A twenty *mumble* *mumble* something year old unrepentant biblioholic...I'm not going to turn thirty in a couple years. Instead I'll go from twenty-nine to twenty-ten. This year is called twenty ten, so there is precedent for the title. Additionally, Bilbo Baggins celebrated an eleventy first birthday, so I think I'd be in good company to use the word for a birthday celebration.
The Creation Museum petting zoo has many different animals, including peacocks. Right now they roam around the property--but thankfully they don't cause as many problems as they used to. One day when we had to park in the back lot I caught this shot while walking towards the building.
The focus on this picture is rather interesting. I like how the non-focused region nicely frames the trees in the center.
In southeastern Georgia, extending along the Florida border, there lies, until recently unheralded and unsung to the outside world, one of the wonder-spots of this great country. The subject of this sketch is what is known on all the maps of the State of Georgia s the "Okefenokee Swamp." This Swamp, if it can rightfully be described as a swamp, covers from 600 to 700 square miles of territory, is 60 miles long and varies in width from 18 to 30 miles, comprising a total area of from 500,000 to 700,000 acres, and lies principally in the counties of Charlton, Ware and Clinch.
This magnificent Swamp, one of the very largest, if not the largest, in the entire United States, is truly a nature-lover's paradise. The scenic beauty and grandeur, with its changing vistas of island, dense bays overgrown with moss-covered trees, open prairies covered with lily-pads of incomparable beauty, lakes--from the miniature pools to the great ponds--infested with alligators, reptiles and fish, giant trees reaching far into the skies, and over all the flitting to and fro of the hundreds of water birds of every species, delights and thrills the heart of any one who has a spark of the artistic in his nature.
The artist can find in this Swamp scenes for masterpieces--from the beautiful to the sombre--for while there are scenes of unsurpassed beauty, there are others dark, dangerous and foreboding. The ornithologist is thrown into an ecstasy of delight, for birds ranging from the majestic whooping crane to the lowly wren, inhabit this swamp, and, too, there are many rare species almost extinct in other sections of the country to be found here. The ivory-bill woodpecker, thought to be wholly extinct, is still to be seen in the heart of this great swamp, and many species of heron, egret, and other plumed birds can be found in numbers. To the hunter of game--those who hunt for the primitive passion of killing--and th those who like to observe and study the wild in its native haunts, it is an enchanting spot, for all the animals native to this section can be found, from the scurrying water-rat to the vicious panther, the amiable bear and the harmless, beautiful deer. The trapper for the fur-bearing animal finds it a most lucrative place to ply his trade, for in the Swamp can be caught otter, raccoon, o'possum, bob-cat, mink, etc., and the lakes and prairies are infested by the alligator.If you are interested in the history of the Okefenokee, and if you like period pieces (this reminds me of historical travelogue videos I've downloaded) then check out this fascinating book.
Location:Sanctuary Pl Dr,Hebron,United States
