Musings

I am convinced that the “correction” on my phone’s camera makes the strangeness of fog…diminish. This is my best capture from the fog-season we’ve been living in most mornings lately. Embrace reality.

Posted at 10:25 PM | 1 Comment »

Tiz the season.

My mother called these zipperskins. I don’t recall hearing this term elsewhere, yet I can’t quite believe it was her personal language quirk.

Posted at 9:16 PM | 1 Comment »

Heavy fog in the morning and this evening, and all day it was moist. Although the wait at our polling place for early voting on Friday was something like two-and-a-half hours, today the wait was perhaps ten minutes.

As of now MSNBC is giving the edge to Incumbent Reverend Warnock, but also simultaneously indicates the race is too close to call. I do so hope that edge holds. Fingers crossed.

Posted at 10:11 PM | 1 Comment »

Just watched RWarnock on Reidout. The interview was at a pre-Covid favorite hangout of ours, the Democratic stronghold Manuel’s Tavern*. Joy knows how to say it—like instruction manual. No kidding. Don’t know why, but that’s the way it is.

So, the berries in the left package were priced at a premium, yet I couldn’t tell much difference between the sizes of the berries. In truth, I don’t think the left packages was worth one-third more….

Election Day tomorrow. Hoping for truth there, too.

* Stronghold as in JFK, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and similar, along with uncounted state and local officials and candidates.

Posted at 8:05 PM | Comments Off on Truth

This is kinda me…a bit out of focus and awaiting the sun. 😃 😃 😃

Also, awaiting Tueday’s vote count.

Posted at 10:22 PM | Comments Off on The pause

Perhaps I shouldn’t use that title the weekend before an election run-off…to clarify, the surprise is that this tree (at the less-than-six-feet-tall stage at present) is in our back yard (aka garden in Brit Engl). I did not know we hosted a beech there. Yay; so classy! [The winter foliage of beeches is so distinctive. This species, Fagus grandifolia, is the only Fagus species in North America—pretty sure.]

Posted at 7:02 PM | Comments Off on Surprise

While you may be thinking that this accumulation of ginkgo leaves means the ginkgo leaf drop has happened, lemme tell you that there are plenty of (non-scientific estimation) leaves remaining attached to the tree above.

Posted at 7:44 PM | Comments Off on Perspective

Here’s another beach that has a prominent place in my memory…this one facing east near Punta Cormorant, Floreana Island, Galápagos.

Posted at 9:25 PM | Comments Off on Beginning of December

Sometime in the night, we woke up to realize that the power was out, I think because the smoke detector blipped. [The outage only lasted about two minutes, I was able to determine by looking at the stove clock much later.] I soon fell back asleep and sometime before I awakened and got up and headed for the coffee-maker, I had a dream that I remember little about except that I was standing on a sand beach next to Lake Superior. This beach is at the mouth of the Au Train River, last May. Look at that sky!

Posted at 7:01 PM | Comments Off on Last of November

Watching the high early-voting counts and hoping…that some of the inaction in Washington is blocked. Don’t understand how people re-elect people to represent them who so frequently act against their personal best wishes.

In other news, a conviction on seditious conspiracy for not-going-to-include-his-name on his 6Jan behavior. Three days of deliberation. Those jurors get extra points.

Posted at 7:28 PM | Comments Off on Views