Saturday, 23 April 2022
On our wee jaunt yesterday, we found abundant evidence that the highway department’s routing specialists have gone for traffic circles in a big way in recent years. In our experience, they can showcase, um, interesting art. And varied detritus.
Friday, 22 April 2022
I got out early for my third day of Weed Attacking. Embarrassingly, I found this giant specimen, which has survived our awareness long enough to reach almost eight feet tall. Wish our basil had that much robusticity.
After a shower, we hit the road and headed south-southwest…where we could see Alabama from our perch. And spotted a great blue that I swear is on the Georgia side of the Chattahoochee.
On our return leg, we drove atop Pine Mountain…yes, there is a mountain south of Atlanta.
Thursday, 21 April 2022
I spent some time this afternoon finding tell settlements. It’s very rewarding. Many mounds like this: standing above the landscape, and possibly with archaeological trenching. Hard to miss.
Others were plenty tricky to find. Hah!
This peony: hard to miss. And a target for bees.
Wednesday, 20 April 2022
I just went out and took this. Perhaps 3/4 open.
And this was the other day, all tightly wrapped in on itself. In sunshine.
While the upper photo was taken before technical sunset, it’s no longer visible here, blocked by houses and trees. The city, you know.
Tuesday, 19 April 2022
Today’s new vocab: dunkelflaute. However, this is a pink dogwood. Most are white; I recall reading some years ago that the dogwoods are susceptible to a virus and the breeders haven’t come up with a resistant pink dogwood. It seems like that still may be true as there are fewer and fewer pink dogwoods in our neighborhood. And none are young trees. [I admit that’s a very local, spatially biased observation.]
Oh: dunkelflaute (German). It’s usually translated as dark doldrums, or meteorologically: anticyclonic gloom. It’s when renewable energy can’t be generated (e.g., overcast days for solar panels, or still days for wind turbines).
Monday, 18 April 2022
Proof I’m out of practice in taking computational photos…. Beyond being Out Of Focus, it’s busy and not particularly interesting. However, it’s probably slightly better than a cart of weeds and sticks, which I was contemplating using (and neglected to take).
Sunday, 17 April 2022
I decided today to propose a Green Ratio—an index of how spring-y or autumnal the season is. Today’s GR is high, but not yet 100. Or whatever fits the high end of the scale, or full summer green. Note that the shade of green is still springy, although the leaves are dense enough to make significant shade.
Saturday, 16 April 2022
About five hours of rain overnight, sometimes rather hard, brought down these petals, creating a localized carpet. I also found some branchlets of mistletoe (it’s brittle).
Fringetree in full bloom. The petals do hang down, but the rain has made them more vertical than normal.
Another floor is underway on the BeltLine apartment project. Also note that the tops of the high rises are obscured by a cloud layer.
Apologies for the simplistic reporting and wordage; not sure why I’m more lethargic than normal.
Friday, 15 April 2022
So all day yesterday I cycled between knowing it was Thursday and thinking it was Friday. Discombobulating.
Today, I knew it was Friday and didn’t cycle.
Still, I sneezed a big huge sneeze several times. Pollen. A different kind of destabiliz-ment.
Thursday, 14 April 2022
This partly hidden is a flower spike. Perhaps of a yucca…in any case, a pointy leaved plant.
This “hidden” is trickier to spot. Look for four verticle temporary electric connections…for a commercial building project.
We spotted this during a blue-tinted moment on our quick trip to a mall. We’ve gone to a mall (only!) twice since the Descent of Covid, and both times have been Apple missions. Recent b-day dude Mr. Ohio now has a new, fancy, powerful laptop, with a gorgeous screen and four (!!!!) terabytes of storage. Movies, music, video clips? The sky’s the limit!