The Chattahoochee Trail
by Ruby Hawk on 16/05/09 at 6:00 am
The Chattahoochee trail is our favorite place to walk. It’s green, it’s beautiful and it’s along the river.
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We are avid walkers on the Chattahoochee trail in the fall and spring. We go ocassionally on good days in winter and summer but in cool seasons we really love it. The trail is about three miles along the river and circles back through the woods. We see people walking their dogs, strolling, and jogging. Sometimes couples looking for privacy. Fern grows throughout the woods and we cross several streams with minnows and fish. A natural swamp is a good resting place for wild ducks and geese. They are a splendid sight with all their different colors. Sometimes we see beavers in the swamp and cranes on the river. A morning or afternoon walk in these woods and fields along the river are refreshment for mind and body.
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Wild honeysuckles are blooming and climbing all over the bushes and brambles. Did anyone sip honeysuckle nectar as a child? I had to pull off a few stems and refresh my memony. It still tastes just as sweet.
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Blackberries were blooming and I could see some tiny green berries beginning to take form. The last week in June I will take a couple of buckets and pick these juicy berries to make a pie and put up the rest for pies later on. If I am not too lazy I will go pick more before the berries are gone.
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We saw this crane on the river. He looked lonely as if he were waiting for another crane to join him. He didn’t seem to be in any hurry and we left him in peace to his waiting.
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These yellow wild flowers are outstanding this year. The field is a mass of yellow and from a distance it looks like a thick fluffy yellow sheet laying across the field.
I enjoyed our walk yesterday and I hope you enjoyed strolling along with me as I replayed it today. I wish you many enyoyable walks along your rivers and fields and may the sun shine brightly on us all.
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Frances Stanford
May 16th, 2009
What a delightful place to walk and experience the joys of nature!
OhSugar
May 16th, 2009
Great pictures. I can see why it would be a favorite placc to walk, it seems peaceful.
Christine Ramsay
May 16th, 2009
I did enjoy your stroll. I have just come back from a four mile harbour and beach walk wwhich I try to do several times a week to help lose this weight. There is nothing like a good walk for relieving stress, which I am sure your river one does too. A nice article.
Christine
Mr Ghaz
May 16th, 2009
Excellent!..Thats really wonderful and well presented piece..nice pics too. LOV it..well done and thanks for sharing this great stuff.article
Darla Cooke
May 16th, 2009
I enjoyed the stroll very much and the pictures are beautiful! Thanks for the wonderful experience.
Joe Dorish
May 16th, 2009
Beautiful place
Brenda Nelson
May 16th, 2009
Ruby that looks beautiful, what a great place for a stroll!
Mark Gordon Brown
May 16th, 2009
Very good use of your own photos, our trees are just budding here, we are about 2-3 weeks behind normal. Its rather depressing.
Phill Senters
May 16th, 2009
Thank you for a very nice stroll Ruby, and all those beautiful pictures as well.
Melody SJAL
May 16th, 2009
What a lovely place. Thanks for a pleasant walk.
R.B. Parsley
May 16th, 2009
Ruby,
Send me directions to your house so I can go on this walk too! LOL
It looks like a very beautiful place. My place for getting my mind aired out is ManLove Park. Its about seven miles from where I live. I go their quite a bit during the summer.Its very quiet, and it gets my creative juices flowing again. You did a great job taking the pictures. I felt like I was on this walk with you. Excellent writing too!!! Keep up the great work Ruby!!!
Randy
Jenny Heart
May 16th, 2009
Perfect article pictures and all. Thanks for taking me on this beautiful walk with you. The honeysuckel picture is my favorite.
chris73
May 16th, 2009
Thanks for the ride
Countrymom
May 16th, 2009
Gorgeous! How do I get there?
Sheila M
May 16th, 2009
I love being outside…this looks like a beautiful place! Reminds me of the Alan Jackson song….thanks for sharing this beautiful piece=)
Annie Hintsala
May 16th, 2009
What lovely pictures. I like honeysuckle too, we have some growing on our property. It looks to be a lovely walk.
Judy Sheldon
May 16th, 2009
Ruby, thanks for the refreshing walk. It was so lovely.
ateln Hoover
May 16th, 2009
Ruby
You are so blessed to have such a lovely place to walk.
Enjoy going with you this time.
Joie Schmidt
May 16th, 2009
I love it!! What a heavenly place to visit!*
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
Daisy Peasblossom
May 16th, 2009
Beautiful walk! I could almost smell the honeysuckle. I think the crane might have been waiting for his dinner.
Ruby Hawk
May 16th, 2009
Thank you my friends, and Christine good for you. I don’t know if we walk 4 miles but it’s a good walk for us. It’s so much better than the treadmill. That is so boring it’s hard to stay with it an hour.
Thanks for your comments and interest.I try to have my camera with me but sometimes I miss the very best pictures anyway. I hope everyone enjoys many good nature walks throughout the summer.
Randy its good go see you back.You were missed and you can come walk with me anytime.
Betty Carew
May 16th, 2009
Thank you for this wonderful walk Ruby. The pics are stunning as well as peaceful. Great article
Jo Oliver
May 16th, 2009
looks like a truly beautiful place.
PR Mace
May 17th, 2009
Thanks for my peacefull walk along the river. I remember sucking on honeysuckle as a child and I picked many many blackberries.
Kate Smedley
May 17th, 2009
What a wonderful place to walk, lovely pictures, thanks for sharing Ruby.
Duff D Moss
May 17th, 2009
Little slice of heaven there. Awesome!
ken bultman
May 19th, 2009
Don’t you just feel sorry for mall walkers? Great job.
Chris Stonecipher
May 20th, 2009
Ruby,
I am on a mission to find interesting articles of my friends to add to my Chris Stonecipher and Friends blog. I just found one here. thanks
Chris
CutestPrincess
Jun 6th, 2009
wonderful… and the photo are totally great! loved it!