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The Guide (June 2022)
galvanized steel, acrylic LED light bar
— Phil Proctor (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
Decatur (Sycamore Ridge), Georgia, USA.
Picture taken: 24 June 2022.
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▶ "The Guide is a figurative work fabricated entirely from 8" I-beams. The figure stands in the classical contrapposto pose and holds an acrylic staff that illuminates his path through dark times."
— Phil Proctor.
▶The sculpture is one piece in the Decatur Artway public arts project.
▶ See the sculpture from a different perspective (taken during the day): here.
▶ MARTA = Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority.
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▶ Photographer's note:
Handheld (at 1/6 second), lying on my back, looking up.
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Morning mist rising over the Tennesse River, as seen from the...
Chattanooga (Veterans Memorial Bridge), Tennessee, USA.
10 October 2021.
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On 15 October 2021, Flickr's editors chose this image for inclusion in Flickr's Explore feature.
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Gather ye nuts while ye may...even when hanging by your hind legs!
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
9 November 2023.
...with apologies to poet Robert Herrick.
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Look down! It's a tiny, native 'weed' with a sublime name —"Small Venus' Looking-Glass"— seen blooming alongside a sidewalk.
City of Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA.
6 May 2024.
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▶ "Triodanis perfoliata — commonly known as Clasping bellflower, Clasping bellwort, or Small Venus' looking-glass — is a small, annual flowering plant belonging to the bellflower family (Campanulaceae), native to North and South America (from Canada to Argentina). It grows in prairies, along the edges of woods and rocky outcrops, and in disturbed soil, such as roadsides [and sidewalks!].
Triodanis perfoliata grows to a height of 4-18 inches (10–46 cm). On the upper part of the stem, the plant produces bell-shaped five-petaled flowers, approximately ½ inch or less across (1.3 cm), that range in color from blue-violet to pink-purple to lavender, with a white center. There are also flowers on the lower part of the stem but they do not open. These are cleistogamous — automatic self-pollinators that produce seeds."
— Wikipedia.
— North Carolina Cooperative Extension.
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Pink gnome no. 7,
Whimsy on a front stoop.
Diagonally, I'm hip.
DeKalb County (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
1 March 2025.
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▶ Photo —and Pic(k) of the Week— by: YFGF.
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Tall, upright white wild indigo wildflowers are among the first native plants of the spring season to bloom in the Trailhead Community Park, on the...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
15 April 2023.
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▶ Baptisia alba —commonly called white wild indigo or white false indigo— is a herbaceous, perennial plant in the pea family, Fabaceae, native to central and eastern North America, growing in grasslands, favoring moist soils, and typically 2 to 4 feet tall (0.61 to 1.2 m).
White, pea-like flowers occur from a long spike inflorescence [cluster of flowers arranged on a stem], and bloom from April to July, earlier in the southern part of the range. Leaves have an alternate arrangement, and are trifoliate [three-parted], narrow, and oblong. Clusters of large, black seedpods often remain attached to the naked winter stems. Bumblebees pollinate the flowers. The plant can be fatal to cows and irritating to humans, if ingested.
— Wikipedia.
— Lady Bird Johnson Wildlife Center.
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A rare lunar convergence: August's full sturgeon moon was both a blue moon AND a supermoon!
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
19 August 2024 (21:21 EDT)
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▶ Photographer's note:
To create this image on World Photography Day, I waited until evening and photographed the church steeple with a 40 mm focal length and a long exposure of 30 seconds. Then, a few minutes later, I photographed the moon as it rose parallel to the church, with a longer 300 mm focal length and a shorter shutter speed of 1/200th of a second.
I merged the two photos in post-production: in effect, a focal length blend and a time blend. This created an image closely mimicking what I had actually observed. A stellar (or would that be, lunar?) sight!
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▶ Astronomical notes:
☞ "The name Sturgeon Moon comes from the giant lake sturgeon of the American Great Lakes; this native freshwater fish was readily caught during this part of summer and an important food staple for Native Americans who lived in the region. At one time the lake sturgeon was quite abundant in late summer, though they are rarer today."
☞ "The super moon part refers to the moon's orbit, which brings it slightly closer to Earth this month, making it appear bigger and brighter. This occurs since the moon’s orbit around the Earth is elliptical instead of just a circle, and thus there are times when the moon is further and closer to our planet."
☞ "A blue moon is not about the color of the moon, but instead the frequency of the full moon. There are two definitions of a blue moon—the first describes when there are two full moons in a single month. Since the moon’s cycle is 29.5 days, and our average calendar month is 30-31 days, this blue moon occurs every two to three years. There are also seasonal blue moons, in which a calendar season contains four full moons instead of the usual three, and the blue moon is the third of the four full moons. August’s full moon is of this variety. The next seasonal blue moon is expected in May 2027."
☞ "The combination of the super moon and the blue moon is rare, and the time between their occurrences is quite 'irregular' and could be as much as 20 years, with 10 years between the average. Though we had a super blue moon somewhat recently, in August 2023, the next super blue moon will not occur until January 2037."
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☞ Focal length blend
---> Image 1 (Church)
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— Focal length: 40 mm
— Aperture: ƒ/5.6
— Shutter speed: 30 sec
— ISO: 200
---> Image 2 (Moon)
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— Focal length: 300 mm
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— Shutter speed: 1/200 sec
— ISO: 200
☞ Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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Pungent aroma and brilliant color, but...a weed? Wild garlic, blooming, in...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
27 May 2023.
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▶ "Allium vineale —commonly known as wild garlic, onion grass, crow garlic, or stag's garlic— is a perennial, bulb-forming species of wild onion in the genus Allium and family Amaryllidaceae (amaryllis). It is native to Europe, northwestern Africa, and the Middle East. The species has been introduced in Australia and North America, where it has become a noxious weed.
All parts of the plant have a strong garlic odour. The underground bulb is 0.4 to 0.8 inches in diameter (1–2 cm). The main stem grows 1 to 4 feet tall (30–120 cm), comprising a number of small red bulbils (exterior bulbs) with a few pinkish-green flowers, 3⁄32 to 3⁄16 inches long (2.5 to 4.5 mm)."
— Wikipedia.
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Even (especially?) at night, southern live oaks can appear magical and magnificent.
St. Augustine Beach, Florida, USA.
9 September 2022.
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▶ "Quercus virginiana —also known as the southern live oak— is an evergreen oak tree native to the southeastern United States and the lower coastal plain of the Gulf of Mexico. Though many other species are loosely called live oak, the southern live oak is particularly iconic of the Old South."
— Wikipedia.
▶ Photographer's note.
A long exposure (15 seconds) at night, with an orange spotlight illuminating the trees from below. 'Monochromed' in post.
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Perched only a few yards from a boardwalk over a wetland, a red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus) was warily observing me from over its shoulder, but obligingly remained posed for the camera.
South Peachtree Creek PATH in Mason Mill Park
DeKalb County (North Druid Hills), Georgia, USA.
16 August 2025.
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▶ Photo — and Pic(k) of the Week — by: YFGF.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
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Wrong way? Pedestrians fill the streets, during the...
Decatur (Decatur Square), Georgia, USA.
6 May 2023.
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Native blue mistflowers, blooming adjacent to a wild-garden pond.
Trailhead Community Park of the East Decatur Greenway
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
3 October 2025.
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❀ Botanical note:
"Conoclinium coelestinum — commonly known as blue mistflower, mistflower wild ageratum, or blue boneset — is an herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to eastern and central North America, growing in moist soils, wood edges, sandy woodlands, wet meadows, and stream banks.
The plant grows to a height of 1 to 2½ feet (30 to 76 cm) with round, light green stems. The opposite-growing leaves are ovate to triangular in shape, with blunt teeth. It produces flowers from late summer until frost. Flat-topped clusters, or panicles, of blue, purple, or lavender flowerheads, measuring 1 to 3 inches (3 to 8 cm), are located at the end of the stems. Each flowerhead consists of approximately 40 to 50 disk florets, each with a tiny, tubular corolla [collection of all petals in a flower] featuring 5 spreading lobes."
— North Carolina Cooperative Extension.
— Wikipedia.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
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Come feed the little birds,
Show them you care.
And you'll be glad if you do.
Their young ones are hungry
Their nests are so bare.
All it takes is tuppence from you.
Feed the birds, tuppence a bag,
Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag.
— Mary Poppins.
City of Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA.
6 June 2024.
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▶ The birds in the water are a mother mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) and her ducklings. On land, the larger, braver bird, feeding to the right, is a Moscovy duck (Cairina moschata), native to Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. Small wild and feral breeding populations have also established themselves in the United States.
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Over the dun hill,
A tree comes into blossom.
A moment recursive
In Brigid's turn.
City of Atlanta (Candler Park), Georgia, USA.
21 March 2025.
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📷 Photographer's note:
Here — at the Candler Park Municipal Golf Course— the Stone Mountain Trail (managed by the PATH Foundation) and the Freedom Park Trail (managed by the Freedom Park Conservancy) converge along the same route.
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Tall, yellow ragwort wildflowers, growing abundantly in the wetlands of Glenn Creek in early spring.
DeKalb County (Clairmont Heights), Georgia, USA.
22 March 2024.
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▶ "Packera anonyma — commonly known as Small's Ragwort, Appalachian Ragwort, Southern Ragwort, Plain Ragwort — is a wildflower in the aster family (Asteraceae), native to much of the eastern United States, south of New England.
Small's Ragwort flourishes in habitats that are wet during the winter and dry in summer and is one of the first native flowers to bloom in abundance, beginning in March and continuing into June. The ray and disc flowers are bright yellow, 8-15 rays per flower. The plant grows up to 3 feet tall (1 m)."
— North Carolina Cooperative Extension.
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▶ Seen on the purple-blazed Three Creeks Trail: one in a "labyrinth of soft-surfaced trails" in and around a 120-acre Piedmont forest in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. The trail connects Ira B. Melton Park to the larger Mason Mill Park. The three creeks of the trail's name are Glenn Creek, Burnt Fork Creek, and South Fork Peachtree Creek; the first two are tributaries of the third.
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...behind you!
Atlanta (Reynoldstown), Georgia, USA.
18 February 2022.
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She came.
She saw.
She flew
Away.
A North American tyrant flycatcher (tyrannidae), perched over...
Postal Pond
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
31 October 2020.
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Looking for shapes (and implied motion) in the winter woodland.
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
27 December 2023.
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▶ Photographer's note:
On 26 January 2024, the administrator for the Flickr group, "Flickr Forest & Woodland Landscapes," rejected this image as NOT depicting a woodland landscape. That's some serious mularkey, Jack!
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Coming or going? Locomotive 964 decouples from a long line of freight cars. As seen, late in the afternoon.
Atlanta (Kirkwood), Georgia, USA.
29 December 2020.
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▶ The skyscraper silhouetted dead-center is SunTrust Plaza, the second-tallest building in Georgia.
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Wetlands of South Fork Peachtree Creek: a 'bayou' morning on Beaver Pond.
Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve
DeKalb County (Medlock Park), Georgia, USA.
19 March 2023.
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▶ Compare this image to one taken from a different vantage point, farther to the left, and earlier in winter: here.
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A wood stork (Mycteria americana) perches in a tree.
On a hammock in a brackish marsh, in...
St. Augustine, Florida, USA.
5 September 2022.
▶ See a phalanx of storks at the park: here.
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☞ On 27 August 2025, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's daily Explore feature (118th out of 500 chosen in a blue-color-themed 'takeover').
☞ Note that the image originally had been uploaded nearly three years earlier.
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❖ Ornithological note:
"To the north [of Fort Mosé], colonies of wood storks, egrets, and herons have established several nesting rookeries. These gregarious birds showcase their breeding plumage from mid-March through July.
One of the largest birds to nest in this area is the wood stork. This area is ideal for nesting because the changing water level reveals higher concentrations of fish during lower tides. Females lay two to five eggs, which both parents incubate for about one month. A pair of nesting wood storks and their young need approximately 443 pounds of fish during the breeding season to survive.
In the 1930s, there were an estimated 20,000 breeding pairs of wood storks [in Florida]; today, the population is approximately 8,000. The numbers have declined drastically, mainly from loss of feeding grounds due to land development, logging, and draining."
— Fort Mosé placard
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Spring vestured,
Winter senescent.
Seasonal juxtaposition.
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
18 March 2021.
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A kayaker runs the rapids of the Potomac River at Great Falls, as viewed from the...
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Park (aka C&O Canal)
Montgomery County (Potomac), Maryland, USA.
25 November 2015.
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▶ Camera: Olympus Pen E-PL1.
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Blue lyreleaf sage, blooming wild, in...
DeKalb County (Northlake), Georgia, USA.
9 April 2022.
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▶ "Salvia lyrata —commonly known as lyreleaf sage— is an herbaceous perennial in the mint family (Lamiaceae) and native to the eastern and central United States. It may grow 1 to 2 feet tall, with leaves that originate at the base of the stem. Each basal leaf [arising from the base of the plant.] is lobed like a lyre, hence the species name, and lavender flowers occur in rings around the stem from mid-spring to early summer, attracting butterflies."
— North Carolina Cooperative Extension
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Wild red clover: a most gorgeous and valuable 'weed.'
Trailhead Community Park of the...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
28 April 2023.
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▶ "Trifolium pratense — commonly known as red clover— is a herbaceous species of flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae. It is native to Europe, Western Asia, and northwest Africa, but has been naturalized in many other regions, such as North and South America.
☞ Trifolium pratense grows 8 to 31 inches tall (20–80 cm). The flowers are dark pink with a paler base, 0.5 to 0.6 inches long (12–15 mm), produced in a dense inflorescence [cluster of flowers arranged on a stem], attractive to bumblebees.
☞ Tolerant to drought, Trifolium pratense is widely grown as a fodder crop, valued for its nitrogen fixation, which increases soil fertility and promotes protein rich growth, and enables it to support a wide range of wildlife including deer, turkeys, and rabbits. Its flowers and leaves are edible."
— Wikipedia.
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"Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from Heaven,
Like the first dewfall, on the first grass."
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
7 November 2021.
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▶ Photographer's notes:
☞ Crepuscular rays illuminated the pond wetlands in morning mist. (Well, ok, deliberately induced sun-flares did.)
☞ On 9 November 2021, Flickr's editors chose this image for inclusion in Flickr's Explore feature.
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A Sunday morning reverie (quiet other than the honking of Canada geese, off-camera).
City of Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA.
27 August 2023.
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"And smale foweles maken melodye"
A ruby-crowned kinglet (usually found in northern North America) was way south for the winter.
DeKalb County (Northlake), Georgia, USA.
26 February 2025.
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📷 Photographer's notes:
☞ Thank you to Flickr-er Bárbol who confirmed my guess that this handsome fellow was indeed a ruby-crowned kinglet.
☞ However, there appears to be some dispute about its taxonomy. Whereas Bárbol — and my 2008 edition of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern North America— classifies the species as Regulus calendula, the American Ornithological Society reclassified it as Corthylio calendulain 2021.
☞ The quotation (at the top of the caption) is a line from the Prologue to 14th-century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Translated from Middle English to modern English, it reads: "And many little birds make melody."
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▶ Rejection:
On 22 March 2025, the administrator for the Flickr group "GEORGIA, THE PEACH STATE" rejected this photo for NOT displaying "scenic beauty of the State of Georgia, USA." Denying the kinglet its migratory presence in the state is gaslighting nonsense.
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A red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus) winks at me. Or, maybe, she's just covering her left eye with a nictitating membrane. [Zoom in!]
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
6 June 2023.
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▶ Thank you to Flickr-er Brennan Mulrooney
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Rapeseed (Brassica napus), blooming in...
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
16 April 2021.
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▶ Rapeseed is the plant from which canola oil (an adman's portmanteau of 'Canada' and 'ola', the latter itself meaning 'oil, low acid') is extracted. The re-name may have seemed more, err, palatable.
▶ Decatur's Kitchen Garden is an immigrant-operated community garden.
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Pens down! In a 'sketch-off,' participants had only a short time to draw a portrait of the person sitting across from them.
Atlanta Dogwood Festival in...Piedmont Park
Atlanta (Midtown), Georgia, USA.
13 April 2025.
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Regal autumn color.
City of Atlanta (Candler Park), Georgia, USA.
19 November 2025.
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North for breeding season, a yellow-crowned night heron perches on a tree branch in swampy marshland.
Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve
DeKalb County (Medlock Park), Georgia, USA.
21 April 2023.
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▶ About the Yellow-Crowned Night Heron
☞ "Nyctanassa violacea —commonly known as the yellow-crowned night heron— lives near shallow water; marshes, wooded swamps, and lakeshores for inland populations, and thickets, mangroves and cliff-bound coasts for coastal populations.
☞ Unlike the black-crowned night heron, which has a worldwide distribution, the yellow-crowned is restricted to the Americas. Small crustaceans are its principal diet, so it winters where the climate allows for year-round crab activity: south Florida, the Gulf Coast, Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. But during breeding, it can be found farther north [such as here, in Georgia].
☞ The yellow-crowned night heron is a stocky wading bird, ranging from ~2 to 2½ feet long (55 to 70 centimeters) and from 1½ to 2 lbs. (650 to 850 g), with a wingspan ranging from ~3½ - 4 feet (101 to 112 cm).
☞ Its body and back are a smooth grey-blue, with a black scaled pattern on the wings. The long legs are yellow and turn coral, pink, or red during courtship. The head is black and glossy, with white cheeks and a pale yellow crown going from the bill, between the eyes, to the back of the head. Long, thin, white feathers grow to the back of the crown during mating season. The bill, also black, is thick and deeply set under the eyes which are dark orange or red."
— Wikipedia.
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▶ Photographer's notes:
☞ Well, I blew out some of the highlights and cut off one of the heron's feet, but, nonetheless, I was excited to have photo-caught this fellow in the wild.
☞ Thank you to a passing birder who identified the bird for me and congratulated me on my new "lifer." Apparently, that's birdwatching lingo for spotting a bird you’ve never seen before!
☞ On 28 June 2023, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's Explore feature.
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"A rolling stone gathers no moss" ... but a polypore can!
DeKalb County (Oak Grove), Georgia, USA.
7 January 2024.
▶ This is a closeup. The fungus appears much larger in the image than it did in 'real' life.
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Dunes after late-afternoon storm.
St. Augustine Beach (Crescent Beach), Florida, USA.
1 September 2024 (18:39 EDT).
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👎 Rejection:
On 19 August 2025, the administrator for the Flickr group "CSSS: Earth - Landscape Dominate" rejected this photo. (The acronym 'CSSS' stands for 'cloud, storm, sunset, or sunrise.) So, let's examine things. The image displays dissipating storm clouds; sunset will arrive within the hour; the beach landscape comprises half the image. So what's the problem? Unexplained nonsense.
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Native black-eyed Susan wildflowers (Rudbeckia hirta) bloom in a pollinator garden, on the...
South Peachtree Creek Trail in Mason Mill Park
DeKalb County (Clairmont Heights), Georgia, USA.
18 July 2025.
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❀ Botanical note:
“Rudbeckia hirta — commonly known as black-eyed Susan and yellow coneflower — is a flowering plant in the aster family (Asteraceae), native to eastern and central North America.
The plant grows to 3½ feet tall (1 m), blooming from late summer into early autumn. The flowers have daisy-like yellow heads, up to 4 inches in diameter (10 cm), with yellow ray florets circling a conspicuous brown or black dome-shaped cone, containing many small disc florets. The species epithet means 'hairy' and refers to short, stiff hairs on the leaves and stems. The genus name honors Olof Rudbeck, a 17th-century Swedish botanist.”
— Wikipedia.
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📷 Photographer's note:
On 19 July 2025, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's daily Explore feature (477th out of 500 chosen).
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Gulls fly by, as a waxing gibbous moon, 89% illuminated, rises over an Atlantic Ocean beach at sundown.
City of St. Augustine Beach (Crescent Beach), Florida, USA.
4 September 2025 (7:47 pm EDT).
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📷 Photographer's note:
On 29 September 2025, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's daily Explore feature (341st out of 500 chosen).
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Brilliant red poppies (Papaver rhoeas) bloom in an urban wildflower meadow planted along a CSX railroad track.
City of Clarkston, Georgia, USA.
13 May 2025.
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▶ The Stone Mountain Trail is an urban pedestrian trail that stretches for nineteen miles, connecting downtown Atlanta to Stone Mountain, Georgia.
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End-of-summer sunrise over...
St. Johns Ocean & Fishing Pier
St. Augustine Beach (Anastasia Island), Florida, USA.
3 September 2024. (7:23 am EDT)
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▶ Photographer's notes:
My plan — to enjoy the morning sun rising over the Atlantic Ocean from under the county pier (and take a photo thereof)— crashed like surf against groynes.
☞ When I arrived, I discovered that the city had recently restored the beach to a high-tide-point beyond the pier. Furthermore, the retreat of the water had revealed structural deficiencies at the end of the pier, forcing the county to temporarily close that farthest segment for repair.
☞ So, to create an illusion of ocean under the pier, I moved the tripod well back toward the boardwalk, placed it low to the beach, and shot with a slow shutter speed. C'est la photographie!
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Idyll beyond the pavement,
How green was my valley
In vernal raiment.
DeKalb County (Forrest Hills), Georgia, USA.
15 April 2023.
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▶ The East Decatur Greenway extends, unpaved, about ⅓-mile beyond its paved trailhead to the south, continuing northeastward through a wildflower garden, then over Cecilia Creek (aka East Fork Middle Branch Shoal Creek) via a small pedestrian bridge (pictured here), and, finally, concluding alongside the eastern bank of the creek.
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A barley malt silo, outside of...
Decatur (East Decatur Station), Georgia, USA.
30 January 2022.
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▶ A brewery silo is a "container used for bulk storage of unmalted or malted grains, generally made of steel —constructed to maintain the proper moisture level of the grains— with smooth sides and hopper bottoms of [30 to] 80-degree cones" [for grain egress into the brewery, often via an augur].
— Encyclopedia of Beer (1995).
Christine Rhodes, Thomas Bedell, Fred Eckhardt, et al.
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In morning, hiking the rocky granite/gneiss summit of...
DeKalb County (Stonecrest), Georgia, USA.
20 October 2024.
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▶ Composed primarily of granite-gneiss migmatite rock, Arabia Mountain is a monadnock —"an isolated small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain." Its almost barren summit sits 955 feet (290 m) above sea level but rises only 172 feet (52 m) above the surrounding countryside of pine and hardwood woodlands.
▶ More photos of Arabia Mountain: here.
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Snow falling on magnolias,.
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
16 January 2022.
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▶ Photographer's notes:
☞ It may have been rain, sleet, and only a dusting of snow, but it sure was 'purdy.'
☞ On 18 January 2022, Flickr's editors chose this image for inclusion in Flickr's Explore feature.
☞ On 25 January 2024, the administrator for the Flickr group, "Flickr Forest & Woodland Landscapes," rejected this image as NOT depicting a woodland landscape. As tennis great John McEnroe once famously exclaimed, "You cannot be serious!"
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The sights of the city cannot be seen, and
Its sounds only faint, as
The fisherman wades.
A great blue heron, on (in)...
Postal Pond
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
15 December 2020.
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Coal-carrying CSX freight train, as seen from an overpass on the South Peachtree Creek Trail, in...
DeKalb County (North Druid Hills), Georgia, USA.
11 February 2016.
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Mirror'd morning on Beaver Pond...but not a rodent in sight!
Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve
DeKalb County (Medlock Park), Georgia, USA.
6 February 2024.
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Look down! Tiny blue winter speedwell blossoms have popped up, low down, in large numbers, seemingly overnight.
DeKalb County (Avondale Estates), Georgia, USA.
24 February 2022.
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▶ "Veronica persica —known as birdeye speedwell, common field-speedwell, Persian speedwell, large field speedwell, bird's-eye, or winter speedwell)— is a flowering plant in the plantain family (Plantaginaceae). It is native to Eurasia and is widespread as an introduced species elsewhere, including North America. [...] The short-stalked leaves are broadly ovate with coarsely serrated margins, and measure one to two centimeters (0.4 to 0.8 inches) long. The flowers are roughly one centimeter (0.4 inches) wide and are sky-blue in color with dark stripes and white centers."
— Wikipedia.
▶ This is a closeup. These tiny flowers appear much larger in the image than they did in 'real' life.
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Twilight intimately,
Bare-armed,
The lady in mist.
Postal Pond in Decatur Legacy Park
City of Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
7 December 2025.
📷 Reverse angle: here.
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Españolas (2010)
painted concrete
St. Augustine Sculpture Garden
St. Augustine Beach (Lake Anhinga ), Florida, USA.
12 September 2025 (7:29 am EDT)
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▶ About the artist
"I grew up in Caracas, Venezuela during the sixties. Now, I am a multidisciplinary artist, painter, muralist and sculptress. I am a College level art instructor and recipient of Artist in Residence grants in Jacksonville, FL. I have participated several times in Jacksonville's Cultural Council Art in Public Programs, developing murals, banners and large art panels. I was pre-selected by the Police Athletic League with a proposal with large size colorful concrete pillows for their outdoor areas. I have designed and executed large mosaic murals for the Florida Museum of Natural History. I recently completed two commissions, a collection of paintings inspired on St. Augustine's female historic figures, and a series based on Floridian history. I completed three monumental sculptures for the St. Augustine Sculpture Garden in St. Augustine Beach, Florida."
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❖ Historical note:
St. Augustine is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the continental United States, established by Spanish explorers in 1565. One can easily picture the female colonists, las españolas, Sunday-promenading with their parasols and fans, reminiscent of the scene depicted by the sculptor. The St. Augustine Sculpture Garden is situated just beyond the city's southeastern border, in St. Augustine Beach, a small beach resort town of mid-20th-century vintage.
📷 Photographer's note:
I first made the acquaintance of these charming ladies on a visit to St. Augustine in 2018 and took their portraits. I wasn't completely satisfied with the outcome, so I returned seven years later for another try. The park appeared a bit worn, in need of some care, and the sculpture's descriptive plaque had gone missing. Nevertheless, les Españolas, with their fans and parasols, looked resplendent en alborada. Felicitaciones!
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Two small lakes —once excavation pits for an early-20th-century clay-brick manufacturer— are now fecund wetlands of the South River.
DeKalb County (Gresham Park), Georgia, USA.
18 July 2024 (7:35 am EDT)
▶ The view behind the camera: here.
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▶ "Constitution Lakes is a 125-acre park operated by DeKalb County, the land purchased for $1.28 million in 2003. Part former brickworks, part wildlife refuge, part hiking trail, part snake pit, and part art exhibit, the land has been transformed by both humans and the flooding South River into an ecological sanctuary smack in the middle of an industrial district.
At the center of the park lie two small lakes that were excavation pits created by the former South River Brick Company [late 19th and early 20th-century] digging out the soft red clay for bricks. The lakes feature countless turtles, crappie, and catfish, along with bass fish: large mouth, small mouth, spotted and striped bass. For bird watchers, you’ll see belted kingfishers, woodpeckers, ducks, blue herons, [ibises], geese, hawks, and more."
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
— Lens: Olympus M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R.
— Panoramic stitch (9 images)
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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