For the second week in a row, I’m going marveling instead of moaning this Monday morning!
Why? Because our little potted Japanese Maple just outside our door has finally stopped being so stubborn and admitted that it is autumn.
Thank You!
(It’s about time.)
For this blog category, “Countdown to Christmas: Our Travel Tree & Georgia State Parks,” each day between December 1 and 25, I take a pic of a state park ornament on our Travel Tree and briefly highlight that park.
High Falls State Park is a naturally beautiful oasis along the Towaliga River just off I-75 between Macon and Atlanta, near Jackson, Georgia.
The water was a bit muddy the day we visited. (But then again, I’m a bit muddy some days as well.)
Here’s a one-minute “meditation” (we’ll call it). Close your eyes and listen to the cleansing sounds of nature …
Moving Peace.
At one point I paused by the water and chatted with … an animal. It looked like a camel. I think it was a camel.
See? Don’t you agree?
It never answered back. And Robert would have no part of it.
High Falls was just a short stopover on our way home from Atlanta, so we want to go back for a longer trek one of these days.
(I hope the camel will still be there. Robert assured me, with a bit of an attitude, that it “wood” still be there.)
Well before the pandemic, Robert and I had started exploring our state’s 48 State Parks and 16 Historic Sites. Georgia has an absolutely dizzying array of parks, from the North Georgia mountains, to the piedmont, on down to the coastal plain, where we live in Savannah.
After months waiting out the pandemic, and coming down with severe house-stir-craziness, we decided to venture out again … experimentally.
What a glorious time we had, getting reacquainted with or being introduced to our state’s natural splendors.
We would reserve a cabin for a Monday and stay several days before the weekend traffic arrived.
Oh, btw, here’s our nerdy state park magnet board …
Now that December is here, and we are on our Countdown to Christmas, Robert and I have put up our Travel Tree. What’s a Travel Tree, you ask? It’s a Christmas tree, with each ornament from one of our travels over the years.
For this new blog category, “Countdown to Christmas: Our Travel Tree & Georgia State Parks,” I plan to briefly highlight one aspect of a different Georgia State Park each day till the Big Day.
Starting with one of our favorite, Tugaloo State Park, way up in Northeast Georgia near Lavinia.
Perhaps our greatest joy about this park was our very own private dock down the hill from our cabin. The dock extended out onto beautiful Lake Hartwell on the South Carolina border.
And here’s an absolutely pitiful pic (thankfully dark) of me shivering in the morning cold with my coffee.
And here’s one of Robert, inexplicably taking a picture of my coffee.
State Park Happiness!
Joyful First Day of Countdown to You!
DragonFLY!
Here’s a little flower to brighten your weekend …
Biking
{No words, well, other than these. Just a Single Sunday Snapshot.}
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