Pic(k) of the Week: Pink gnome #7

Pink gnome no. 7,

Whimsy on a front stoop.

Diagonally, I'm hip.

DeKalb County, Georgia, USA. 1 March 2025.

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Blossom Dearie: I'm Hip

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Pic(k) of the Week: Tiny-gnomial

Sitting by a red door,

Nestled in the crook of a fallen tree,

He serenades passersby,

From his tiny-gnomial garden.

Into each life, some whimsy should fall. Forgive me, if you will, the doggerel and pun.

Seen (heard?) in Decatur, Georgia, USA, on 24 April 2022.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Bees vs. ladybugs

Bees vs. ladybugs: who's winning? It's checkerboard whimsy.

Seen in Frazier-Rowe Park, in suburban Atlanta, Georgia (DeKalb County), USA, on 15 July 2021.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Pray for Zinfandel

Pray for Zinfandel!

Or, as Benjamin Franklin wrote to his friend, André Morellet, a 18th-century French economist, philosopher and theologian:

On parle de la conversion de l’eau en vin, à la nôce de Cana, comme d’un miracle. Mais cette conversion est faite tous les jours par la bonté de Dieu, sous nos yeux. Voilà l’eau qui tombe des cieux sur nos vignobles, et alors elle entre dans les racines des vignes pour-être changée en vin. Preuve constante que Dieu nous aime, et qu’il aime à nous voir heureux.

Translated into English, this reads:

We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana, as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy!

Sorry, cerevisaphile. Contrary to your myth, Mr. Franklin did NOT write, "Beer is proof that God loves us." But we can forgive him his trespass.

As to the photo itself: residents of the Oakhurst neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, USA, have installed various whimsical found-art sculptures in their front yards and on the median of their street. I snapped the photo on 19 September 2018.

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