Hermetics. A field of industrial parts. As seen from the Stone Mountain Trail, in Scottdale, Georgia, USA. 24 August 2024. *************** -----more----- Pic(k) of the Week: one in a weekly series of images posted on Saturdays. Photo 38 of 52, for year 2024. See a larger, hi-res version on Flickr: here. Commercial reproduction requires explicit permission, as per Creative Commons. Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II. Lens: Olympus M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R Settings: 27 mm; 1/40 sec; ISO 400; ƒ/8.0 For more from YFGF: Follow on Flickr: Cizauskas. Follow on Instagram: @tcizauskas. Follow on ..read more

Dense thickets of tiny arrowleaf tearthumb wildflowers, blooming in early autumn. Seen along the banks of Postal Pond in Decatur Legacy Park: City of Decatur, Georgia, USA. 28 September 2024. Persicaria sagittata — commonly known as American tearthumb, arrowleaf tearthumb, or arrowvine— is a plant, in the buckwheat family (Polygonaceae), native to the eastern half of North America (as well as eastern Asia!). It grows in moist areas along lake shores, stream banks, etc. Persicaria sagittata is an annual herb growing up to 7½-feet tall (200 cm), with prickles along the stem. Leaves are up t ..read more

A small wildflower with a big name: panicled leaf tick trefoil. Seen blooming on a bank of Postal Pond in Legacy Park: City of Decatur, Georgia, USA. 12 September 2024. Is the trefoil a late-summer blossom or an early-autumn-er? You decide. 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. Hylodesmum nudiflorum — previously known as Desmodium nudiflorum and commonly known as naked ..read more

Gather ye nuts while ye may...even when hanging by your hind legs! Seminary Wood in Legacy Park: City of Decatur, Georgia, USA. 9 November 2023. ...with apologies to poet Robert Herrick! *************** -----more----- Pic(k) of the Week: one in a weekly series of images posted on Saturdays. Photo 37 of 52, for year 2024. See a larger, hi-res version on Flickr: here. Commercial reproduction requires explicit permission, as per Creative Commons. Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II. Lens: Olympus M.40-150mm F4.0-5.6 R Settings: 102 mm; 1/25 sec; ISO 200; ƒ/5.6 For more from YFGF: Follow o ..read more

Umbrella in foliage, Under summer rain. Tableau at the park. Mason Mill Park: DeKalb County, Georgia, USA. 25 July 2024. On 12 August 2024, Flickr's editors selected the image (as one of five hundred) for inclusion in Flickr's daily Explore feature. *************** -----more----- Pic(k) of the Week: one in a weekly series of images posted on Saturdays. Photo 36 of 52, for year 2024. See a larger, hi-res version on Flickr: here. Commercial reproduction requires explicit permission, as per Creative Commons. Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II. Lens: Olympus M.40-150mm F4.0-5.6 R Settings: 1 ..read more

"If you hold my hand and sit real still, you can hear the grass as it grows."  I took this photo of small cascades on Turkeyfoot Creek. And then I sat there and listened. Cascade Springs Nature Preserve: City of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 9 August 2024. *************** -----more----- I originally posted this photo to Flickr on 19 August 2024 in celebration of World Photography Day. In 1838, Frenchman Louis Daguerre took the first practical photograph —using his eponymous process, daguerrotype on a silver or a silver-covered copper plate— capturing a view of a street in Paris, France ..read more

A rare lunar convergence: August's full sturgeon moon was a blue moon AND a supermoon! As seen over the Columbia Presbyterian Church, in the City of Decatur, Georgia, USA, on the evening of 19 August 2024 at 22:06 EDT. ☞ 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 o ..read more

On 9 August 2024, the pub, My Parents' Basement, celebrated its ninth anniversary 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). Congratulations! City of Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA. The pictured beer is Night on Ponce IPA, a permanent on-draught offering, brewed by 3 Taverns Brewery (located only a half-mile from the pub). To be precise, I was at the pub that day but, this image, I captured one month earlier, in July 2024. The felicitations remain the same. *************** -----more----- P ..read more

A macabre greeting. Suburbanesque crossroads between the city neighborhoods of East Atlanta and Gresham Park. Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 18 July 2024. *************** -----more----- Pic(k) of the Week: one in a weekly series of images posted on Saturdays. Photo 32 of 52, for year 2024. See a larger, hi-res version on Flickr: here. Commercial reproduction requires explicit permission, as per Creative Commons. Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II. Lens: Olympus M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R Settings: 14 mm | 1/100 sec | ISO 200 | ƒ/8.0 For more from YFGF: Follow on Flickr: Cizauskas. Follow on Inst ..read more

Two small lakes —once excavation pits for an early-20th-century clay-brick manufacturer— now are beautiful bird-and-plant-fecund wetlands of the South River. Here, pictured just after daybreak. Constitution Lakes Park: DeKalb County (Gresham Park), Georgia, USA. 18 July 2024 (7:35 am EDT). 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 ecologica ..read more