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An innocent time before coronavirus: no social-distancing, no masks. Just cold beer on a hot day.
Atlanta (East Atlanta Village), Georgia, USA.
28 September 2019.
▶ An edit of a previously uploaded photo.
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Where the six-mile Burnt Fork Creek (left) joins the fifteen-mile South Fork Peachtree Creek (right and foreground).
DeKalb County (Clairmont Heights), Georgia, USA.
2 July 2024.
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▶ Geographical note:
Seen from a rock ford literally IN the South Fork Peachtree Creek, along the purple-blazed Three Creeks Trail: one in a "labyrinth of soft-surfaced trails" in and around a 120-acre suburban-Atlanta Piedmont forest.
The trail connects Ira B. Melton Park (south, to the right) to the larger Mason Mill Park (north, to the left). The third creek of the trail's name is Glenn Creek, a two-mile-long creek that empties into the South Fork Peachtree Creek, about ⅕-mile downstream of this image.
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▶ Photo and story by: YFGF.
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Up high, as seen through the windows of the Skyway — connecting the Anne Cox Chambers Wing and the Wieland Pavilion— in the...
City of Atlanta (Midtown), Georgia, USA.
9 February 2025.
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📷 Photographer's notes:
☞ On 28 May 2025, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's daily Explore feature (333rd out of 500 chosen for Explore's 'takeover' celebrating patterns, in May).
☞ Always check your camera's settings. A high ISO was fine for taking photos inside the darker museum, but not outside in the bright afternoon light. To cover my gaffe, I'll claim I deliberately intended the filmic grit!
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▶ Photo —and Pic(k) of the Week— by: YFGF.
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Native ferns in mortal combat with invasive English ivy, in...
Decatur (Midway Woods), Georgia, USA.
12 January 2020.
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Pink/purple coneflowers blooming in the Trailhead Community Park native plant pollinator garden, along the...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
1 June 2024.
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▶ "Echinacea purpurea — commonly known as the eastern purple coneflower, purple coneflower, hedgehog coneflower, or echinacea— is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to parts of eastern North America. Its habitats include dry open woods, prairies, and barrens.
Many pollinators are attracted to E. purpurea flowers, such as bumblebees, sweat bees, honey bees, the sunflower leafcutter bee, and the mining bee, Andrena helianthiformis. Butterflies that visit include monarchs, swallowtail butterflies, and sulfur butterflies. Birds, particularly finches, eat and disperse the seeds through their droppings."
— Wikipedia.
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▶ Photo and story by: YFGF.
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— Image stitch (2).
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Umbrella in foliage,
Under summer rain.
Tableau at the park.
DeKalb County (Clairmont Heights), Georgia, USA.
25 July 2024.
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📷 Photographer's notes:
☞ On 12 August 2024, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's daily Explore feature (92nd out of 500 chosen).
☞ Image unsuccessfully entered in the Flickr 2025 World Photography Day Contest, in the 'open ' category. (See the winning image: here.)
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▶ Photo and story by: YFGF.
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White asters,
Back-lit at sunset.
Evanescent bouquet.
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
14 October 2022.
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"Pues había ahí un frío, una huella,
una nieve tan inaccesible
que esta pura gota de blancura
es un fragmento de aurora
un trozo de oro azul
que cada día se desprende
de tu propia antártica"
Juan Pablo Riveros, Libro del frío
Chaos in thicket,
Lichen on bare tree.
Forest bleak.
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
10 December 2021.
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— Fotodiox adapter
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Hymn Songs of an Alternate Universe a 6.1% alcohol pale ale, on draught, on the patio, at...
Avondale Estates (Rail Arts District), Georgia, USA.
29 May 2021.
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▶ New, this production brewery opened on 15 May 2021. Brewer/owner: Jon Shari.
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— Focus stack (2)
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Red, white, and blue. Well, OK, almost blue.
Ipomoea purpurea (aka purple morning-glory), as seen blooming wild, in...
East Decatur Station
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
1 July 2020.
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Stone steps lead down to a ford over Deepdene Creek, "reminiscent of the majesty of great piedmont forests before Atlanta was settled."
— Hiking Atlanta's Hidden Forests.
Deepdene Park of Olmstead Linear Park
DeKalb County (Druid Hills), Georgia, USA.
12 December 2021.
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▶ "Deepdene Park is the largest segment of the six-park Olmstead Linear Park system, forming the eastern end. Unlike the other five pastoral segments, it is a wooded tract with a stream winding through its 22 acres and a topography that ranges from steep slopes to a flat meadow. Deepdene is the property of Fernbank Museum of Natural History which leases it to the DeKalb County Department of Parks and Recreation."
▶ Deepdene Creek is a tiny tributary of Lullwater Creek, itself a tributary of Peavine Creek, which flows into South Fork Peachtree Creek, which, with the North Fork, is a major watershed in the Atlanta, Georgia-metro area.
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▶ Vocabulary:
A dene is a steep-sided wooded valley through which a burn (stream) runs. (UK)
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"We call 'em yellow daisies."
— Arabia Mountain park ranger
A Porter's sunflower blooms on Arabia Mountain
DeKalb County (Stonecrest ), Georgia, USA.
25 September 2023.
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▶ ABOUT THE SUNFLOWERS
☞ Every year in September, an explosion of yellow flowers covers granite outcrops such as Arabia and Panola Mountains [and Stone Mountain]. These are yellow daisies (Helianthus porteri). Related to sunflowers, they are one of the fall wonders within the Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area. Found in only 4 states —Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, and South Carolina— the flowers are most common on the granite outcrops of the Georgia Piedmont region, thriving in fragile solution pits —often dry, sandy vernal pools— found on bare rock faces.
— Arabia Mountain Heritage Area Alliance.
☞ "Helianthus porteri is a species of sunflower (Helianthus) —commonly known as Porter's sunflower, Stone Mountain daisy, and Confederate daisy— native to the southeastern United States, particularly Georgia and Alabama.
☞ The term 'daisy' is imprecise because the species is a sunflower rather than a daisy (Bellis and related genera).
☞ Likewise, although the plant grows on Stone Mountain, in Georgia, its range extends beyond [such as Arabia Mountain].
☞ The connection to the Confederacy through Stone Mountain is also tenuous. Although the mountain contains a confederate monument, the species was named well before the Civil War, in 1849, in honor of Thomas Conrad Porter, a Pennsylvanian minister and botanist who collected the plant in Georgia.
☞ Helianthus porteri grows on thin soils on and around flat rock granite and gneiss outcrops. It grows up to 40 inches tall (100 cm). One plant usually produces 5 or more small [1½ inches or 4 cm] flower heads, each containing 7 or 8 yellow ray florets surrounding a central disk of 30 or more yellow florets. A summer annual that blooms in the fall, Helianthus porteri drops seeds that grow the following year."
— Wikipedia.
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▶ Photographer's notes:
☞ On 25 October 2023, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's daily Explore feature.
☞ This is a close-up. The blossom appears larger in the image than it did in 'real' life. More photos: here.
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— Extension tube (10 mm).
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An un-posed photo of an empty beer can (and, what a beer!)... left behind on a picnic table.
DeKalb County (Avondale Estates), Georgia, USA.
23 November 2020.
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▶Just as Pabst Brewing continues to milk a blue ribbon it once received for its beer at a long-ago competition, the Huyge Brewery —located near Ghent, Belgium— touts its Delirium Tremens as the "best beer in the world" for one accolade in one competition in 2008. Named for symptoms brought on by alcohol withdrawal, the beer is, fittingly, a strong beer, containing 9% alcohol.
▶ The late, great beer sage Michael Jackson described Delirium Tremens as: "Very bright [golden]. It has a dense head; a very fruity (greengage? gooseberry?) bouquet; a sweetish palate; and a lot of warming alcohol in an abrupt finish."
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Meadow white.
Autumn field.
Appearing as if the 'wild,' but in reality, in Legacy Park, within the city of ...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
23 September 2020.
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Popping the top,
Into town
Rode the Galaxie 500.
Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA.
15 March 2018.
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▶ Photographer's note.
No traffic laws were violated! The traffic signal was red.
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Former industrial superstructure.
Atlanta (Oakland), Georgia, USA.
24 December 2019.
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Look up! A waning gibbous moon (and an avian astronaut).
Seen over Postal Pond
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
22 April 2022.
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▶Photographer's note:
On 9 September 2024, the administrator for the Flickr group Panasonic Lumix 100-300 Leica 100-400 —missing in action for several years— suddenly returned with a vengeance. Among other actions, they rejected, en masse, TWENTY-THREE of my photographs, all taken with the Panasonic Lumix G Vario 100-300/F4.0-5.6 lens, all abiding by their 'rules.' The tranche was so large that Flickr listed only a dozen of the repudiated. This image was one of them.
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A small wildflower with a big name: panicled leaf tick trefoil.
Postal Pond in Legacy Park
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
12 September 2024.
▶ Is it a late-summer blossom or an early-autumn-er? You decide.
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▶"Hylodesmum nudiflorum (previously known as Desmodium nudiflorum) — commonly known as naked-flowered tick trefoil, panicled leaf tick trefoil, stemless tick trefoil, or naked-stemmed tick clover— is a species of perenial flowering plant in the legume family (Fabaceae), native to eastern North America. Hylodesmum nudiflorum is typically found in mature, open hardwood woodlands in moist, sandy, gravelly, or loamy soil with high organic content. It is a nitrogen-fixing species through symbiosis with soil-borne bacteria.
Hylodesmum nudiflorum's delicate pinkish blooms, ⅓-inch (0.8 cm), are sweetly fragrant, occurring mid to late summer, borne on leafless stems. Reminiscent of pea-like blooms, the flowers have a rounded upper petal and three narrower lower petals longer than the upper.
Hylodesmum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, sometimes called ticktrefoils or tick-trefoils. It is sometimes treated as part of Desmodium. It includes sixteen species native to eastern North America, sub-Saharan Africa, and southeast Asia."
— North Carolina Cooperative Extension.
— Wildflowers of the United States.
— Wikipedia.
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▶ Photo —and Pic(k) of the Week— by: YFGF.
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Overhead, a vaping deejay spins; below, a climbing muralist paints.
Atlanta (East Atlanta Village), Georgia, USA.
28 September 2024.
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▶ "The East Atlanta Strut, always on the fourth Saturday in September, combines a parade, a street festival with live music, artists' markets, and a 'porchfest' to show off the entire neighborhood. East Atlanta also has a thriving business district, with restaurants, bars, and shops showing off more local music and art.
Since its inception in 1988, the East Atlanta Strut has been completely run by volunteers. That allows the Strut to return 100% of its profits to the community. More than $100,000 has been donated in just the last few years — for programs that assist the unhoused, groups that feed people, organizations that help keep our longtime neighbors in their homes, and to support our local fire station and library, pet rescue groups, child mentoring groups, local schools, arts organizations, and neighborhood beautification projects."
▶ More photos: here.
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📷 Photographer's note.
Image unsuccessfully entered in the Flickr 2025 World Photography Day Contest, in the 'urban ' category. (See the winning image: here.)
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▶ Photo by and Pic(k) of the Week at: YFGF.
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The setting full 'Wolf Moon,' waning gibbous (at 99% illuminated), on a cloudy early morning.
As seen over...
Decatur, Georgia, USA.
7 January 2023. (6:43 am EDT).
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▶ "The first full moon of the new year, January's Wolf Moon, rises on Friday night (Jan. 6). The moon was on the far side of Earth and close to its farthest from the Earth, around 250,000 miles away (400,000 km), making it a 'micromoon' (the opposite of a 'supermoon,' when the moon is closest to the Earth)."
▶ "The moon's orbit around Earth is a flattened circle, or 'elliptical,' so there are times when the moon is closer to Earth and times when it is farther away. However, closest 'supermoons' appear only around 14% larger than farthest away 'micromoons,' a difference virtually imperceptible to the naked eye."
▶ "The Old Farmer's Almanac states that the name for January's full moon—the Wolf Moon— arises due to the fact it was seen at times of the year when wolves could be howling outside villages as a result of hunger."
— Space.com.
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▶ Photographer's note:
This is a handheld, focal-length blend of two shots: one of the moon at a long-telephoto 300 mm focal length and one of the building (behind which the moon was setting) at 108 mm and a slower shutter speed. And, yet, this composite image is faithful to what I saw when I looked up.
A few minutes later, the moon would be no longer visible, 'falling' behind the building.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
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— Focal length blend (2)
☞ Image 1:
---> Focal length: 108 mm
---> Aperture: ƒ/4.1
---> Shutter speed: 1/100
---> ISO: 800
☞ Image 2:
---> Focal length: 300 mm
---> Aperture: ƒ/11
---> Shutter speed: 1/320
---> ISO: 320
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In foreground: 'wash' fermenting in stainless steel.
In background: copper pot still (center) and condenser (right).
Independent Distilling Company
Decatur (Agnes Scott Historical District ), Georgia, USA.
10 June 2023.
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▶ Photographer's note:
On 18 August 2023, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's daily Explore feature.
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bronze, 2013
— Alan Lequire, sculptor.
Chattanooga (Southside), Tennessee, USA.
(intersection of W. Main and Williams Streets)
18 January 2020.
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Farewell, hydrangea,
Erstwhile companion.
Quiescent in winter,
Your corymbs tattered
Yet lingering still.
Atlanta (Edgewood), Georgia, USA.
20 January 2019.
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Celebrating nine years of good beer and food, comic books and graphic novels, pinball and arcade games, good folk and good times (and proper use of an apostrophe)!
Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA.
9 August 2024.
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▶ Photographer's notes:
☞ To be precise, I was there that day but this image, I took one month earlier, in July. The felicitations, however, remain the same.
☞ Pictured beer: Night on Ponce IPA, served on draught, brewed by 3 Taverns Brewery (located only a half-mile from the pub).
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Abt 12, an abbey 'quadrupel ' ale, brewed by Brouwerij St. Bernardus in Watou (West Flanders, Belgium).
Served, on draught, at...
Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA.
6 March 2024.
▶ The ale was kegged and served with artificially injected nitrogen. Nonetheless, it was served in appropriate glassware and it was delicious. Read more: here.
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A storm passes over the Roan Plateau, outside of...
Palisade, Colorado, USA.
25 May 2015.
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▶ Photographer's note
Me, 'storm-chasing': taken from inside a moving car!
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---> Focal length: 15 mm
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Portrait of Maggie Mae.
31 August 2018.
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---> Lens: Canon 50mm ƒ/1.4 FD
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---> ISO: 400
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Chalk painting
— Carrie Dziabczenko (Fort Worth, Texas, USA)
☞ after "Mother and Child" by Bruno di Maio
Decatur (Decatur Square), Georgia, USA.
7 May 2022.
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DeKalb County (Forrest Hills), Georgia, USA.
20 October 2019.
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Spinach-Potato Soup: no animal needed.
Prepared for New Year's Eve,
31 December 2020.
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INGREDIENTS/PROCEDURE
▶ 1/4 cup diced sweet onion, one diced celery stalk, and one clove minced garlic sautéed in olive oil for 3-5 minutes. Set aside.
▶ 1 pound of peeled, small-chunk'ed Yukon potatoes boiled in veggie stock (or water) for 15 minutes.
▶ 2 cups of washed, chopped spinach tossed in the pot for the final 1-2 minutes.
▶ Remove from heat. Add onion/garlic/celery to pot, with 1 TBSP lemon juice, 1 tsp hot sauce, 1 tsp curry powder. Hand blend until creamy (and potatoes completely blended). S/P to taste.
— Adapted from recipe by Jennifer Debth at Show Me the Yummy.
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Caption 1: "Whoa, that's a tough nut!"
Caption 2: Shoot photos of wildlife wherever and whenever you find it...no matter how common!
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
13 June 2023.
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▶ "The eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus. It is native to eastern North America, where it is the most prodigious and ecologically essential natural forest regenerator. Many tree squirrel species have adapted to human-altered environments such as rural farms, suburban backyards, and urban parks.
☞ The eastern gray squirrel has predominantly gray fur, but it can have a brownish color. It has a usual white underside as compared to the typical brownish-orange underside of the fox squirrel.
☞ The head and body length is from 9 to 12 inches (23 to 30 cm) and the bushy tail from 7.5 to 10 inches (19 to 25 cm). The adult weight varies between 14 and 21 ounces (400 and 600 g)."
— Wikipedia.
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▶ The woodland beyond is Seminary Wood, within 77-acre Decatur Legacy Park.
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Bassist Teja Veal prepares for Rhonda Thomas' Red Dragonfly concert.
City of Atlanta (Inman Park), Georgia, USA.
26 April 2025.
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▶ "Taking place on the last full weekend in April, the Inman Park Festival & Tour of Homes is Atlanta’s largest all-volunteer festival. Organized by the Inman Park Neighborhood Association in the 1970s, the festival has grown to become a full weekend jam-packed with events, including music, kids' activities, a Tour of Homes, a marvelous street parade, an artists’ market, and some of the city’s best people-watching."
▶ More photos: here.
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Bassist for Orquesta MaCuba, performing at...
Atlanta (Inman Park), Georgia, USA.
23 April 2022.
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▶ "Orquesta MaCuba has been on the scene in Atlanta, Georgia, since 2003. The Orchestra consists of full brass, percussion, and rhythm sections, with back-up vocalists, providing a Big Band experience."
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Festooned with street art and graffiti, the Krog Street Tunnel passes under Hulsey Yard, between the Cabbagetown neighborhood on the south and the Inman Park district on the north.
Atlanta (Cabbagetown / Inman Park), Georgia, USA.
27 February 2018.
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The curves and curl of this stargazer lily petal just kept drawing my attention until I had to have a go at it. This was one of the flower's in the arrangement my daughter gave me for Valentine's/birthday -- Stargazer Lilies with Alstroemeria (my favs!).
Old Stock Ale (2001 vintage)
— brewed by: North Coast Brewing Company
Fort Bragg, California, USA.
▶ Opened and enjoyed while watching the broadcast of Game 1 of the 2019 World Series.
22 October 2019.
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▶ "Like a fine port, Old Stock Ale is intended to be laid down. With an original gravity of over 1.100 and a generous hopping rate, Old Stock Ale is well-designed to round out and mellow with age. It’s brewed with classic Maris Otter malt and Fuggles and East Kent Goldings hops, all imported from England."
11.4% alcohol (by volume)
34 (?) IBUs (International Bittering Units)
▶ Me:
The bottle, after aging for 18 years, had a touch —if only a light touch— of carbonation remaining. In looks, dark with mahogany/red highlights; in texture, silky smooth; and in taste, like chocolate-covered plums, the predominant story-line among its several sub-plots.
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Majestic in fall.
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
15 October 2019.
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Alfresco may be beautiful but beware the mercaptans. Good-beer lovers don't let their beers get light-struck!
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▶ "Certain compounds in hops are light-sensitive and when exposed to strong light a photo-oxidation reaction takes place, creating the intensely flavor-active compound 3-methyl-2-butene-1-thiol (MBT), one of the most powerful flavor substances known to man. Commonly referred to as 'skunky,' the pungent odor resembles that of the famously malodorous defense spray deployed by skunks."
— The Oxford Companion to Beer (Oxford University Press, 2012).
▶ To ward off the stank, keep your beer out of direct sunlight or fluorescent light. Cans (and kegs) are best for that and brown glass is ok. But green glass? In sunlight, it's nearly worthless (re: that 'Dutch' beer) and clear glass is merely a vessel for liquid skunk (e.g., almost every 'craft' beer patio). And in plastic? Via an additional reaction, the beer gets a burnt rubber flavor.
▶ PS. Light-struck 'skunkiness' is NOT the same off-flavor (or biochemical mechanism) as beer left warm. The latter malodor is oxidation: it causes a beer to taste 'old,' hop-minimal, and like cardboard. It takes longer to develop than the light-struck reaction but can happen to any beer left warm, whether in direct sunlight or not, whether in a can, in brown glass, or in a keg.
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Friday night flights.
Local libations.
Boilermaker for the cure,
Gloves, mask, and all.
Beat COVID-19: buy local at local.
17 April 2020.
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▶ Night on Ponce (7.5% alcohol IPA)
Decatur, Georgia, USA.
▶ Hellbender Bourbon (90 proof)
Independent Distilling Company
Decatur, Georgia, USA.
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▶ Notes on the shot:
I was in a hurry (read: thirsty!), so no tripod and no flash. Thus, hand-held with high ISO.
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"Origination," on draught, for Small Brewery Sunday, at...
Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA.
1 December 2019.
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Origination
"English ESB
An autumnal interplay of malts and hops provides for exquisite balance in this English extra special bitter. Light earthy, herbal hop character intermingles with bready, toffee-like malt notes to produce a highly sessionable ale for the fall season."
5.7 % alcohol-by-volume
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Strike a pose.....
This chap was wandering around the Peace Gardens in Sheffield today. As he came my way I pointed my camera and said "smile" and this was the pose that he struck!!! Lol!
13.02.09 - Today is 'Red for Heart' and February is National Heart Month so I have dug out Mr Hearty for the occasion.
Pabst Blue Ribbon mural on outside wall, at blues club (and 'dive' bar),
Atlanta (Westside), Georgia
19 February 2016.
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Turkeyfoot Creek cascades from under Cascade Road SW into ...
Cascade Springs Nature Preserve
Atlanta (Cascade Heights), Georgia, USA.
9 January 2019.
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▶ It's what you don't hear! The waterfall masks the sound of automobiles above.
▶ A longer-distance, farther-back view: here.
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We don't see his face...but we can almost hear his hands in action. Percussionist Gaurav Malhotra performs during...
City of Decatur (Decatur Square), Georgia, USA.
4 May 2024.
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▶ Photographer's notes:
☞ On 3 June 2024, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's daily Explore feature (no. 85 out of 500 chosen).
☞ On 2 June 2024, the administrator of the Flickr group, "Environmental Portraits, rejected this photo as NOT being an environmental portrait. Phooey!
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Cocktails and tacos! Enjoying wares from food truck Mascogo Tacos, on whiskey-barrel 'tables,' in the alley, outside...
Independent Distilling Company
Decatur (East Decatur Station), Georgia, USA.
4 June 2021.
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▶ Pictured clockwise from top:
☞ Old Fashioned cocktail
Independent Distilling Hellbender Bourbon, Demerara Syrup, Aromatic Bitters, Regan's Orange Bitters, twists of lemon & orange.
☞ Barbacoa taco
Braised brisket cooked in smoked chilis, with spices, onions, cilantro.
☞ Pollo con Chili Verde taco
Hatch-chili-verde-stewed chicken breast, onions, cilantro, Cotija.
☞ Los Cactus taco (partially obscured)
marinated grilled cactus, onions, cilantro, charred tomato salsa, with Cotija cheese. "What's the cactus in the taco," I asked chef Craig L. Headspeth. "There's only one edible cactus," he replied. "Prickly pear."
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👎 Rejection:
The administrator for the Flickr group called "Street Food that makes you say, 'Mmmm.'"deemed this photo unworthy of inclusion in their group and rejected it. Did they dislike Moscagos Tacos or my photo...or both?
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When both the dew point and the temperature are 9 °C (48 °F).
Atlanta (Candler Park), Georgia, USA.
3 December 2017.
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A mug of Geste, in the beer garden, at...
Atlanta (Grant Park), Georgia, USA.
31 October 2020.
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▶ The brewery's grand opening occurred the previous weekend, on 24 October 2020. A view of the exterior: here.
▶ UPDATE:
The brewery closed in October 2024.
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▶ Brewery beer description:
"Geste
Dark Czech [style] Lager
ABV: 4.7%
IBU: 18
A tale of adventure! Stories from Prague praise a dark lager that delights the palate year-round. [Tastes of] rye bread, dried dates, and chocolate."
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▶ My description:
In style, the beer might be the new brewery's nod to a Czech-style tmavé pivo. I don't know if Elsewhere decocts Geste, as would be the traditional method. Nonetheless, the beer pours with a long-lived, spumous off-white head (via a side-pull tap!); there are aromas of spicy hops and toasted rye-bread; the body is off-dry, alchemically big in such a small beer; flavors of toasted rye bread, chocolate, licorice, and dried dark fruit are chased by a spicy, Czech-style hop finish. In a word: sublime!
▶ The brewery pronounces "Geste" as "jest." I added the adjective beau to the caption. The phrase "beau geste" is from the French, meaning "a graceful or magnanimous gesture".
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▶ Rejection.
On 5 July 2024, nearly four years after I had submitted this photo to the group, Food and Drinks creative photography, the administrator rejected it (and seven other food/drink photos of mine), despite it (and the other seven) satisfying the group's rules. Capricious nonsense.
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Shoal Creek shoals, in...
Decatur, Georgia.
11 May 2019.
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"Hi! Why are you doing that?" a young girl enquired as I lay prone on a flat rock on the banks of the creek, focusing my camera.
"I'm trying to see what the fish see," I responded.
She seemed to think about that for a couple of seconds, said, "Oh," and walked off.
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Geraniums bloom in a bed of silver licorice.
Garden, in...
Atlanta, Georgia.
11 June 2019.
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