Musings

The pre-sun morning sky wasn’t very spectacular…

…so I also took a goodbye-sun photo.

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At our Xmas gathering, our hostess gave us each a scratch-off lottery ticket. This tradition began to support the Hope scholarships that eventually funded our hostess’s college years, at least in part.

As the odds indicate, mostly none of us win anything beyond the occasional free new ticket.

This year three of the five of us had winning tickets, and somehow we ended up with all of them. The Guru cashed them in this afternoon, and got…tada!…$34. Woohoo!

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Behold, a noble pink camellia.

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Foggy, foggy this morning.

Sunny afternoon, although this Mahonia is on the shady side of a building.

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So clear this morning, and colorful.

On my walk, I encountered this…device. Parked on the verge and out of traffic on the road and on the sidewalk. On the screen there on the right sticking up, the type indicated it was “in service.” No evidence of anything being served.

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Met up with a buddy to walk in a nearby park. Turned out last night’s rain and the day’s overcast meant slippery steps. Oops, my friend went down, rather gracefully, slowly, right on her backside…ouch, too bad. Worse bad: her phone was in her back pocket. Super-oops.

It also turned out that neither of us looked closely on the map at the “park” we intended to walk in. All those nice looping paths are actually golf-cart trails…and behind a fence. So, we had a neighborhood sidewalk stroll instead. Small solace.

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We walked in Piedmont Park this afternoon. Overcast, relatively busy. I overheard lots of Spanish.

The title is hubby-humor.

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Getting clean…a fine idea for beginning the new year.

Traditional Southern New Year’s meal, also a fine idea.

As to the title, we were driving back to ATL from our tasty luncheon in the late afternoon. It turned out that we were driving into the sun, which on several stretches was directly in our eyes. This was additionally tricky because we were on a two-lane relatively rural road with no extra space between the pavement and the ditch. Tricky. The technical term is a sunshine slow-down.

A bit further along, we happened on lines of cars pulled off the road (just barely: narrow road, remember) and parked almost in the ditch, with people standing next to road or walking in the lanes to join clusters of loiterers. Very strange. We eased our way along, passing dozens more vehicles. Increasingly strange. Then, coming at us, driving slowly, we encountered a police car with flashing lights. And around another curve, we found a line of walking Buddhist monks, maybe a dozen, with a dog on a leash, following the police car.

I’m taking all this as good omens for our 2026.

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We had some fine times this year (on a personal level). Still, I’m very much looking forward to 2026.

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Clear and cold, and getting colder through the day. Nice morning glow, no?

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