Brothers-in-Law

Bellingham, Washington

Bellingham Bay

Bellingham, Washington

Cool Architecture

I've always admired this building, with its offset corner. But it's on busy Georgia Highway 400, so I've never been able to get a picture. But today I was "lucky" enough to be caught in the aftermath of a multi-car accident, so I took this picture.

Guerilla Art

...at Pullman Yard in Atlanta, a favorite place for photos.

After One Year....

On this site, I posted a picture (almost) every day, from December 3, 2010 to December 3, 2011. Only 16 days during that period are without pictures. All but two pictures were taken on the day of the post. Sometimes the daily picture represented the day in a larger way; sometimes it was just a picture. Since I posted so often, some pictures are more interesting than others. Looking back, I'm surprised at how much I like some of them, and how boring others are.

After one year of posting a daily picture, I'm going to post less frequently from now on. I'll post pictures whenever I have something worth sharing. And I'm abandoning all my "rules" - I might go for awhile without posting, or I might post ten pictures on one day. I'm going to keep the name of the blog (and the URL) the same, even though it's no longer really accurate.

Thank you to all who have followed this blog and left comments. Please continue to check back - there will be more pictures, just not every day.

Good Advice

East Howard Avenue, Decatur, Georgia

Angry Monkey King

DeKalb Avenue, Atlanta

Table...

...set for high tea at Dr. Bombay's on McLendon Avenue in Atlanta.

Inside Pullman

I was walking by Pullman Yard today (see my January 31, October 1 & October 20 posts), when I noticed that some urban explorer had left an entrance in the chain-link fence surrounding the property. I couldn't resist; I went in and looked around for a few minutes. This picture is of a passing train, from inside one of the buildings.

Doubtful Assertion

Decatur, Georgia

Sad Tombstone

Today I found myself in Tucker, Georgia, where I lived until I was twelve. Several times each week, some of us kids would walk through this cemetery to go to a nearby store to buy candy or a Coke. This tombstone, of a World War II sergeant shot down over Berlin, always made me intensely sad; it must have been the first gravestone I had ever seen with a picture of the deceased.

Bugs

Avondale Estates, Georgia

Red Guitar Man

From the same yard on Clifton Road as the Little Blue Frog.

Stone Mountain View

Downtown and midtown Atlanta, seen from Stone Mountain, eight miles to the east.

Mello Joy

Forsyth County, Georgia

Santa Claus

Avondale Estates, Georgia

Reflection...

...of clouds in the window of a van.

Thanksgiving Grocery Display

Recording With the 4th WAKO

Recording with the 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra. Pictured are Noah Kess, Roger Ruzow, Nick Dixon and Eric Fontaine.

Ready for the Meeting

Fraser Center, Atlanta

No picture from November 18.

Snakes...

...on a car. Page Avenue, Atlanta.

Inside Harold's

I guess I've had barbecue on my mind lately, since I've visited two of Georgia's great BBQ joints within a week. Harold's, on McDonough Road, has been an Atlanta institution since 1947, and I'll bet the interior has hardly changed in all those years.

Crowley Cemetery

The Crowley family owned land near what is now Avondale Estates, Georgia, from 1829. In 1960, they sold the land to developers, who built Columbia Mall, a shopping center which fell into decline 20 years later, and is now Avondale Mall.

One of the conditions of the sale was that the family cemetery, which saw interments from 1828 to 1931, remain undisturbed. The developer enclosed the cemetery and excavated the surrounding land, so that the graves are above the surrounding parking lot.

40 or 50 slaves were also buried in the area surrounding the Crowley plots. No attempt was made to preserve those graves.

A Long Way From Home

Terrace Avenue, Atlanta

The Simpsons

Red Tree

Atlanta is beautiful in April and November. This tree is on Page Avenue.

Saxophone Quartet Music

For about a week, I've been obsessively writing saxophone quartet music.

Sprayberry's

Another of Georgia's great barbecue joints, in Newnan.

Gingko Tree

This time of year, this tree is the prettiest in my neighborhood. McLendon Avenue, Atlanta.

Election Day

Lampshade

Coffee shop, Atlanta

Cabbagetown Church

A cellphone picture of a bit of old Cabbagetown - Solid Rock Baptist Church on Berean Avenue. (See my post of two days ago for more about Cabbagetown.)

Pablo Casals' Signature

This 1916 record by Pablo Casals has the great cellist's signature etched into the "dead wax" area.

Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills

Part of a 19th-century factory complex in Atlanta. The workers were mostly "immigrants" from the north Georgia mountains; they settled into the surrounding mill village, which came to be known as Cabbagetown. The workers brought their music with them; many early country musicians came out of the cotton mills; Fiddlin' John Carson worked here at Fulton.

This mill is now a high-end residential loft apartment building. Cabbagetown declined into one of the poorest neighborhoods in Atlanta, but is now filled with musicians, artists and other "urban pioneers." It's still a very interesting neighborhood, filled with wooden frame houses and narrow streets.

A Corner of My Music Room

...with some of my records - 78s (single and in albums), LPs, and CD box sets.

Indoors vs. Outdoors

Zenith/RCA Victor

In the eleven years I've been walking past this building on DeKalb Avenue in Atlanta, I had never noticed the remnants of the sign that reveals that it used to house a television repair shop.

Halloween House

The Prado, Atlanta

Ghost Dance

North Decatur Road, Atlanta

Disembodied Hand

...from the same puppet show as my October 28 post, but after midnight.

Shadow Puppets

529 Club, East Atlanta.

Inside the Water Tower

The water tower in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward was built just after the turn of the 20th century to provide water to a cotton warehouse.

Waterfall

Crow Mountain Creek, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of north Georgia.

Tallest Tree

This tulip poplar in Deepdene Park is allegedly the tallest tree in Atlanta.

Our Bat

Bats live in the eaves of our attic vent (which has a screen). We don't mind - since they've moved in, we haven't had a mosquito problem.

The James Gang

...Motorcycle Club; Whitefoord Road, Atlanta

Marching Abominables

The Seed and Feed Marching Abominables at the Little Five Points Halloween Parade, Atlanta.

Charity Walk

Walking to raise money for breast cancer research; Decatur, Georgia.

No Clearance for Man

Pullman Yard, Atlanta. Also see my January 31 and October 1 posts.