jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Aug 9, 2013 23:16:42 GMT -5
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 9, 2013 23:22:08 GMT -5
So green! Do you have poison oak back there, James? Or maybe it's poison ivy? We haven't had any rain here since early spring. Everything is brown and dry, fire hazard.
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Post by jamesp on Aug 10, 2013 7:13:09 GMT -5
When people visit from arid western areas they are often surprised by the green Jean. Rainfall is at a high this year. That creek valley
is always green during warm season. The humidity was fogging the camera and the plant life is all humidity lovers like ferns, beeches, wild azalea, poplar, big leaf magnolia. The creek sits between two steep hills creating a gorge, blocking light and airflow allowing large towering oaks to add to the shade and stillness.
Poison Ivy is the most feared evil in the woods.
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Post by Tommy on Aug 10, 2013 9:24:04 GMT -5
Thats just beautiful James!
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Post by jamesp on Aug 10, 2013 11:04:25 GMT -5
Thanks Tommy. When i go out west i get a neck ache looking down ALL the time at rocks.
Can not walk 3 steps w/out picking up a rock.
The foliage is cool but we can't see or rocks.
The fallen trees are due to a toranado. Over 7 years i have cut and heated the house with 3 white oaks and 2 red oaks that fell.
They were 32-38 inches thru at chest level with no limbs for a long ways up. The others are rotting.
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Post by Pat on Aug 10, 2013 17:08:05 GMT -5
Beautiful! Reminds me of western Washington, home of most of my in-laws. I agree that the trouble with all the green beauty is you can't see rocks on the ground.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2013 17:20:45 GMT -5
Nice nature spot. Thanks for sharing. Looks like perfect Hellbender habitat. Just too far south. Must have zillions of frogs and salamanders in those woods.   |
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Post by bhiatt on Aug 10, 2013 17:44:56 GMT -5
nice pics. My kind of place. Id enjoy rooting around them woods.
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Post by panamark on Aug 10, 2013 18:02:24 GMT -5
"This is the ATV trail that goes for miles. No one ever goes back there." That is an oxymorun* around here. The trails are so crowded I don't even hardly ride my dirt bike any more. Oh for a nice lonely single track! * I know this is spelled wrong, but the correct spelling makes my post get deleted, LOL!!!!!  |
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Post by Thunder69 on Aug 10, 2013 21:06:21 GMT -5
JAmes did you hear banjos and fiddles out there...LOL....Nice scenery.....John
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Post by kk on Aug 10, 2013 21:20:26 GMT -5
Great outdoors. Looks like the pictures you see at New Age sites.  Where are the schrooms?  ?? |
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Post by jamesp on Aug 10, 2013 21:35:14 GMT -5
Pat, I am glad you think like that. Ya gotta see the rocks.
I had one of those attached to my trout on a stringer in Hiawassee(GA/NC line) Scott. My Dad and I marveled at that thing.
The creek is full of darters, crayfish and some kind of dinosaur minnow that burries in the sand makes a plecostomus look pretty Brad
It is desolate here 22 miles from downtown Atlanta Mark. A lot due to the airport noise and lack of interstate. It takes hours to get
to the opposite corner of the land block behind the house due to complex trials. Most owned by the bank, and my place is stuck into it.
Thanks John It's the squealing that bothers me. What are they doing back there?
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Post by jamesp on Aug 10, 2013 21:44:49 GMT -5
This band(and brier rabbit) from Eatonton Georgia. Was it written about that giant salamander? 1970's (corny joke haha) |
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Post by jamesp on Aug 10, 2013 22:19:47 GMT -5
More pictures from that walk My cabin  See his little teeth   This is the corner of my and my neighbors farm and the deer go around here. The brush is kept low for a reason.  A tornado passed behind the house about 7 years ago. I burned 5 white/red oaks for 7 years in the woodstove.They were 32-38 inches dia. That's why so many trees are layed over.   Also hunt in that chair. It is on the end of the ridge between the creeks. Oh, chair in upper right corner of photo  Never seen this one. Bream bait city. Not a stinger  Better walk around those   Back to the house. That is the garden shed  My wife's weird garden    |
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Post by herchenx on Aug 10, 2013 22:29:52 GMT -5
you live in a beautiful place.
I grew up in the Appalachians in Pennsylvania and then in Georgia. We lived in College Park for a few years but in the summer and fall I worked in North GA at a camp, not far from Rome.
There is a lot I don't miss about the east, but the woods is one thing I do.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2013 0:20:11 GMT -5
That's a lot of green!
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Post by bhiatt on Aug 11, 2013 2:59:32 GMT -5
guy... sell me your cabin. Ill move there tomorrow. Ill let you visit on the weekends.lol
seriously you are the man.
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Post by jamesp on Aug 11, 2013 8:49:04 GMT -5
I am 12 miles south of College Park John Herchenx. I stay in the woods and away from 'the east' haha
Rome is beautiful. Black and a broad colored jasper is common around Rome. My wife and I have collected
there for many years.
Looking at your marathon trip and photos I see a beautiful place too.
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Post by jamesp on Aug 11, 2013 8:53:07 GMT -5
The old slave quarters are available Brad. Can you play the role.
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Post by Bikerrandy on Aug 11, 2013 15:50:09 GMT -5
That's your place?
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