I finally finished transcribing an interview with an important former staffer that ran 2.5 hours. Transcription took a week and a half. This particular fellow rarely speaks in complete sentences, and some of his partial-sentences were too inscrutable to record.
I'm excited to move on.
More of this series...including pictures of the Apalachicola River flowing North to Georgia and South to the Gulf of Mexico.
The first quarter of this series of pics is well-lit by the 4:30PM sun. The rest get darker and darker as cloud cover dominated the landscape. To be candid, I couldn't tell you for sure which of these is a torreya tree, but I'm sure I caught one in these slides. I've been looking at images of the tree on a Google Image Search and it doesn't quite mirror the trees I saw.
In any case, the bluff's vista is the highlight.
April showers have begun...
And those same yellow-and-red veins of flowers I found in Gadsden County are in bloom on the Miccosukee Greenway trail outside Tallahassee. I saw another flower variety on an overpass near Interstate-10, on the trail. The soil is damp, the leaves are lush, and raindrops are still on some of the flowers. And bumble bees and bugs.
I made it to Torreya State Park finally and snapped about a hundred pictures before the cloud cover cut the trip short. The mosquiters were out in force. I spotted a nice-sized doe leaping out of the bushes as I climbed down to the riverbanks. On the way back, it was in almost the same place.
The river was quiet and peaceful, except for one motorboat revving back and forth. The highlight was definitely the river vista from the Gregory House front stoop, atop one the highest bluffs in the state.
I couldn't find the ashe magnolia, but I made up for it with a montage of the great Gadsden County roadside wildflowers on the way back. This album focuses on that.
I meandered out to Bradley's Store this afternoon for a large sausage dog with relish, onions, and barbecue sauce. The springtime decorations on Centerville Road these days are as much a treat as that final bend in the road before Bradley's.
There is a flowering vine of some kind on the roadsides that looks like a grape vine but I'm pretty sure it isn't. The flowers are lavender in color.
I've been tempted to bring the camera along but you gotta just soak it up sometimes and forget making that perfectly proportioned shot.
Sometime soon I'm gonna bring my Canon Powershot along for a springtime montage.
I drove out for a while yesterday looking for Torreya State Park so I could snap some sunset shots of the blooming ashe magnolia, torreya trees, Florida yews, etc.
Instead I got lost for a half hour or so near the hamlet of Sycamore. It was pleasant enough driving. Lots of deep red wildflowers on the roadsides.
I'll take lots of photos when I do find the place. This time I am bringing several maps instead of a vague recollection of where the place is. I thought it was closer to Chattahoochee than it actually is.
