Pic(k) of the Week: Winter Sky

A winter storm blows away in late afternoon.

Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA. 9 January 2024.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Jogging in the fog

When both the dew point and the temperature are 9 °C (48 °F), a jogger disappears into a fog bank.

Freedom Park, in the Candler Park neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 3 December 2017.

Freedom Park is is the largest public park in Atlanta, Georgia, comprising 210 acres of linear green space and six miles of hiker/biker trails. The park was created in 1992 from condemned land which originally was to be the Stone Mountain Freeway, a multi-lane divided-highway that would have bisected nine historic neighborhoods and destroyed a string of parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.

— Freedom Park and Parkway.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Fallen

Fallen, 

The tree in gloom. 

Forsaken,
Its erstwhile matins.

Dense morning fog in a woodland.
Legacy Park: Decatur, Georgia, USA. 2 December 2023.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Which way is the wind blowing?

Built from auto-parts, a homemade weather vane indicates a breeze blowing from the northeast.

As seen at an auto-body repair shop, in the Reynoldstown area of Atlanta, Georgia, USA, on 22 February 2020.

NB. A weather vane points in the direction that the wind is coming from.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Brumous night

Brume: "fog, mist."

One of those wonderful borrowed words not used frequently in English nowadays. Merriam-Webster: "French, mist, winter, from Old Occitan bruma, from Latin, winter solstice, winter; akin to Latin brevis short."

In the city evening brume, on 8 February 2020, in Decatur, Georgia, USA.

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