Fall at the Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve

Have you visited lately? What was once boot-worthy mud zones is now beautifully decked. 

The Road goes ever on and on

Down from the door where it began.

Now far ahead the Road has gone,

And I must follow, if I can,

Pursuing it with eager feet,

Until it joins some larger way

Where many paths and errands meet.

And whither then? I cannot say.

                                                   -J. R. R. Tolkien, channeling Bilbo Baggins

Click to enlarge. Panoramic-ish view of where many paths and errands meet...

Around the neighborhood [Nov 18]

Never mind the raking for a minute, because they sure look pretty this time of year!

Elections: Vote on November 6

Image courtesy of North DeKalb Mall's Scarecrow Exhibit,
running through Nov. 5.

Always vote for principle, 

though you may vote alone, 

and you may cherish the sweetest reflection 

that your vote is never lost.  

                                 - John Quincy Adams

From the GA Secretary of State's Office:

- info on voting on election day

- your ballot

- our polling place is

NORTH DECATUR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

611 MEDLOCK ROAD

DECATUR, GA 30033 

Election Day precinct hours are 7:00 am - 7:00 pm

Around the neighborhood

Ducks @ South Peachtree Creek

Not in my backyard!

Winged migration.

Bye-bye,  October.

ICS United Nations Day 2012 [Nov 2]

Drummers let the way...

And the nations followed.

And followed! As the leading edge of the parade reached Medlock Road,
the rest of the delegation progressed around  the front and side of the school.
Click to enlarge.

Atlanta Gas Light Update

Atlanta Gas Light (AGL) representatives attended the MANA community meeting last week. They distributed information about the project [similar to the information they asked MANA to distribute last September] and noted that the Wood Trail Lane worksite is wrapping things up. True to their word...

Atlanta Gas Light site on Wood Trail Lane: most equipment is now gone.

Several audience members asked about repairs to North Decatur Road--will plates be removed, will the road be repaved? AGL representative Zach said N. Decatur Road areas affected by AGL's work will be "repaved by Christmas" and asked neighbors to call the hotline at 404-584-3039 if they have concerns about AGL's work on particular stretch of road.

View of work site on the other side of the creek (behind above view).

ICS United Nations Day [Nov 2]

via ICS...

Join the International Community School for UN Day on November 2!

Please join the International Community School in celebrating the rich diversity of culture and traditions in our student body and faculty at our annual UN Day event on November 2nd.  Watch the "Parade of Nations", where our children show their pride in their heritage and dress in the traditional costumes of their home countries, followed by a themed Assembly with song, poetry, and a reading of the declaration of UN Day.

The parade will depart from ICS at 9:15 a.m. and loop through the Medlock neighborhood, with the assembly beginning at 9:45 a.m. Please join other friends of ICS at †9 a.m. in our Library and Media Center for coffee and light refreshments, and be there to greet the children as they enter the Cafetorium for the assembly.

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Update: photos of the parade