31 December 2011

bring it on


seventh day of christmas

the other cattleya has started to open! a fresh flower for the new year! it was actually the first orchid i ever got to rebloom, usually twice a year ----

30 December 2011

sixth day of christmas


the camellia sasanqua are looking good --- took a load of stuff to salvation army, a total of about four cubic feet! el condo seems a whole lot lighter all the way around ---- 


29 December 2011

27 December 2011

more lights

took cousin angela last night and it was great except that it was absolutely mobbed




25 December 2011

christmas surfeit

peachtree is a dead zone this evening ---

21 December 2011

solstice ceremony

i had only gotten as far as a strand of white lights and the christmas pickle, but a box of excellent ornaments arrived from dallas and forced the issue --- i should have gotten out the stepladder so the ornaments were more evenly distributed, but i didn't

besides being the solstice, which actually occurs at half past midnight tonight, today was the last day at rich's for twelve consecutive days!!! and having gotten every loose end sorta tied up, i can relax and enjoy some quality time with the dog

waiting on the train

we have a range of messages expressed here

crescent avenue

i love midtown: slick and shiny in one block, the old neighborhood in the next

winter solstice sunset

it'll soon be moving north again --- more light!!!

20 December 2011

bright lights in the rain

it was a damp night at the botanical garden and some of the lights had shorted out, but it was still quite the spectacle, even the third time around --- i'll probably go again before its run is done

intown building

novare, the crew that built metropolis, spire, and viewpoint is supposed to be building a 23-story apartment tower with a w. ptree street address, location marked in red below --- i haven't been by recently to see if they actually broke ground for it yet --- 12th&midtown also announced a similar building --- wonder if they'll get built --- at least this one would replace nothing but surface parking lots

19 December 2011

christmas on peachtree


 georgian terrace
st. mark's













federal reserve













805 peachtree

17 December 2011

he was fearless

writing

via andrewsullivan

If he has not made himself a worthy vessel, he has in the largest sense failed. Call it complete and utter nonsense, but when it eludes you — the tone, or the feeling of surprise, the current you can feel when the circuit is complete — when you know what that’s like and don’t have it — then such repudiation is useless. The psyche is irrational.

harmonic convergence at 1308

after six years, i still love my sky house --- sunlight flooding every room, including the entrance hall where, once a year for about a week around the winter solstice, the sun reaches its conjunction with the rbc bank building and the setting sun illuminates the hall --- and the only reason that happens is that when they straightened out the old country road into peachtree street in the 1880s, they laid out the street about four degrees east of north --- cypress, juniper, myrtle, and penn along with third through seventh are laid out accordingly --- eighth street and beyond are laid out more or less true east-west

15 December 2011

atl bot gdns lights

 just as good on a second visit --- runs through the twelfth day of xmas


ending bush's war

what a fukn waste --- 4,500 of our guys killed, 35,000 with permanent injuries, and at least 100,000 iraqis dead --- god only knows the war crimes that will never be prosecuted --- never mind the trillions pissed away in the process --- where would be if we still had those lives and that money?

14 December 2011

the changing view

sunset is almost always colorful but the sunset this evening was above average

13 December 2011

city hall christmas

city council confirmed my appointment to the urban design commission --- swearing-in in january begins a 3-yr term --- wheeeee!!!!

11 December 2011

fading fast

all things considered, it's been a decent fall