Old Car City is located in the small town of White, Georgia, and is a very unique place. At Old Car City, you will find LOTS of old cars, none more recent than 1970's and many as old as the 1930's! There is also LOTS of rust! At Old Car City, you will find lots of rusty cars (approximately 4000) scattered throughout a wooded lot, a small museum containing the last car purchased by Elvis, and a collection of toy cars and bicycles. They advertise that they are the "world's largest classic car junkyard" and a sign at the front of the junkyard promotes being a "photographers paradise"! Here's the photos from my visit to Old Car City last weekend.
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
Old Car City is located in the small town of White, Georgia, and is a very unique place. At Old Car City, you will find LOTS of old cars, none more recent than 1970's and many as old as the 1930's! There is also LOTS of rust! At Old Car City, you will find lots of rusty cars (approximately 4000) scattered throughout a wooded lot, a small museum containing the last car purchased by Elvis, and a collection of toy cars and bicycles. They advertise that they are the "world's largest classic car junkyard" and a sign at the front of the junkyard promotes being a "photographers paradise"! Here's the photos from my visit to Old Car City last weekend.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
North Carolina Road Trip



A visit to Cataloochee Valley in the far northeast corner of the Smoky Mountains National Park was one of the most interesting and colorful days of our trip. There we found vintage barns, homes, churches and a schoolhouse and elk which have been reintroduced to the valley. The elk were in rut and the stags had their harems surrounding them!

Friday, October 26, 2012
Gibbs Gardens: Summer


State Fair

There's nothing like a state fair for people watching, lots of lights and action, and great photo ops! The lights on the rides make beautiful colorful motion shots. The game booths and merchandise booths are the height of tacky color, but in the night light, they are beautiful! Here are photos of the North Georgia State Fair which happened recently in Cobb County.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Tennessee Farm Trip
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July 4th quilt by Marshall |
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Double Irish Chain by me |
A weekend trip to Tennessee gave me an opportunity to shoot some new quilt photos in a rural setting. My friends, Janie and Larry, live on a farm which has been in Larry's family since the 1800's. The fences and the balcony of their restored home were perfect to hang quilts created by another friend, Marshall, and two of my quilts.
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Marshall's pinwheel quilt hanging on the balcony of Hamilton Hall |
Graffiti Search

Sunday, May 27, 2012
Rural Georgia


Earlier in the day we had photographed one of the many pecan groves along the way. This one was offset from the road and allowed uninterrupted photo time with no cars or houses that we had to shoot around. The morning sun peeked through as we arrived and added drama to the photos.

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Rural Georgia,
Rylander Theatre,
Victorian
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Desoto State Park Wildflowers


However, the 80 degree weather in the South in February and March had forced the wildflowers out of hiding early and we found very few blooms.

Adjacent to Desoto State Park is Little River Canyon, a national preserve and the deepest canyon east of the Mississippi. Here the trail next to the river revealed a few wildflowers, but the best was the beautiful Jack in the Pulpit pictured here.
Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah

Probably the most famous person buried in Bonaventure is Johnny Mercer, composer of hundreds of familiar songs, and his burial site will remind visitors of them for years to come. The bench next to his gravestone lists the most popular of his songs and features his signature. His epitaph is "And the Angels Sing". The epitaph on his wife's grave is "You must of been a beautiful baby", the title of another one of his songs.
I was impressed with the intricate detail of the gates and fencing surrounding many of the graves. Here's just one of the iron gates found there.
And as always, there were lots of angels - sweet, contemplative expressions or fat-cheeked, cherub-like cuties.

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Johnny Mercer,
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
St. Simons Island Sunrise
St. Simons Island is protected by an historic lighthouse which still operates just like St. Augustine. It's not as tall and the staircase is not as scary, but also not quite as picturesque!
After shooting the lighthouse as the sun came up, I went to a beach area a little farther north and shot this silhouette of a weathered tree and the sun behind the clouds. The following morning, I went to the far end of the island and was treated to a beautiful sunrise with billowing clouds and golden reflections. Not far from the beach was the Bloody Marsh, the site of a battle between the Spanish and the English in 1742. The Spanish were trying to reclaim the Georgian colony, but were defeated by the troops of General Oglethorpe never to hold the colony of Georgia again.
One thing that is not over a hundred years old is the new bridge from Jekyll to St. Simons. The structure of the bridge looks like the sails of a boat - very appropriate for an island on the coast of Georgia!


After shooting the lighthouse as the sun came up, I went to a beach area a little farther north and shot this silhouette of a weathered tree and the sun behind the clouds. The following morning, I went to the far end of the island and was treated to a beautiful sunrise with billowing clouds and golden reflections. Not far from the beach was the Bloody Marsh, the site of a battle between the Spanish and the English in 1742. The Spanish were trying to reclaim the Georgian colony, but were defeated by the troops of General Oglethorpe never to hold the colony of Georgia again.
One thing that is not over a hundred years old is the new bridge from Jekyll to St. Simons. The structure of the bridge looks like the sails of a boat - very appropriate for an island on the coast of Georgia!


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Bloody Marsh,
Jekyll Island Bridge,
St. Simons Island,
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Driftwood Beach, Jekyll Island, GA



Christ Church, St. Simons Island


St. Simons Island is draped with as much history as it is Spanish Moss. Driving through the live oak lined roads, you are as likely to see a former slave cabin like Hazel's Cafe as you are to see a beautiful white clapboard church like Christ Church. Christ Church is the former parish of Charles Wesley. His brother, John Wesley, also worked to establish a church for the people of St. Simons and Fort Frederica.
The cemetery next to Christ Church is full of stories and is the final resting place of Eugenia Price who used those stories to write novels about St. Simons Island and Georgia.


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cemetery,
Christ Church,
Eugenia Price,
Frederica,
St. Simons Island
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