Monday, 24 August 2020
Is this moldy fungi? I don’t remember seeing this combo before….
Okay, portrait mode here…HAD to do it as the flower was standing away from vegetation/visual distractions, all by its lonesome: perfect for the stage-light option.
Sunday, 23 August 2020
Last night, we had more rain, or more rain at once, than I noticed zzzzzz. Look at the line of detritus the water left behind. Not a wrack line, and neither flotsam nor jetsam. Just organic material without an ocean or tide.
BTW, that’s plastic not grass beneath the…Stuff.
Saturday, 22 August 2020
This tale revolves around the Ridler brand…and silvery shininess.
This tale is centered on moving back in to your house after it’s been rehabbed to become a different house, but only partly different.
I haven’t found the tales yet, and I haven’t composed them either. You?
Friday, 21 August 2020
I think I’ve done this before in this “space”: my hypothesized taxonomy, this time for fungi.
The first would be “wet” fungi, and this would be “dry” fungi. Although it looks like there are a few “wet” fungi encroaching on the decorative, “dry” fungi.
Okay, hypothesis is muddy, and therefore: nope.
Thursday, 20 August 2020
I think of Cincinnati as the place where we have to slow down…either on I-75 or by taking an evasive route because the traffic flow on the Interstate is hosed. That is: greater and metro Cincinnati. This time problems were downhill into town and across the I-75 bridge over the Ohio, so we checked out some of the old timey infrastructure along our alternate route. We had a good time on the grey roads!
Back on the Interstate zoom zoom, we encountered this…in Tennessee?. Some miles along, we found cattle transporters with moo-capable cattle, yet this specimen was the most unusual.
We arrived in ATL under changeable skies. Spotty rain inbound…and of course rain during part of the unloading. Of course. We are home and all is well. Yay!
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Fortified: by a fort.
Invigorated: by socially distant socializing with a long-time friend over cocktails.
Enriched: by a wide expanse of beauty.
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
How many times have I walked past this arrangement on the neighbors’ deck (where we have distance-socialized all summer), and only today I noticed it? My excuse: the light was perfect right then. Truth: I wasn’t paying attention to my surroundings.
Look at how this flower cluster captured the now-dry grass-tops. Flowers are maybe two feet above the ground surface. Musta happened when they were both green and growing.
Monday, 17 August 2020
First sweet pea pods I’ve seen in 2020….
Apples coming down, and smelling like yellow jacket heaven. Or cider, depending on your point of view.
Sunday, 16 August 2020
We felt the need for an outing today—a gen-u-wine Sunday drive. We stopped first at these charcoal kilns (at least, they’re for charcoal if I remember correctly). The smelting facilities were up on Lake Superior, but they established industrial-sized charcoal-making stations at some distance—this one is just a few miles north of Lake Michigan. And on private land, so I looked from the road.
And the Guru looked from above. The overhead drone shot shows the foundations of buildings that surrounded the kilns, and makes the complex look tiny rather than imposing. The arches in the shot above are probably 10 feet across.
Since we were close to Lake Michigan, we went down to Seul Choix lighthouse, although we didn’t go in. I wonder what the lighthouse staff would have thought if you could go back in time and show them GPS navigation….
And finally: Lake Michigan. This view is to the ENE, which is tricky on the north shore.
Saturday, 15 August 2020
I was outside doing an outdoor chore (rhyme!), and noticed this grey cloud to the north-northwest. Sure enough, ten minutes later it was over us. Ten minutes after that, it had moved on to the east.
And ten minutes more, we had some sprinkles (not enough to dampen the ringfort, but, hey, rain is rain).