Photography – Page 88 – Wandering Dawgs

Fresh Crabs for Lunch

November 1, 2015November 18, 2015Posted in Georgia, PhotographyTagged Georgia Blue Crabs, treat, Weekly Photo Challenge17 Comments

Halloween lunch straight from a salt water creek to my boiling pot of water. It doesn’t get any fresher than that.

Fresh Georgia Blue Crabs – Caught, Cleaned, Cooked, and Eaten on Halloween, 2015

This is my contribution to the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Treat

The (Extra) Ordinary Iron Horse

October 20, 2015November 18, 2015Posted in Georgia, PhotographyTagged Athens Georgia, Green County Georgia, Iron Horse, Iron Horse Plant Sciences Farm, roadside attractions, University of Georgia, Weekly Photo Challenge15 Comments

Henry and I have traveled north on Georgia Highway 15 between Greensboro and Athens at least once a year for over 40 years. And for over 40 years, the first one to see the Iron Horse in the middle of a cornfield north of Greensboro shouts “I see the horse”!

When the corn is tall the only part of the horse that is visible is the head. The rest of the year he is easy to spot.

The Iron Horse stands tall in the middle of a cornfield

I love the story about how the horse came to be in that cornfield. The horse was created by Abbott Pattison and was originally placed on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens in 1954. Students frequently vandalized the sculpture so a professor in the agricultural department agreed to set the Iron Horse up in the middle of his cornfield about 20 miles south of Athens.

The Iron Horse is so tall I had to look up to get this photo

The farm today has been renamed the Iron Horse Plant Sciences Farm and is a part of the University of Georgia’s research farmland. The previous owners of the land have retained ownership of the Iron Horse. The University of Georgia granted an easement to the sculpture so people like me could get close enough to admire the horse and take pictures.

This is my contribution to the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: (Extra) Ordinary

This Summer, Every Day Was a Good Day

August 23, 2015Posted in Birds, Georgia, Photography, WildlifeTagged Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin, beach, blue crabs, Ft. Pulaski National Monument, Georgia Railroad Museum, Great Egret, hummingbird, meshphotochallenge, Nature, Roseate Spoonbill, salt marsh, Wordpress Photo Challenge19 Comments

Mona Liza over at The Lowe’s RV Adventures recently asked me if I could name my favorite place. I didn’t have to think very hard to come up with an answer. My favorite place in the world is right here at home in coastal Georgia near Savannah. So this summer we’ve been enjoying a wonderful summer in our home state of Georgia.

The highlight of our summer was having the grandkids come to visit. Going to the beach, going for boat rides, visiting museums, making homemade ice cream, and catching blue crabs were just a few of the things we got to enjoy with them this summer.

We also enjoyed getting together with our friends and neighbors. We celebrated numerous birthdays, watched Fourth of July fireworks, and shared many meals and laughs.

One of the things I love most about where we live is the natural beauty all around us. I never get tired of all the birds and other wildlife we see each day. Throw in a few summer thunderstorms, some beautiful sunsets and a few rainbows and you have a summer full of great days.

I created a Mesh Gallery with a few highlights of the summer using Mesh. I hope you like it.

Every day this summer was a good day. This is my contribution to the WordPress Mesh Photo Challenge: Today Was a Good Day.

Weekly Photo Challenge: On the Way

June 1, 2015June 1, 2015Posted in Photography, Road Trip, RVing, Tourist AttractionsTagged Floyd Country Store, Green Giant Statue, Iowa 80, Lewis and Clark Statue, Sheridan Inn, Spam Museum, Weekly Photo Challenge13 Comments

In May, 2013 we left our home in Georgia to travel by RV to Alaska. On the way across the United States to the Canadian border we stopped at a few tourist attractions.