Taking A Walk

by Dwayne Phillips

Today I walked through Rising Fawn, Georgia – great name for a little town. Once again, no rain. The temperature started at 75 and ended at 85 with clouds in the morning and afternoon and sun most of the day. Again, the humidity was about 300%. I covered 15 miles today.

I exited Georgia and entered Alabama. I should be in Alabama for 2 1/2 to 3 weeks. I am still in a valley. I guess this is still the Lookout Valley, and it still reminds me a lot of the Shenandoah.

Rising Fawn, Georgia is a small town with three churches, a few restaurants, and such. I put a photo of its Post Office on its Wikipedia page. The town has a feed store with a bench in front of it. When I walked by, there were four old men in overalls sitting on the bench. Above the bench was a sign labeled “Information Center.” You can’t make up things like this.

Entering Alabama. I didn

An Ant Hill in Alabama

Here is a picture of an ant hill next to my shoe. While walking on the side of the road, I frequently have to step off the road into the grass while cars pass. A new obstacle the past two days are the ant hills. They are everywhere. I have been fortunate so far in that I have not stepped in any and had a million ants on me. I don’t know what kind or color of ants these are, and that ignorance is okay with me.

I crossed half a dozen creeks today. This photo shows one of them. Given all the rain in this area, all the creeks are flowing briskly. If you look closely at the tree in the photo, you can see a high-water mark on it that is about three feet higher than the water in the photo. They had a lot of rain here.

A shed with advertisements

One final photo from the road today. This is a shed – not a barn. You can gain an appreciation of the scale by noting the two doors. These are regular doors. This little shed has more advertisements per square foot than any I have seen. The Rock City ad is on the south side of the roof so that people heading towards Chattanooga will see it.