One step closer to that all-trail bike ride completely around the city! ;-)

The Walgreens store at Five Points in downtown Atlanta, a landmark for its art deco design and iconic Coca-Cola sign on its roof, is expected to close next month.

The Atlanta City Council voted to invest millions in the Atlanta Fire Rescue Department to update its fleet of vehicles and purchase needed equipment.

Outdoor chess tables cast in solid concrete have been added to the pavilion area. Bring your own pieces, or borrow a set from the Brownwood Rec Center.

Local tiny libraries, including many "dark" libraries that don't appear on the official "Little Free Library" registry. Pink Areas = TK

Photographed in the lawns of Ormewood Park.

Believed to be one of the first Kroger grocery stores in Atlanta, this tiny building would barely rank as a convenience store today. Upstairs hosted a Masonic Lodge. Despite the tumultuous economic history of the area, it still stands today and will be preserved and renovated as part of development on this street corner.

I think I missed the best deals by a bit.

If you're not local to the south and 2" long insects fall on you while outside, do not be alarmed. This is not the apocalypse. It is merely raining cicadas. They are harmless to humans, but important part of the food chain. I promise, there are no verified reports of cicadas carrying off people or pets.

As the adults finish mating, they'll lay their eggs and trundle off to die.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, early arrivals from the 2024 brood!

The city & county seems to be learning how valuable these properties are, and that they can be choosy about development requirements and not throwing massive tax breaks at companies that don't need them.

Papilio machaon, a common but impressive native butterfly feeding on Mexican sunflowers in an Ormewood Park garden.

The demolition project is located at the point where three southeast Atlanta neighborhoods—Ormewood Park, Woodland Hills, and Boulevard Heights—converge, between Moreland Avenue and the BeltLine’s Southside Trail corridor.