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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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An unpicked pear, in an orchard, in...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
10 September 2020.
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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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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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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!).
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.
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🍺 The brewery artificially kegged the beer with nitrogen. The pub poured it likewise, as is the latter-day norm. Wonderfully, however, the pub served the beer in appropriate glassware, which is NOT always the norm. Read more: here.
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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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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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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.
"Farina": a delightfully delicate 'Kölsch-style' beer brewed by Halfway Crooks Brewery (Atlanta, Georgia).
Here, served on draught (in its own glassware), at...
City of Decatur (Decatur Square), Georgia, USA.
24 May 2025.
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▶ About the beer
☞ Halfway Crooks' description:
"Top-fermenting lager brewed with German pilsner malt, hops sourced directly from Seitzfarm in Bavaria, a classic Kölsch yeast, Atlanta water. Notes of white wine, pear, German pilsner malt, floral German hops, and a refreshing dry finish. 4.8% ABV" [alcohol-by-volume]
☞ Craft Beer & Brewing's review:
Light herbal, earthy aromas. Mild bitterness, moderate spicy, earthy hop flavors, then some light white-grape acidity. Subdued soft fruit esters come out in the middle. Nicely balanced sweetness and bitterness.”
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▶ About Kölsch
"Kölsch has the pale color of a fine Pilsner but the fruitiness of a fine ale. It is defined by German law as top-warm-fermented and cold-aged, with an alcohol content of 4.4 to 4.9 percent by volume. Also by German law, the beer must be brewed from Pilsner and Vienna malts, but may also contain up to 20% wheat malt. The beer has an aromatic bitterness and noticeable hop character, is well-fermented [like an ale], but is lagered cold for 14-40 days.
Kölsch is properly served — in a tall, narrow, straight-sided 200-ml (6.8 US fl oz) glass about 5 inches (13 cm) tall — at 55 °F (13 °C), with a pale white collar about an inch deep."
— Encyclopedia of Beer (1995).
Christine Rhodes, Thomas Bedell, Fred Eckhardt, et al.
▶ "Since 1997, the term 'Kölsch' has had a protected geographical indication (PGI) within the European Union, indicating a beer that is made within 50 km (31 mi) of the city of Cologne (Köln) and brewed according to the Kölsch Konvention as defined by the members of the Cologne Brewery Association (Kölner Brauerei-Verband)."
— Wikipedia.
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▶ Some breweries outside of Germany attach the moniker, 'Kölsch-style'...although Halfway Crooks pointedly does not!
▶ I couldn't find any information online confirming that the beer contains wheat malt, even though its name — "farina" (a form of milled wheat)— would imply it does.
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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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Majestic in fall.
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
15 October 2019.
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Pabst Blue Ribbon mural, on outside wall at blues club (and 'dive' bar)...
Atlanta (Westside), Georgia, USA.
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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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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A sad song: a man walks in front of the long-abandoned Whole Note Restaurant and Lounge, in ...
Chattanooga (MLK District), Tennessee, USA.
6 October 2018.
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🎶 "At one time Chattanooga was a destination for some of the best music in the South. And Ninth Street, or the Big Nine, was where you went to find it. From the early 20th century into the 1970s, the Big Nine was a mecca for black music and entertainment: Tennessee’s very own Harlem. Now, Ninth Street is called MLK Boulevard, and the few old buildings that still exist there [such as the Whole Note Restaurant and Lounge] are carcasses of the former stores and nightclubs."
— The Lost Music Town of Tennessee.
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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."
▶ More images from the festival: 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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Refreshed by rain, Elephant ears (aka Caladium) seem to flap in a breeze.
In a garden, in...
Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
15 June 2019.
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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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Defend democracy. It's time for a general strike!
Atlanta (Atlanta Civic Center), Georgia, USA.
18 October 2025.
▶ "An estimated 10,000 gathered at the Atlanta Civic Center parking lot in Old Fourth Ward to hear speakers before a march from the Civic Center to Liberty Plaza [downtown] outside the State Capitol building."
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▶ "No Kings protests took place on October 18, 2025, as part of a series of demonstrations against Donald Trump's policies and actions during his second presidency. The demonstrations, which followed the June 2025 No Kings protests, took place in some 2,700 locations across the country, including the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Chicago, New York City, [and Atlanta].
Approximately 200 organizations collaborated to coordinate the October protests, which drew nearly 7 million participants nationwide, marking it as one of the largest single-day demonstrations in American history."
— Wikipedia (accessed 28 October 2025).
📷 More photos: here.
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Steam billows, inside, on a cold day, outside.
Baltimore County (Halethorpe), Maryland, USA.
16 January 2013.
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▶ This photo tied with one other for the best beer-related amateur photo of 2013.
"First thing you see is just a jumble. But then again that use of colour to create depth - the yellow emergency rinse station, the red trolley. Then I start to think I have seen this sort of structure before. Not the brewing structures but the layout of the image. It's like a Vermeer. The light is from the upper left. The steam acts as the curtain or the doorway Vermeer used to create a frame within a frame. Much of the scene is ordinary like so many 1600s Dutch household paintings. The red cart is the girl."
— Alan McLeod: A Good Beer Blog.
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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.
🍸 More distillery photos: here.
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▶ 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:
An administrator and/or moderator of the Flickr group "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? Flummery!
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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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With a half-hitch, the winch was secured.
Sarasota (Sarasota Bay), Florida, USA.
5 October 2019.
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Geraniums bloom in a bed of silver licorice.
Garden, in...
Atlanta, Georgia.
11 June 2019.
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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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Not John Goodman, maintaining his cool on a hot and humid late September day, during the...
Atlanta (East Atlanta Village), Georgia, USA.
28 September 2019.
▶ More pix: here.
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▶ "The East Atlanta Strut is East Atlanta's free annual one-day neighborhood festival, always on the third Saturday in September featuring a parade, food, live music, art, and events. The festival is held to highlight the businesses in East Atlanta Village as well as raise funds for schools, senior programs, and Neighbor In Need East Atlanta. The festival is run completely with volunteers."
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▶ Photographer's note:
On 1 October 2019, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's Explore feature.
The image entered at position #139 out of 500 selected that day. At some point afterward, it was 'bumped' from the rolls. (There are, indeed, numerous posts on Flickr-related forums wondering at the arcane year-to-year mutability of Flickr's Explore algorithm.)
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Antique sedan, as seen through snow and freezing rain pelting another (less cool) car's window.
Baltimore (Fells Point), Maryland, USA.
5 December 2009.
"You should have opened the window," a colleague admonished. "Nope!" I (pointilistically) replied.
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Pride flag flying proudly over a pub, in...
Decatur (Beacon Hill), Georgia, USA.
26 June 2021.
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▶ On this day (26 June) in 2015, the United States Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that the U.S. Constitution grants same-sex couples the right to marry and that the Constitution’s guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law mean that states cannot ban same-sex marriages.
— PBS
▶"No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right. The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is reversed. It is so ordered."
— Obergefell v. Hodges
Supreme Court (pdf)
26 June 2015.
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Streetscape and the artist: Crystal Moll paints S. Charles Street
Baltimore (Federal Hil), Maryland, USA.
10 November 2012.
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A sign seen during the COVID-19 pandemic (before conspiracy theories and hate became pandemic).
DeKalb County (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
20 May 2020.
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📷 Photographer's note.
Image selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in COVID-19: American Experiences Gallery.
"This gallery features photos and graphic artworks from the Library of Congress’ Flickr group, 'COVID-19: American Experiences.' Selected for their diversity of subject matter and quality in composition, these images will be preserved in the Library’s permanent collections. Thank you one and all for contributing a rich variety of images that will help future generations learn about many aspects of the pandemic."
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Pick Of The Week: Can you guess which rock song is visualized in this Pickture? * * * #effectsdatabase #fxdb #pickoftheweek #famousrocksongs #famoussongs #rockhits * * * by @huurwoordenaar & @seira_wou, via Instagram: bit.ly/2doSIDQ
With a beer,
he waits.
A stalwart friend.
Prince William County (Woodbridge), Virginia, USA.
28 August 2015.
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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."
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Harvest Ale 2000
11.5% alc/vol
— J.W. Lees & Co. (Manchester, UK).
Brewed and bottled in Y2K; stored in my 'cellar' for twenty-one years; tasted on 29 January 2021.
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▶ "Though J.W. Lees Brewery of Middleton, England, has been crafting quality beer since 1876, it wasn't until 1986 that it released its delectable sipper into the world. Brewed with the choicest [me: ugh] Maris Otter malt [me: sublime] and East Kent Goldings hops [ibid.], it has the legs to go the distance. The brewery uses a house-developed yeast strain to ferment the brew in original open copper-lined vessels."
— Vintage Beer (Patrick Dawson): Storey Publishing, 2014.
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▶ Me:
---> Considering the Harvest Ale's venerable age, its carbonic condition and head retention were remarkably good. In fact, they were that of a 'fresh' beer. Likewise the clarity —just see-through deep garnet color— was good.
---> In the aroma, I sniffed chocolate and dark berries. Taking a sip, I tasted the same but with secondary flavors of oloroso sherry and ruby port. Taking a gulp, I tasted a semi-sweet beer, with an unctuous finish (in a good way). Any burn from its alcoholic strength (11.5%) had been mellowed over time.
---> I might have enjoyed a flourless chocolate dessert (or a fine Stilton cheese) with the beer but, given such a divine taste of liquid history, I enjoyed it per ipsum.
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▶ Photographer's note.
On 5 July 2024, more than three years after I had submitted this photo to the Flickr group, Food and Drinks creative photography, the administrator suddenly rejected it (and seven other food/drink photos of mine), despite it (and they) satisfying the stipulated rules of the group. Capricious nonsense.
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Happy Christmas to all,
And to all a good night.
Decatur (downtown), Georgia, USA.
22 December 2023.
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A bicycle rack, like a sculpture, marks the PATH, on the Stone Mountain Trail, in...
Decatur (Old Depot District), Georgia, USA.
3 August 2019.
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▶ Photographer's note.
In 2021, this photo was published in Rails-to-Trails Magazine.
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Beat the heat, twice! In the beer garden, at...
Atlanta (Poncey-Highland), Georgia.
7 July 2018.
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Syzygy!
This was the ruddy, full Beaver Moon, 97% eclipsed, this morning at 4:11 am ET (9:11 UT). And, unlike the night sky of a non-eclipsed full moon, stars were readily visible surrounding the umbral-shadowed moon.
Overhead...
Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
19 November 2021.
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▶ This was the maximum point (Well, almost. Maximum had occurred 8 minutes earlier, at 4:03 am) of a nearly 6-hour partial lunar eclipse, the longest such since year 1440 and not to recur at such length until the year 2669.
If you missed it, fret not! North America will be witness to, not one, but two TOTAL lunar eclipses next year, on 15 May and 7 November 2022. (Your geographical results may differ. Check your local listings.)
▶ See the waxing moon seven days earlier, with Jupiter nearby: here.
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▶ Photographer's notes:
Something is seriously off-kilter with Flickr's statistic-counter. At the beginning of December 2022, this photo had been seen just over 1,000 times (and that's after being posted in December 2001). Now, at the end of December 2022, Flickr's statistic counter shows over 8,000 views. It's an interesting image...but that good? Except with pixie-dust, that's highly improbable.
☞ 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 rejects. This image was one of them.
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From sold to razed in three weeks.
DeKalb County (Decatur Heights), Georgia, USA.
28 December 2019.
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▶ A long-time, one-stop combo junkyard, used car dealer, auto repair shop, tax preparer, and money services firm —in English y en Español—is no more. Bye, bye, MoMo.
▶ How it appeared in April 2019: here.
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Slow down for trees!
Emory Road NE
Atlanta (Druid Hills), Georgia, USA.
7 November 2018.
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'Texas Beach ' in the James River
Richmond, Virginia, USA.
26 September 2009.
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Field o'cattails,
Riparian autumnal.
On Greely Lake — wetlands adjoining Echo Lake, a shallow, 18-acre impoundment — in ...
DeKalb County (Oak Grove), Georgia, USA.
23 September 2021.
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▶"Typha latifolia (broadleaf cattail, bulrush, common bulrush, common cattail, cat-o'-nine-tails, great reedmace, cooper's reed, cumbungi) is a perennial herbaceous plant in the genus Typha. It is found as a native plant species in North and South America, Europe, Eurasia, and Africa. T. latifolia is always found in or near water, growing mostly in freshwater but also in slightly brackish marshes."
— Wikipedia.
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Fungi grow on fallen tree limb.
Atlanta (Druid Hills), Georgia, USA.
30 December 2017.
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Artist (group): Weather Report
Vinyl LP (1974)
Label: Columbia
Catalog No.: KC 32494
Stereo
Vinyl, out-of-print (original pressing)
Number of Discs: 1
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▶ Rear cover: here.
▶ LP on turntable: here.
▶ Inner sleeve: here.
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☞ Side 1
1. Nubian Sundance 10:40
2. American Tango 3:42
3. Cucumber Slumber 8:22
☞ Side 2
1. (4) Mysterious Traveller 7:18
2. (5) Blackthorn Rose 5:02
3. (6) Scarlet Woman 5:47
4. (7) Jungle Book 7:20
The album cover and inner liner erroneously list Jungle Book after American Tango on side 1, and omit Cucumber Slumber.
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▶ Musicians (Weather Report)
☞ Joe Zawinul – leader, electric and acoustic piano, synthesizer, guitar, kalimba, organ, tamboura, clay drum, tack piano, melodica
☞ Wayne Shorter – soprano and tenor saxophone, tack piano
☞ Miroslav Vitouš – acoustic bass (tr. 2)
☞ Alphonso Johnson – electric bass
☞ Ishmael Wilburn – drums
☞ Skip Hadden – drums (tr. 1,4)
☞ Dom Um Romão – percussion, drums
☞ Various guest musicians, including:
Ray Barretto – percussion (tr. 3)
☞ Helmut Wimmer (Hayden Planetarium) – front artwork
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▶ "In 1974, three years after the band's inception, Weather Report became one of the world's most popular jazz groups due to their uncompromising originality and musicianship. This was the year that founding member Miroslav Vitous was replaced by Alphonso Johnson, who became a critical asset as both a fluid, creative bassist and a composer. Drummer Ishmael Wilburn and Brazilian percussionist Dom Um Romao, with a shifting cast of supporting players, laid the foundation for the band's most exciting incarnation yet. The overdue reissue of Mysterious Traveller is a welcome acknowledgment of this mid-period lineup's importance in the evolution of fusion."
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▶ To me, 1974's Mysterious Traveller marked Weather Report's transition from the improvisational sound of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, in its first albums, to the more composed-through funk/rock vamping of its later efforts. It's also my personal pre-Jaco (Pastorius) favorite of Weather Report's oeuvre, and, in particular, the cuts: Blackthorn Rose with a beautiful soprano sax/piano duet, the miniature electronica of American Tango, the ethereal (and mysterious) title track, Mysterious Traveller, and the jazz-funk workout of Cucumber Slumber.
A wonderful find in a local thrift shop — and in good condition— in...
Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA.
13 August 2020.
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Was it splendor in the grass or a garden party? Still life arranged just so, seen adjacent to the...
DeKalb County (Scottdale), Georgia, USA.
1 April 2020.
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▶ COVID-19: The statewide shelter-at-home order permits me to take the dog out for short walks. The camera comes with us.
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Tynt Meadow English Trappist Ale
— English Trappist beer, brewed at Mount St Bernard Abbey, in the town of Coalville, in Leicestershire, England, UK.
Imported bottle (330 ml / 11.2 fl.oz), tasted in...
Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
20 September 2022
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▶ How did it taste?
Short answer: delicious!
Long answer:
☞ Burnished-copper appearance; clarity, good. Poured well-conditioned, with a long-lived off-white head and some nice lacing down the glass...possibly because of bottle-conditioning (with live yeast) which may have contributed a measure of oxygen-scavenging (i.e, active protection against staling). Thus, the beer tasted fresh, despite its trans-Atlantic voyage.
☞ The principal flavor was dark fruit with lesser motifs of bitter chocolate and treacle. Interestingly, the monastery does NOT use Belgian yeast (which is the norm for most Trappist ales) but an unidentified English yeast-strain (in addition to English barley and hops, both also unspecified) that seemed to be noticeable as a fruit-cake flavor. It finished in smooth fashion, although the alcohol (7.4% alcohol-by-volume, i.e., abv) did seem to create a strong presence in the aftertaste. (I detest the illogical neologism "drinkable.").
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▶ The monks of Mount St Bernard Abbey quote Psalm 104:
"You make the grass grow for the cattle and the plants to serve man’s needs, that he may bring forth bread from the earth and wine to cheer man’s heart.."
▶ Me:
Beer, of course, is LIQUID bread. "Give us this day our daily bread."
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