City in the Clouds

Seattle from the air.

Okay, I've taken a two-year break from posting pictures daily; I'm ready again.  In 2014, I will once again post a picture every day (or almost every day) to represent that day.

Self-Portrait with Leaves

Glendale Avenue, Atlanta; 11:15 PM.

Coffee Shop at Night

McLendon Avenue, Atlanta; 11;00 PM

King Korn

On the side of an abandoned store outside of Vienna, Georgia.  The jazz composer Carla Bley wrote a tune called "King Korn."

Roosevelt Avenue Train

A train rolling down the middle of Roosevelt Avenue in Albany, Georgia, much to my surprise and momentary panic.  (I was crossing Roosevelt and heard the train before I saw it; there were no warning lights or gates at the intersection.)

Macon Alley

It's not entirely fair, but this is how I always think of Macon, Georgia - old, strange, and decaying.

A Bad Day in 1887

Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Georgia

Pole Bridge Creek

South of Conyers, Georgia

Dumpster Theology

Memorial Drive, Atlanta

Dear Neighbor

A letter left beside a gate; Oakdale Road, Atlanta.

Birdhouse

Candler Park Drive, Atlanta.

Power Outage

A neighbor's tree limb brought down our power line.

Mitchell Street, 12:30 AM

Atlanta

Noon Under the Trees

The Battle of Atlanta started near my house in 1864.  I've always been taken with this historical marker, which describes a peaceful scene just before the destruction began.  General McPherson, of course, did not survive.

Urban Wildflowers

McLendon Avenue, Atlanta

Nebraska Steamboat

The steamboat Captain Meriwether Lewis, built in 1932 and now retired near Brownville, Nebraska.

Sunday Morning in Vaucluse

The 100-year-old post office and the church in Vaucluse, South Carolina, population 89.

Dragonfly and Snake

Two friends seen while walking in a park in Roswell, Georgia this morning.

N, S, and Z

Detail of a painted chair; Barking Legs Theater, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Horse at Dusk

 A cut-out metal sculpture, mounted horizontally on the side of the San Antonio Convention Center, and seen from below at dusk.

Plainview School

An abandoned one-room schoolhouse; Old Federal Road, Franklin County, Georgia.

Enigmatic Sign

I came across this sign in the maze of service corridors in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in downtown Atlanta.

Moon Through Skylight

French Quarter Roofs

New Orleans

St. Louis Cemetery No. 1

The Musicians Tomb at St. Louis Cemetery #1, New Orleans.

Voodoo tomb; this is not the tomb of the famous voodoo queen Marie Laveau, but it's apparently the tomb of a pretty powerful practitioner, judging by the offerings and markings people have left. 

On the Road - South Alabama After Sundown

My camera malfunctioned; the shutter didn't open all the way.  I like the result.

The Hooch, Below the Dam

The Chattahoochee River north of Atlanta, just below the Morgan Falls Dam.