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Monday, May 6, 2013

Diego Pond - A Great Birding Trail

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I hiked 5 miles round trip to Diego Pond at Guana River Wildlife Management Area.  The pond is known for the vast number of bird sp...
Saturday, May 4, 2013

The Enchanted River at Mirkwood Forest

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  Crisco Bridge   It is a 3 mile hike on the Bulow Creek Loop down a forest path to Cisco Bridge. The forest path is filled with ...

Trail Through "Mirkwood Forest"

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 The White Trial at Guana River Park    The trail pictures above are from the White Trail at Guana River. I could not help but ...
Friday, May 3, 2013

"Clouds that Gather Round the Setting Sun"

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Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood By William Wadsworth (1770 – 1850)   THERE was a time when meadow, ...

Bulow Creek - Hiking Red Trail

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    The Red Trail at Bulow State Park has some gorgeous scenery of the marsh and creek.  It was one of the most picturesque trai...
Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Pine Mountain Valley - Early Spring

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    Early Spring Once more the Heavenly Power Makes all things new, And domes the red-plowed hills With loving blue; The blackbi...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

The Fairchild Oak

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    THE FAIRCHILD OAK The Fairchild Oak is one of the largest Live Oak trees in the south. The tree has stood ...
Saturday, April 27, 2013

'Because I could not stop for Death' by Emily Dickinson

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Because I could not stop for Death Because I could not stop for Death-- He kindly stopped for me-- The Carriage held but just ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Green Land Feathers

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  White Trail has a lot of bridges to help hikers cross the salt marsh and swamp areas on the trail.  There is a lot of wet land at ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

'Song for the Sea'

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    Song for the Sea by J.R.R. Tolkien To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white...

'The Road Goes Ever On' - Fort Frederica

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Fort Frederica National Monument, on St. Simons Island, Georgia represents the struggle between Great Britain and Spain for domina...

'Journey's End' at Providence Canyon

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            Journey's End by J. R. R. Tolkien   In western lands beneath the Sun The flowers may rise in Spring...

Beorn's Song Shadow Mountain

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  Sung by Beorn The wind was on the withered heath, but in the forest sirred no leaf: there shadows lay by night and day, and ...

Smoky "Misty" Mountains

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    Far Over the Misty Mountains By J.R.R. Tolkien    Far over the misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caver...

'All Woods Must Fail'

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    All Woods Must Fail by J.R.R. Tolkien O! Wanderers in the shadowed land Despair not! For though dark they stand, All woo...

"Not all Those Who Wander are Lost" - The Riddle of Strider

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  The Riddle of Strider   All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does no...

Dowdell's Knob Overlook

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  The panoramic view is from  Dowdell's Knob on top of Pine Mountain.  These images were taken in March when the trees were just...