I decided to have a little fun with John’s Cellpic Sunday challenge this week. In his post he featured a terrific photo from the Prohibition Museum in Savannah, Georgia.
I have visited this museum twice and have a photo that is similar to John’s photo. I think that John’s is by far superior to mine but I thought it would be interesting to show the way I captured the same subject in 2019 with my IPhone. The only editing I did was a little cropping and converting the photo to black and white for a more vintage look. If you compare my photo to John’s the paper boy looks different.
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 BridgeLion StatueBonaventure CemetaryRiver 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 MarshMany of the trees in my neighborhood are covered with Spanish MossGeorgia 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
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Patti has chosen cityscapes for this challenge. I’m not a city girl. I would much rather be in a small town, out in the country, or exploring nature.
There is one city that is near and dear to my heart and that is Savannah, Georgia. I was born in Savannah (I’m not telling you how many years ago that was) when my father was in the U. S. Air Force stationed at Hunter Air Force Base (now Hunter Army Airfield). We moved away when I was three years old. Many years later my husband’s job brought me back to Savannah. I’ve lived within 20 miles of Savannah for over 40 years.
Savannah is a popular tourist destination with it’s beautiful squares, ancient live oaks dripping with Spanish moss, a picturesque river front, Bonaventure Cemetery, and lots of history. Tourism increased after the release of John Berent’s novel “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”. In Savannah the novel is known as “The Book.” Hollywood discovered Savannah and it has become a popular filming location for movies such as “Forrest Gump”, “Glory”, “The Last Song” and of course the Clint Eastwood directed “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”.
Savannah City HallCathedral of Saint John the Baptist, SavannahOlympic cauldron from 1996 Olympics, Savannah, GeorgiaForsyth Park FountainRiver Street as seen from the Savannah Convention CenterWaving Girl Statue (Florence Martus) beside the Savannah River in Savannah, GeorgiaJohnny Mercer HouseBonaventure Cemetery in the spring
If I had a visitor from another country who wanted to see my home country in a week or a month, where would I take them? This is the challenge Tina has given us.
I live in the United States. Many visitors from other countries are surprised by how huge it is. It would take more than a lifetime to see it all.
Instead, I will take the time we have to see the many beautiful sites in my home state of Georgia. There are mountains, farmland, friendly small towns, the Okefenokee Swamp, historic cities, barrier islands, salt marsh, beaches, lakes, and the city of Atlanta.
I’m not sure we could even cover the entire state in one month but we could give it a good try. We’ll start our tour in coastal Georgia where I live. We would visit at least one of the three inhabited barrier islands that can be reached by road, go on a dolphin tour to look for Atlantic Bottlenose dolphins, walk on an uninhabited island that can only be reached by boat, and take a ferry ride to explore Sapelo Island or Cumberland Island National Seashore. We would catch blue crabs from the local waters and steam them for a delicious meal, snack on boiled peanuts, and feast on low country boil with shrimp fresh from the sea.
Dunes and pier on Tybee Island, GeorgiaSunrise at Driftwood Beach, Jekyll Island, GASt. Simons Lighthouse, GAAtlantic Bottlenose Dolphin near Tybee Island, GeorgiaWe often are the only people on one of the uninhabited barrier islandsNanny Goat Beach, Sapelo Island, GeorgiaFresh Georgia Blue Crabs straight from the creek to the pot.Boiled PeanutsLow Country BoilExploring coastal Georgia
We would visit historic Savannah and enjoy a family style lunch at Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room.
Mercer House, Savannah, GeorgiaWaving Girl Statue and Olympic Cauldron on River Street on the Savannah RiverHistoric stone steps leading to River StreetForsyth Park Fountain, SavannahMrs Wilkes Dining Room
We could take a ride to Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge to see nesting egrets, herons, and woodstorks in the spring. We could continue farther south for a boat ride through the Okefenoke National Wildlife Refuge.
Nesting Wood StorksCypress Trees in the Okefenokee Swamp, GeorgiaAlligator in the Okefenokee SwampGreat Egret with chicks, Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge
We would take a road trip on back country roads to north Georgia. We would stop to explore Athens, the home of the University of Georgia, go to the top of Brasstown Bald, and look for waterfalls. We would pass by fields of cotton, corn, and pecan orchards along the way.
University of Georgia Arch, AthensView from top of Brasstown Bald, the highest point in GeorgiaOne of the waterfalls of Tallulah Gorge
We would take another road trip to see the western part of the state and stop to explore Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain and President F. D. Roosevelt’s Little White House in Warm Springs. We would drive by peach orchards and watch the sunset at one of the many lakes in Georgia.
Callaway Gardens Azalea TrailFDR’s Little White House in Warm Springs, GAPeach County, GeorgiaGeorgia PeachesSunset over Lake Seminole at Eastbank Campground
There is so much more to see in Georgia. Sadly, I don’t have photos of some them. In Atlanta we could see the World of Coca-Cola, the Georgia Aquarium, Centennial Olympic Park, Stone Mountain, the President Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum and the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site. We could visit the Providence Canyon, also called the grand canyon of Georgia in Lumpkin and beautiful Rome in northwest Georgia, and too many more places to name.
I can’t end a post about Georgia without including the University of Georgia Bulldogs football team. Go Dawgs!
Georgia Football Barn Sign, Tennille, GA Dooley Field at Sandford Stadium
For this challenge Patti has asked us to get closer to our subject. We can get closer by moving our feet, using a zoom or macro lens, or cropping.
In honor of yesterday’s 198th Savannah St. Patrick’s Day celebration, the first one since 2019, I’m featuring the Celtic Cross in Savannah, Georgia for this challenge. The header image is the original photo. The next three images show the image cropped in three ways to show details of the different parts of the cross.
Wandering Dawgs 