ABC Wednesday: G is for guessing game

My guess from a distance was that the neighborhood children had drawn a hopscotch board on the sidewalk for a hopping game.

When I got closer I wasn't sure what the game was but it definitely wasn't hopscotch.

The first two shots are from last week and are only a small portion of the drawings I spotted along the sidewalk.

The third through last shots were taken this Monday and this group looked like perhaps they were playing a safety game.

The children and parents weren't outside when I spotted these sidewalk games so your guess is as good as mine as to what game, if any, they were playing.

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ABC Wednesday: G is for gossamer

The dragonfly has gossamer wings.

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ABC Wednesday: G is for Globe

Raleigh, NC has a gigantic globe as part of the downtown Nature Research Center.

The globe is named the Daily Planet.

The continents are made of satellite pictures.

The globe is three stories high and inside the globe is audience seating and a 40 by 40 foot HD screen which scientists can use for special presentations. Click for the home of ABC Wednesday.  

ABC Wednesday: G is for gray grey

Depending on where you live you might spell it grey or gray. I go back and forth with my grey gray spelling.

Gray doesn't have to be grim.

Gray can hold a glimmer of light.

Garrulous geese can glide.

A solitary goose can gesticulate with its expressive head.

A giant great blue heron towers over the ducks.

On a grey morning two exercisers are pulling on a rope of some kind.

Gray can be gorgeous with its varied tones.

I caught a glimpse of another great blue heron.

Glowing grey water.

The glow grows in the grey.

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ABC Wednesday: G is for glow

Guess what happened on Saturday night. A ghostly ghoul played with the glowing moon and tossed it in a great pattern on the sky.

After the ghost retreated the moon settled down into a muted glow.

On Sunday night the glowing moon was joined by the slight glimmer of a glowing star.

Last is another shot of the glowing moon on Sunday night.

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ABC Wednesday: G is for Grey

Grey can be gorgeous if you ask me.

A gaggle of garrulous geese on a grey lake can be great.

The water is turning amber as the sun comes up but the Canadian Geese are there for the letter G.

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ABC Wednesday: G is for geese gulls goons

A gaggle of geese and gulls are harassed by wee ghastly goons.

A gray goose (right hand side below) rises to its full height and becomes garrulous with its great groans and gesticulates at wee goon.

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Disclaimer - I'm writing from the perspective of the animals being chased which is silly, of course, but from my perspective I'm sure the children are sweet little darlings. To tell you the truth, my biggest concern is the children will hurt themselves running with sticks. I have complete confidence in the geese and gulls ability to fend for themselves.

ABC Wednesday: G is for Gate

Graceful gates galore grow upward at the NC Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill.

Gorgeous gliders top the garden gate below to guard the greenhouse which growers use in the botanical garden.

Green grassy gate greets the visitors to the botanical garden.

Grand Guady gate glows in front of the Colonial Governor's Palace in Colonial Williamsburg, VA.

Grim soldiers guard the gate leading into the Colonial Capitol in Williamsburg, VA.

Gracious gentlewomen allow you to gain entrance, to one of the many town houses, through the white picket gate.

You can stroll through the garden at another colonial house and enter via the gate.

There are such a generous supply of gates in Colonial Williamsburg that I'll stop with one last substantial gate which leads to a carriage house which surely has a groom or two.

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