Doctor HP Flowers

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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A Matter of Scale

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At Sunrise
Scale doesn't matter.

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Stone Mountain Park
DeKalb County, Georgia
Sunday 26 April 2009

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Miniatures

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     "It's my way, or the highway," Elf Orpine seems to say.  Locate a shallow depression in a gently sloped granite surface.  Wash in a thin layer of sand and soil.  Edge with moss.  Then, advertise as prime real estate for this succulent Sedum.  Inconsequential cracks and crevices serve as well.

    

© d090419-005  Diamorpha Smallii
  Stone Mountain Park
  DeKalb County, Georgia
  Sunday 19 April 2009

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Chorus Line

     Surviving last night a chorus line of tornado laden thunderstorms stretching half way across Georgia and into central Alabama, the annual dogwood shot could still be consummated this lovely morning.

    

© d090411-006  Dogwood
  Stone Mountain Park
  DeKalb County, Georgia
  Saturday 11 April 2009

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Side-by-Side

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     eHarmony.com computers processing their 29 dimensions of compatibility would grind to an unfulfilling halt questing for these two that deliriously happy match made only in cyber heaven.  The plantain-leaved pussytoes (Antennaria plantaginifolia) and rue anemone (Anemonella thalictroides) wink together and chortle at their record breaking negative score, realizing a deeper level of compatibility totally ignored by fancy statistics.

          Well we ain't got a barrel of money
          We may look ragged and funny
          But we're travelin' on
          Singing our song
          Side by side.

          - Kay Starr, 1953

    

Stone Mountain Park
DeKalb County, Georgia
Friday 3 April 2009

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I'll be watching you

"Every breath you take
 Every move you make
 Every step you take
 I'll be watching you

"I'll be watching you
 I'll be watching you
 I'll be watching you
 I'll be watching you..."

    
-The Police,  1983

© d090405-001  Buzzard on Branch
 Stone Mountain Park
 DeKalb County, Georgia
 Sunday 5 April 2009

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Spring Rains

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Stricken by months of persistent drought
The Park responds joyfully to soaking Spring rains.

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Stone Mountain Park
DeKalb County, Georgia
Monday 30 March 2009

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Overcast. A Cool 52.

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Overcast. A cool 52.
Damp breeze. Turn up collar.
Red-eyed bluet hides in the grass.
Elf Orpine beginning to bud
    inflates its tiny presence
    for the Lilliputian power show
    a fortnight hence.
Early morning shower.
Slippery rocks
    reflect the silver light.
Leg strength not available.
Huff and puff.
Careless steps unacceptable.
Humidity grabs my throat.
Shirt feels wet…

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© d090307-019  Trout Lily
  Erythronium americanum Sp.
  Stone Mountain Park
  DeKalb County, Georgia
  Saturday 7 March 2009

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Upstaged

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     Whilst tip-toeing thru beds of stimulated trout lily this characteristically reticent purple hepatica grabbed my heart and stoled the show.

    

© d090306-006  Round Lobed Hepatica
  Hepatica americana sp.
  Stone Mountain Park
  DeKalb County, Georgia
  Friday 6 March 2009

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Yes Minnesota

     Yes Minnesota, the Nation's deep freeze seizes Atlanta like the rest of the country.  Fortunately the mercury here reads 'below 30', NOT '30 below'.  Low 20's at night.  It's my annual opportunity for numb thumbs and frozen fingers in pursuit of nature's infinite and glorious patterns.

    

© d090117-002  Icicles
  Stone Mountain Park
  DeKalb County, Georgia
  Saturday 17 January 2009

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