Author: Wandering Dawgs

Happily married 55 years, retired baby boomer, mother of 2, grandmother of 4, traveler, Georgia Bulldog fan, Air Force Brat, avid reader, amateur photographer, gardener, ovarian cancer survivor, blogger. Every day is a gift!

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #366 – City Mouse/Country Mouse

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Tina’s challenge is City Mouse/Country Mouse. Her challenge is based on the “classic Aesop fable “City Mouse/Country Mouse”. If you’re unfamiliar with the story, its moral is that no matter how appealing someone else’s life may seem, there really is no place like home.”

Full disclosure: I am a country mouse. The closest I ever got to big city life was living in the Atlanta suburbs when I was first married in the early 1970’s. I rode the bus to work in downtown Atlanta. Even though the city wasn’t as big then as it is today I had my fill of big city living. I was thrilled when my husband’s job required a move to coastal Georgia.

Technically, where I live in coastal Georgia isn’t in the country. It’s not really even a suburb. I live in a small neighborhood with only two streets and friendly neighbors. I enjoy the peace and quiet that comes with being surrounded by nature. I also enjoy being a short ride from the Atlantic Ocean where I can see sunrises like the one in my featured image.

The nearest city is Savannah. Savannah was founded in 1733 and was Georgia’s first planned city. Today the population is around 148,000 and it has become a popular tourist destination. I enjoy an occasional trip to downtown Savannah to be a tourist for a day.

Talmadge Bridge
Lion Statue
Bonaventure Cemetary
River Street

My home is located about 30 minutes from downtown Savannah and a short drive to the Atlantic Ocean. When I am home I am surrounded by the beauty and quiet of the salt marsh and salt water creeks and rivers.

Early Morning Salt Marsh

Many of the trees in my neighborhood are covered with Spanish Moss

Georgia Salt Marsh

During our travels we have visited big cities like New York City, San Diego, Dublin, Glasgow and Edinborough. They were fun to see but my favorite places were all the small towns and rural areas. When we are on a road trip we go out of our way to avoid the traffic of the big cities. As much as I love travel, I am always happy when we cross the last bridge across the marsh on the way home. As Dorothy said in the Wizard of Oz, “There’s no place like home.”

Thank you to everyone who responded to Egidio’s wonderful Longing challenge last week. Be sure to check back on Saturday, September 27 at noon Eastern Time when Joanne of Joanne Mason Photography will be our guest host..

I hope you will join in for this week’s challenge. Be sure to tag your post with Lens-Artists and include a link back to Tina’s post Lens-Artists #356 – City Mouse/Country Mouse

For information on how to join the Len-Artists challenge please click here.

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Sunday Stills – Fountains and Falls

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Terri’s latest Sunday Stills challenge is fountains and falls. The featured image is the Forsyth Park Fountain in Savannah, Georgia. The rest of my images are waterfalls from around the United States.

I’ll start with three different Bridal Veil Falls

Bridal Veil Falls, Keystone Canyon, Valdez, Alaska
Bridal Veil Falls Nantahala National Forest, North Carolina
Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite National Park, California

Here’s three from in and around Yellowstone National Park

Lower Yellowstone Falls in Yellowstone National Park
Waterfall along Yellowstone Lower Loop Road
Upper Mesa Falls, Idaho

There are beautiful waterfalls in the north Georgi mountains. Here are three of them.

L’Eau d’Or Falls in Tallulah Gorge
Ada-Hi Falls in Black Rock Mountain State Park
Amacalola Falls, Georgia

Many thanks to Terri for taking us on a trip around Yellowstone National Park with her Sunday Stills challenge Fountains and Falls

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Roseate Spoonbills in the Neighborhood

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I was getting ready to make a trip to the grocery store yesterday when one of my friends texted me to let me know there were Roseate Spoonbills in some trees by the side of the road on the way out of our neighborhood.

I grabbed my camera and my telephoto lens before I left home and hoped the birds would still be there. Lucky me! Two of them were still still around.

Roseate Spoonbill

Roseate Spoonbill

It’s always a special treat to see these pink beauties here in coastal Georgia. I’m grateful to my friend who let me know where they were.

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