From the City of Decatur’s website…

When making plans for a live Christmas tree, please consider the official “Bring One for the Chipper” event on Saturday, Jan. 8. Residents can drop off live Christmas trees at the Christmas Tree Recycling Center in the Agnes Scott parking lot. The entrance is between 184 and 206 S. Candler St.

The recycling center will be open Thursday, Dec. 30, through Saturday, Jan. 8.

Please do not leave trees anywhere else on the Agnes Scott campus.

The parking lot entrance is sorta hidden, so here’s the Google Streetview to get you acquainted, just in case your a Decatur tree-recycling virgin.

I was aware that the glass tower atop Fire Station #2 in Oakhurst had solar panels on it, but I certainly didn’t know this fun-fact.

From the Fire Station #2 Fact Sheet…

The Fire Station No. 2 Tower

A society that values sustainability will have a strong sense of its dependence on the planet Earth

The glass tower at Fire Station No. 2 is a ‘sun-tracker’. The blue color band and the red ‘2’ that can be seen moving across the glass of the tower are both created by the sun passing through colored glass mounted on the tower.

The blue band is the tower’s ‘gnomon’. A gnomon is traditionally the raised triangle on a sun dial that casts a shadow to tell the time and day. The red ‘2’, of course, represents the name of the Fire Station. The sun to the south of the tower strikes these stained glass surfaces and projects their color onto the face of the white glass. Each hour of the day and each day of the year the blue band and color red glass will demonstrate the height and angle of the most important star.

Cool!