on the notices up by the parking lot.
* RHB played golf here when the Tavern building was a club house, when he was in Georgia courtesy of Uncle Sam. Much of the area where we walk was fairways or on the edge of where they were. You still can see the flattop bumps where some of the greens and tees were.
Civic participation
Monday, 14 December 2009
View of South Fork Peachtree Creek through the woods, Morningside Nature Preserve, just after the dedication this morning.
It was pretty low-key participation, but JCB and I attended the dedication of Atlanta’s newest park, the Morningside Nature Preserve.
For being pretty darned foggy, the weather was reasonably cooperative—it wasn’t raining.
Most of the people there seemed to have participated in the making of the Preserve. There were also a few people who lived nearby.
Then: us.
John maintains that a likely journalist showed up late, but I didn’t notice.
Advance head’s-up: There’ll be a Weekly Ponder on Friday on thesga.org about this—but not until 5 am Eastern on the 18th….
Prepare to duck and cover
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Rain today, but not so much when I was out earlier compared to what we’re getting now—and it’s supposed to escalate overnight. There’s a line of rainfall over in ‘bama that might deliver 1/2 inch all by itself when it gets here.
So, when I was out for my walk I came up with at least three semi-clever blog entries, but, can I remember them now?
I’ll just observe that I need to practice with the self-portrait-mode on the camera…. And that friends to the north and northwest (and far northwest, too?; haven’t checked the weather way out there…) are getting less clement weather than we are….
UPDATE: Now I remember (one idea, anyway). “Nice weather for ducks,” my dad would have summarized today if he had been walking with me in the park instead of watching snowflakes swirl in southern MI. Well, I did see ducks, but I found it quite interesting that they were standing next to the lake, avoiding being in the water (most of them anyway).
Decoding mysteries
Thursday, 3 December 2009
Yesterday was rain; today was overcast. Just short of gloomy, though.
Not sure about this sign, but viewing it above the Midtown skyline upgrades its mystery, I think.
Update on the ClickToFlash: read thishere and beware; it’s more complicated than I thought the other day….
Rain, rain, more rain
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
Rainy day, all day. Mostly moderate or light, but not quite always.
Lake Lanier’s been at “full” pool level or above for the last six weeks—hard to believe the drought we had prior to that!
And, our backyard azalea is in bloom (again), to boot!
Weird, odd, and all that!
Looking the other way
Monday, 30 November 2009
Not sure what Paul Krugman is thinking…must be an inside joke. And I’m not Nobel economist enough to “get it.”
Overcast and spitty most of the day, but I think the theme out the window is leaves.
UPDATE: Apologies for using the same photo again; look, I even cropped it nearly identically!.
Red sky at morning*
Saturday, 28 November 2009
Even at dawn, we could tell today would be relatively cloudless, or actually cloudless, as it turned out.
Loverly.
Especially along the Huron River.
* Check here for the full rhyme….
Dusted
Friday, 27 November 2009
And not the housekeeping sort, either.
Despite the cold and white-stuff, I’m sure the Explorer is still glad (please pardon the anthropomorphization) it didn’t become an official Clunker.
Suits to a “T”
Friday, 20 November 2009
Here it is coming on late November, and I found a blooming camellia, not just with an odd bloom, but with flowers and buds all over.
You got the title, right? The best-known member of the Camellia family is Camellia sinensis, that is, the tea camellia. In addition, I’m sure glad to see blooms outdoors this time of year….