Stone Mountain Park, Stone Mountain, Georgia
For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. But I tell you that men will have to give account on the Day of Judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. ~ Matthew 12:34-37
You’d think we’d just about seen it all in this area of the country – meaning, the Southeast, but once again, the Lord provided a variety of surprises!
There were still two more trails plus their “songbird habitat” left to visit before we leave tomorrow. We sort of expected them to be a same-old-same-old hikes, mostly because they weren’t very long, but we should know by now that only a very tiny fraction of our activities in the past two years turn out to be same-ole-same-old.
I don’t have any particularly extraordinary stories, but we have some wonderful pictures!
unless they do some grooming!
It was our very first sighting in almost 60 years!
Consequently, you’re going to be blessed with a lot of pictures of them! : )
The leaves remind us of miniature rhododendron leaves.
so we could catalog their humble beginnings.
But this is as close as we got.
Most of it was ‘normal’ stuff,
but we thought the information on this Tiger Swallowtail butterfly was interesting.
The train goes over top of it, but not while we were there.
Now we’ll have to turn around and head back.
Blaine pulled it up on Google Maps and discovered it’s probably about a mile or so long.
We didn’t feel like it, so we didn’t.
And no, I didn’t manipulate the colors!
I wanted to show you how they’ve made this road for cars (far right),
bikes (middle to the left of the double yellow)
and pedestrians (far left).
Plus there’s a sidewalk.
Almost no one uses the sidewalk.
The pedestrians – whether walking or running or pushing a stroller.
We found that odd. There’s nothing wrong with the sidewalk. . . .
I took this while we were driving to the next stop – the songbird habitat.
This could be a black and white picture.
right by where we were walking and spread his wings!
Our question?
Why is there a fence and gate?
It was marked as “house”.
We expected to see something like an abandoned farmhouse.
Nope.
Is it really necessary for a locked gate? Hmmmmm . . . .
That’s the buildings on top of the mountain!
We know nothing about a green heron one. . .
Where in the world did that come from??
Tomorrow we move – from one Stone Mountain to another.