Stone Mountain - April 10, 2012

Richard and I took a day off and since it was a beautiful blue sky kind of day, we went to Stone Mountain.   It was lovely, just a quiet Tuesday and very few people around.    Peaceful bliss.

From here, you would never know how many cars are bustling around busy, busy highways around Atlanta.  You can only see the high buildings.

This is 87 steps from the bottom to the top of this railing.  Very careful mountain-goat steps, I call them!

This area is usually packed with people that have come up on the cable cars...this day, hardly anyone.

No matter what, Richard always wants to bring that backpack with a cup of coffee. And you know he's got some chocolate too!

The turkey vultures were circling lazily overhead but I think Richard got a shot of some hawks flying over the lake.

 I asked the skywriter to write  "I heart u " in the sky, but Richard JUST missed it.  Sorry!

 Remember the bright red diamorpha on Arabia Mountain? This is the same red diamorpha but with the white flowers blooming on it, most of this had bloomed out, but this was at the very base of Stone Mountain, in a shady spot.

 Love this photo that I took of Richard.  We were under the most beautiful pale green leaves and he thinks he left this on the wrong setting, but I love all the green around him, lit up by the budding green leaves, just like a true gardener should be!  (And I wish that people wouldn't carve their names into trees, that was a very big tree behind him.)

 This is the photo of the tree that I had on an earlier post, but Richard always takes a more artistic photo than I do!  And Scriptor Senex, I think you are right, I think it might be an ash tree!

 The sun really lit up this trail through the wood here, but the mountain laurel was so white and beautiful!

You see, I promised you a blue sky day, didn't I?

 That really big tree from earlier?  That is the tree on the right with the big hole in the base, I could fit inside the space of that tree!

Oh my, Richard got me looking at the very tip top of this tree.  It's a wonder, I didn't fall over backward.  It is a very tall tree.  Many of these at Stone Mountain are some of the biggest that I have ever seen in the whole state of Georgia.  They are all beautiful to see at any season of the year.  Hope you enjoyed this walk in April!