Doctor HP Flowers

By what authority

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     It’s gratifying to take pictures that resemble a specific work or are based on a particular school or style of art.
     This patch of snow-dusted leaves, on a cold windy morning, calls to mind a ‘drip art’ painting by Jackson Pollock from around 1949.
     If one asserts, by this comparison, that the frosted pattern-in-nature qualifies as fine art, would that be a legitimate or fallacious example of the argument called ‘Ad Verecundiam’.

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© d101226-009  Leaves with Snow
  Stone Mountain Park
  DeKalb County, Georgia
  Sunday 26 December 2010



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No Side Show

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     The American Beech (Fagus grandifolia) chooses not to compete with maples and oaks and other attention grabbing super stars of the Fall color clique.  “No siree bob!”  Proud and unwilling to be intimidated, the Beech chooses another course from green to yellow to a uniform tawny, bronzy tan.  And holds on to its foliage deeply into winter when others have fallen, lost in the forest litter.  No side show -- Mister Beech is the only show in the cold empty woods.

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Stone Mountain Park
DeKalb County, Georgia
Saturday 25 November 2010



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Matchless

 

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     Cheese-n-eggs, grits, raisin toast and Musselman’s apple butter surely hit the spot, but were no match for the quiet fog that accented this Sweetgum in the morning’s November light.




© d101125-005  Sweetgum
  Stone Mountain Park
  DeKalb County, Georgia
  Thursday 25 November 2010



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Sobriety Test

 

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“Stand on one foot…”
“Watch my finger…”
“Count backwards from 10…”
“Count backwards from 10…”
“Count backwards from 10…”



© d101031-011  Maple Leaves
  Cooper Creek Road
  Union County, Georgia
  Sunday 31 October 2010



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Brite, Frosty Morn

 

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The Park begins
To unfurl its colors
This brite, frosty morn.

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© d101106-001  Colors
Stone Mountain Park
DeKalb County, Georgia
Saturday 6 November 2010



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Dripping Wet

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     Under the dripping weight of a morning shower this unknown prefers anonymity.  Sportin’ cool blue berries and orange-vermilion stems, fat chance – meaning little or no chance according to The Free Dictionary dot com.




© d100821-007  Berries
  Arabia Mountain
  DeKalb County, Georgia
  Saturday 21 August 2010



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"Up Scope!"

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After tunneling for weeks
Thru hard packed snow
Direction finders erratic
Batteries squandered
There was only one thing to do.
“Up scope!”

    


© r0315-17   Corn Stubble
  Orange County, Virginia
  Friday 24 November 1989



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Up Close

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The spectacular often requires one to snuggle
     As if answering a call for intimacy.

    


© d091226-008  Granite Dome
  Stone Mountain Park
  DeKalb County, Georgia
  Saturday 26 December 2009

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Christmas Morn

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     The sedate granite outcrop sizzles with rivulets lingering from last Eve’s downpour finding shallow whirlpools and solution channels engraved by ten thousand Christmas mornings like this.  Overcast; remarkable silver light.  Reflections by hundreds follow the sun striving to break thru.  Precious silence interrupted only by an occasional shutter click.  I’m sure the romantic poet could easily dash off a few soaring lines for a soaring moment like this.  Until then, it’s but a stocking stuffer. I was a good boy after all.

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Arabia Mountain
DeKalb County, Georgia
Friday 25 December 2009

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Just Hangin'

Sometimes,
when prospects get confusing
it helps to simply mellow
and let gravity show the way.

    


© d091101-005  Oak Leaves
  Stone Mountain Park
  DeKalb County, Georgia
  Sunday 1 November 2009

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