Musings

Problem solving

What is the statement of the day based on this image, I was thinking a few minutes ago. Hmm.

A bee crawls through a milkweed quite without effort? Too simplistic.

Orange and green are my new favorite color pairing? Yeesh, who would believe that.

Garden life is captivating? I’ll take that.

Ah, memories

I feel like Atlanta has slammed into summer, with robust heat and humidity mantling the city and slowing me down. This photo reminds me of the cool of the beach at Provincetown, on Cape Cod, two weeks ago.

Little big

This critter got trapped inside our house. I’m thinking it’s some kinda green lacewing. And, yeah, this shot’s outta focus.

Saturday excitement

Our neighborhood was a mecca today; it hosted Porchfest (music), with plenty of amps in use. This meant cars cruising for at least a three-mile radius looking for parking places in already choked streets–with the center of festing about two blocks from us.

We had to do an errand, so we got to “enjoy” all this congestion (cough cough). The 2.3 miles each way took almost an hour on a hot, muggy afternoon. Glad we had AC!

Lichen imagination

Ageless. That’s my perception, but of course they aren’t.

Look up (v.78)

We saw this sign when we were up north a few days back, and I just had to include it here. Danger lurks above in northern winters, ya’know.

Unselected

As I did several months ago, JCB recently received a juror summons. He was in group 3, so we thought he might have to appear, and was to call in last night to find out if he had to show up downtown today. No groups were called, he found out, and he got to sleep in.

I was gonna try something about “barking up the wrong tree,” but…pfft, I couldn’t make it sing, rock, or rumble in any pleasant way.

Acer palmatum

I do enjoy some of the dramatic creations of the “Portrait / stage light” settings (although others are dreck).

Inhale (and imagine)

I came back from being at Book Club, a short stroll well after dark set in, and…redolent. That’s the word. Our front steps were awash in the scent of gardenias. Here’s a night shot, which definitely needed white balancing to look correct.

Cool and rainy

We saw the Looming Peach in SC, and definitely felt we were closing in on GA and home while miles were still ahead of us.

Coming into metro, we weathered a traffic jam, ho hum. We found our (OUR!) gardenias beginning to bloom, so: yay!

We missed an earthquake yesterday…hopefully, there aren’t more tremors coming. It’s 63°F and precipitating, so welcome home on the weather front, too.