“Your call is very important to us.”
An unusually flooded Lake Allatoona claims a picnic bench normally well-distanced from the water’s edge. A rather on-the-nose metaphor for climate change, no?
Winter’s Edge
Winter is a beautiful time of year. This shot is my first with a macro lens, capturing an ice-covered line swaying in the cold Blue Ridge Mountain wind. Tonks, our border collie who was with me as I explored this part of the Chattahoochee National Forest, certainly didn’t mind the cold wind – in fact, when this was shot she was throwing sticks at my feet for fetch, as per usual.
Standing the test of time
“They don’t make things like they used to!”, our parents would often say right after they broke something due to user error. But in some ways, they were right. This stone chimney is part of Vaughn Cabin of Red Top Mountain State Park in north Georgia, built in the 1860’s and still standing today. This cabin housed the many miners who lived here to product iron – the abundant metal that gives the clay a strong red tint to which the park owes its name.
What’s In A Temple?
Shady Grove is an appropriate name for this old church + cemetery, built in the 1850’s and located in an extremely rural area of the Chattahoochee National Forest. I was compelled to capture this image, but I can assure you I promptly left right after.
The Way Forward
Another personal favorite, this time in a fossil-heavy area of Badlands National Park, South Dakota. The cracked earth formed the shape of an arrow pointing straight ahead – amongst all the surrounding natural history, it felt almost like a sign that said, “we will persist”. I hope you’re correct, little arrow in the ground.
1964
A vintage tractor enjoying its retirement on an apple farm in north Georgia.
Time Window
Another look at the 1860’s Vaughn Cabin in Red Top Mountain State Park. How many people have looked out this window over the decades? What have they seen?
“…but it’s honest work.”
In a world of fast fashion, mass production and extreme waste, I very much appreciate handmade goods built to last. I respect those that work with their minds and hands in tandem. Larger companies like Helle, still making knives by hand in the same small Norwegian village since 1932. And smaller companies like Whiskey Leatherworks, making handcrafted leather goods in Montana. If we raise the standard of what we make and get away from our “throwaway and replace” culture, we will lessen the need to produce in general, which means less energy and waste.
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