Progress on "The New Part" and Just a Nice Day

The railing is going up on The New Part!

I really like how it's looking, with the landscaping, and the gradual slope ...

Obviously, I am very eager to set my size 7 Asics Gels onto this stretch o' pavement.

I couldn't figure out exactly what the big crane was doing, but whatever it was looked impressive. One of the workmen told me that there's to be an "overlook" up there. As you know if you've read previous posts, I've tried to sneak in up there and get a closer look, but the whole area is solidly fenced off right now. When I'm on the treadmill on the second floor of the new Y, though, I'm looking right over at this area. It's a little too far away to see any details, so I guess I've gotta take my binoculars to the Y.

The friendly man below suggested that I might wanna take his photo, and he was right.

The folks who live in the Eagle and Phenix lofts have new furniture on their nice patio that overlooks the Powerhouse ...

Back home at 538 Front Avenue, I spotted a family enjoying some quality time at Gazebo Number 3 ...



Bye-bye, y'all. Come back soon.

Balls on The Chattahoochee

In paying attention to flotsam and jetsam on The River, I thought I'd noted an unusual number of balls. I'm talkin' about basketballs, soccer balls, tennis balls, rubber bouncy balls ... And then one day Fred said something about it, too. Now I have the pictures to prove it.

First, I have to tell you about this strange flotsam phenomenon that allowed me to get these photos. Here we are at the Powerhouse at Eagle and Phenix, and the water is coming through the "stomach" (my term) in an unusual way, creating an unusual current ...
It is very unusual for any flotsam whatsoever to be in this area, but the strange current produced it, I'm figurin' ...
If you look closely at the above photo, you can see a purple ball, over on the right, about halfway up the photo.

In the above photo there are two balls -- the purple one and a blue one right above it.

Here they are from a different angle --


And here, below, is ball number three in this one little pile of floating trash ... (It's blue, too.)



So, in this one little bit of flotsam there were three big balls visible. There might have been more, but we saw at least three. There were tennis balls, too, but I couldn't get a good photo of them.

As Butch Anthony would say, "Makes you wonder."

Some Recent Random Shots, Including a Mysterious Canoe and a Unicycle

First, the water level has finally dropped ...




There are even kayakers in the water. See 'em? (Click on the photo and it'll enlarge.)


We're seeing rocks we haven't seen in months and months.



Lil' Coolpix and I have been enjoying our telephoto lens ...


I'm intrigued by the remnants of an old abandoned sawmill over on the Phenix City side ...

I've been intrigued by that thing for a LONG time, and have had fantasies of turning it into a fish camp. No, I don't really wanna fry fish for a livin' -- but what with things as they with our ol' education system these days ... Okay, let's get back to the Riverwalk --

Spring is beginning to have sprung ...




Folks are out playin' and havin' themselves a good time ...


No, your eyes did not deceive you. That is one wheel.


I even saw one brave turtle on this day. See if you can see him ...
As I passed underneath the Oglethorpe Bridge, I happened to look up ...

and notice that somebody had apparently run a vehicle into the railing! Whoa! That's a long, scary way down! This is where they would've gone ...

My guess is that they didn't run completely off the bridge, or I'd have heard about it.

Here's another mystery -- Over on the Alabama side, down the bank from the abandoned sawmill ... (Thanks to Lil Coolpix and her telephoto lens!)


So I'm standin' over on the Riverwalk on the Georgia, shootin' pictures, when these folks in this motorboat speed by heading north and then do a double-take and come back and make encounter with mysterious canoe-man. There was another canoe-man up in the bushes, but I didn't tell them that.

You know I can't leave without showing you a couple of remainderings ...



I had seen two horses and riders up on Front Avenue, but I hadn't realized that they'd taken a stroll down on the Riverwalk -- till I saw this evidence.