This week your scrapblog editor took a short trip to Georgia to visit old pal Deb Farley, who lives in Douglasville, near Atlanta. Like all Miller-Farley adventures, this one included lots of walking in the woods, flower-gazing and bird-watching, hobbies we developed way back in 1976 when we worked at Yellowstone National Park. We visited
Callaway Gardens, a huge privately run park in west-central Georgia where the azaleas were jaw-droppingly prolific and beautiful, and in Atlanta,
the Botanical Garden,
the Atlanta Cyclorama and Civil War Museum and historic
Oakland Cemetery. A few snapshots:
Amid the azaleas at Callaway Gardens.
One of the many lakes at Callaway Gardens.
Callaway Gardens' azaleas were at their peak.
These stunning flowers are cultivated, but the park is also full of native saffron and salmon azaleas. (Texas also has many azaleas, some of them in bloom right now in cousin Sandy Turner's Nacogdoches yard.)
At the Botanical Garden in Atlanta, huge hydrangea puffballs hung on arbors everywhere.
The Botanical Garden also has an awesome conservatory with a large area devoted to orchids.
Foxgloves were out almost everywhere we went.
Deb and I amid the flowers.
On rainy Tuesday, we were the only tourists walking in Atlanta's huge, brick-walled historic Oakland Cemetery, and got a terrific history orientation from the caretaker. The cemetery has a large section devoted to the Confederate dead, both known and unknown. Funny how history works -- your scrapblog editor, a Yankee to the core, is also the great-great-great granddaughter of
a Confederate soldier killed in the Civil War.
Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery holds the bones of many prominent Georgians, and many more of common folks. It's an old cemetery, and segregates Jewish and African-American graves, something the caretaker said he's not proud of, but which reflects the history of the time. Here's one of the cemetery's more prominent inhabitants -- pioneering golfer Bobby Jones, whose grave is salted with golfballs admirers have left in tribute.
"Gone With the Wind" author Margaret Mitchell's grave.
Deb is a gourmet cook, and made several excellent, healthy dinners. This one was so pretty I took a picture.
Amid the azaleas at Callaway Gardens.
One of the many lakes at Callaway Gardens.
Callaway Gardens' azaleas were at their peak.
These stunning flowers are cultivated, but the park is also full of native saffron and salmon azaleas. (Texas also has many azaleas, some of them in bloom right now in cousin Sandy Turner's Nacogdoches yard.)
At the Botanical Garden in Atlanta, huge hydrangea puffballs hung on arbors everywhere.
The Botanical Garden also has an awesome conservatory with a large area devoted to orchids.
Foxgloves were out almost everywhere we went.
Deb and I amid the flowers.
On rainy Tuesday, we were the only tourists walking in Atlanta's huge, brick-walled historic Oakland Cemetery, and got a terrific history orientation from the caretaker. The cemetery has a large section devoted to the Confederate dead, both known and unknown. Funny how history works -- your scrapblog editor, a Yankee to the core, is also the great-great-great granddaughter of a Confederate soldier killed in the Civil War.
Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery holds the bones of many prominent Georgians, and many more of common folks. It's an old cemetery, and segregates Jewish and African-American graves, something the caretaker said he's not proud of, but which reflects the history of the time. Here's one of the cemetery's more prominent inhabitants -- pioneering golfer Bobby Jones, whose grave is salted with golfballs admirers have left in tribute.
"Gone With the Wind" author Margaret Mitchell's grave.
Deb is a gourmet cook, and made several excellent, healthy dinners. This one was so pretty I took a picture.
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