The Flickr Doggerel Image Generatr

A walk in the woods,
A bend in the path.
A choice unfraught.

Seminary Wood in Decatur Legacy Park
City of Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
3 May 2025.

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▶ Photo by Yours For Good Fermentables.com.
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We're Here - Self-Appointed Geniuses

The tomato plant photo was taken a few years ago, when my friend and I were left in charge of her husband's prized tomato plants. We managed to see off the Marmande plants. I wrote the 'poem' at the time. I thought it fitted today's theme so I've combined the two.

Tiny purple violet,
Winter's creek courier,
Prepare ye the way,
For spring's coming sway.

A tiny common blue violet (viola sororia), blooming in...

Henderson Park
City of Tucker, Georgia, USA.
12 March 2025.

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▶ Photographer's notes:
☞ This is a closeup. The common blue violet was only one centimeter in diameter; it appears much larger in the image than it did in 'real' life.
☞ Then again, the flower might be Viola hirsutula —commonly known as southern woodland violet— another perennial species of small violets found in the eastern United States.

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▶ Commendation / Rejection:
☞ On 13 March 2025, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's daily Explore feature (85th out of 500 selected).

☞ On the other hand, on 22 March 2025, a moderator for the Flickr group "GEORGIA, THE PEACH STATE" rejected this photo for NOT displaying "scenic beauty of the State of Georgia, USA." It's challenging to fathom any rationale whatsoever except for a personal political vendetta.

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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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Wu Li masters,
Dancing in the woodland
Beneath a winter sun.

Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve
DeKalb County (Medlock Park), Georgia, USA.
29 January 2025.

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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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Crepuscular snap.
Sunset strip.
City stroll.

Decatur (East Decatur Station), Georgia, USA.
27 November 2024 (6:39 pm ET).

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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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Pink gnome no. 7,
Whimsy on a front stoop.
Diagonally, I'm hip.

DeKalb County (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
1 March 2025.

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▶ Photo —and Pic(k) of the Week— by: YFGF.
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Pine among reeds
At pond's edge.
Curved struggle
As autumn ends.

Postal Pond in Legacy Park
City of Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
20 December 2024.

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▶ Photographer's note:
On 22 January 2025, one of the administrators for the Flickr group "Tree Masterpieces... For Forests Everywhere!" rejected this photo. Unfortunately (and obviously), they and I share very different opinions on the majesty of trees, be they grand or small. So, phooey and goodbye!

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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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Woodland sprites,
In aureate, tangled.
Do they dance at night?

Seminary Wood in Legacy Park
City of Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
17 December 2024.

▶ Compare to foggy conditions, the following morning: here.

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▶ Photographers note
On 5 January 2024, the administrator for the Flickr group "Natural PATTERNS, Shapes, and Textures (curated)" rejected this photo. The image is nothing if not depicting shapes and forms of a woodland. So, phooey!

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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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— Shutter speed: 1/2500
— ISO: 200
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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Bare tree at river's edge,
Fecund trail in afternoon:
Contrasts of a winter's tale.

At the confluence of Glenn Creek with South Fork Peachtree Creek, in...

Melton Park
DeKalb County (Clairmont Heights), Georgia, USA.
7 January 2025.

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▶ Compare to the same location, but in autumn, when vegetation obscured the boardwalk trail: here.

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▶ Photo by: YFGF.
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Winter herald,
Uncloaked in autumn
Between hardwood and mire.

Seminary Wood in Legacy Park
City of Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
17 December 2024.

...in an ecotone between woodland and bog.

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▶ Photo —and Pic(k) of the Week— by: YFGF.
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The old, renewed
In winter's afternoon light.

Chapel on Sycamore
Decatur (Sycamore Heights ), Georgia, USA.
21 December 2024.

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▶ Made of granite quarried in Stone Mountain, the a href="https://decaturfirst.org/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Decatur First United Methodist Church chapel was completed in 1899 on the site of a wooden church erected in 1823-26 ("possibly the city of Decatur's oldest public structure"). It remained First Methodist’s primary chapel until 1967, when the present adjacent sanctuary opened. The congregation continued to use the chapel for smaller religious services, special events, weddings, and funerals.

In 2021, the church sold the chapel to law firm Williams Teusink. The law firm restored the chapel, retooling it for use as a community theater and small concert venue, and for educational forums and community gatherings, "respectful of its history as a place of worship." The church retains the use of the chapel on a part-time basis.

The law firm previously won a Historic Preservation Commission design award for their renovation of the High House, built in 1830 and "thought to be DeKalb County’s oldest building and Decatur’s first two-story house."
— Decaturish.
— Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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Three spires in winter,
Limned tall
Under urban solstice.

City of Decatur (Decatur Square), Georgia, USA.
21 December 2024 (6:12 pm ET).

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▶ Photographer's note:
In the foreground, a fanciful city light-pole; in the center, a municipal Christmas tree; in the background, the sunset-lit spire of Decatur Presbyterian Church.

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'X' marks the marsh.
Fallen tree limbs,
Pas de deux.

Beaver 'Pond' in Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve
DeKalb County (Medlock Park), Georgia, USA.
12 December 2024.

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— ISO: 800
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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Senescence of the seasons,
Between autumn and winter.
Fable of entropy.

Medlock Park along the South Peachtree Creek Trail
DeKalb County (Medlock Park ), Georgia, USA.
11 December 2024.

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▶ Photographer's note:
On 12 December 2024, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's daily Explore feature (78th out of 500 chosen).

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Late in afternoon, late in autumn,
Light going down
In golden hour before the dark comes.
One final glorious grasp.

Postal Pond in Decatur Legacy Park
City of Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
26 November 2024 (5:46 pm ET).

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▶ Photo by —and Pic(k) of the Week at— YFGF.
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Like latter-day grandeur,
Balustrade in woodland garden.
November redoubt.

Cator Woolford Gardens
DeKalb County (Druid Hills), Georgia, USA.
13 November 2024.

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Textures of broken bough
And autumn leaf.
Understory motif.

In a woodland, on a slope of...
Arabia Mountain
DeKalb County (Stonecrest), Georgia, USA.
4 October 2024.

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▶ Photographer's note:
No creative rearrangement; photographed as found.

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Autumn leaves
In ephemeral pool.
Small, quiet tableau.

Arabia Mountain
DeKalb County (Stonecrest), Georgia, USA.
20 October 2024.

▶ Notice the small rocks in the pool: granitic scree from the mountain's slopes.

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— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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Among three creeks,
Arboreal arabesque
In autumn woodland.

Melton Park
DeKalb County (Clairmont Heights), Georgia, USA.
31 October 2024.

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▶ The three creeks are Glenn Creek, Burnt Fork Creek, and South Fork Peachtree Creek; the first two are tributaries of the third.

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Jazz is dead?
Wrong!
Jazz...lives!

East Atlanta Strut
Atlanta (East Atlanta Village), Georgia, USA.
28 September 2024.

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▶ Photographer's notes:
☞ To be precise, the placard is not a mistaken musical manifesto but an advert for a concert by an eponymous band that performs jazz-tinged covers of Grateful Dead tunes.

☞ Image taken during the East Atlanta Strut: a street festival "always on the fourth Saturday in September, combining a parade, a street festival with live music, artists' markets, and a 'porchfest' to show off the entire East Atlanta Village neighborhood." More photos: here.

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