Musings

My spidee sense says a time change looms, and this lovely evening light will be sliding back…and our dark mornings will be lighter…that’s the flip side…. Impossibly, I’d like more light at both ends of the day.

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Yes, they were this bright. Love the azaleas, and they bloom over and over in the Deep South…with enough nutrients and moisture.

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Am I wrong to guess that this homeowner, who has a pair of planters flanking the walkway leading from the sidewalk to the porch, and both have this crunchy beige “vegetation”…am I wrong 🤪 to think they’re specially planned Halloween decorations? 🤣

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Confession: this photo is from last week in the UP, a daisy-ish fleur in a mowed path, nestled in with a dusting of fallen leaves.

I thought it was dry up there, yet it’s dry dry dry here, too—no rain yet in this month in ATL, which is…WOW!…as it’s already the 23rd. OTOH, it’s great to see a flower even if the weather is especially arid and un-supporting of plants.

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Before holly berries get ripe, they are green. [Duh.] In the maturation process they turn from greenish to orange-tinted (as here), before finishing brilliant red.

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We saw (not heard) so many diverse views today. I have managed to pick two images; they are not representative. Look at this soupy fog in the valleys when we began our drive in the Appalachians.

I didn’t expect anything like this display at the state-line welcome center where we entered Tennessee. The message (perhaps): watch out for ghosts, dolls, and pumpkins!

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Glacial erratic (taller than The Guru). I think.

Architectural remnant. I think it was the entry to an otherwise destroyed building, slightly modified to have four irregular sides…somewhat like a mini-chapel.

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Sorry if you think this post is about music. The light is the opera, here…. Pre-sunrise, on the way to the point.

The sun’s coming!

Ah, there’s the rise!

Looking back. Note the orange cast on the foam by the tiny, new island.

This is mid-day, looking south from the grove.

The cottage is oddly keystoned…so, keystone kottage?

We don’t cross the bridge this time of day, and so miss this every time—almost sunset.

And, from the first rest area south of the bridge.

Do you forgive me the title?

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Sunglow and shorefoam.

The ridge patterns that the waves make on the bottom…two zones are at right angles…never noticed that before so close together, almost intermeshed…seems so unlikely.

Yesterday, we watched a busy pileated pit this stump in two places. This is the larger, deeper excavation. Fueling up for winter, surely….

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Nice sunset glow today.

Changing topics: my wrist device no longer counts flights of stairs with any degree of accuracy. It used to be a bit off; now it gives me two or three each day, sometimes four. A more accurate number would be two to three TIMES that many. …Not that it’s a metric I, eh-hem, set my watch by. 🤣

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