Catchin' Up with the Riverwalk

No, I have not forgotten The Riverwalk. I've been a-walkin' and a-walkin' -- and takin' a photo or two -- I just haven't had time to make blog entries. But today I found a little time, so here's a "catchin' up" entry:

Spring has sprung! Look at good ol' Gimp Tree Number One:


Let's back up a minute and see how she looked just a few weeks ago ...


And here's Gimp Tree Number Two, not even lookin' so gimpy any more ...


Now I'm just gonna throw at ya some random shots from the past few weeks.


I overheard folks in this party say that they were celebrating their wedding anniversary on the Riverwalk, because they'd gotten married in this very spot x number of years ago. (Sorry. I forgot the number.)

Personally, those Segway things don't look like fun to me -- but I've never tried 'em, so ...


An interesting place to picnic, I thought ...










This good citizen was picking up trash along the riverbank ...




Those benches on the new part, still fenced off, are patiently waitin' for me.






What in the world was that pick-up truck doin' over on the Phenix City Riverwalk?










Good citizen Mr. McMinn, aka "Tricycle Man," cleaning up some broken glass on The Riverwalk.

One interesting thing that you can see only when the water is low is a number of various springs that feed into the River. When the water is high they're invisible because they're under water.


I'm fascinated with the ruins of an old sawmill over on the Phenix City side, near the Oglethorpe Bridge.

A mulberry tree near the Promenade Amphitheatre is LOADED with green mulberries. Well, it WAS loaded; it's shedding lots of 'em ...


Fishing line on the grass looked almost like some strange plant ...

This man turned and waved at me. I was so busy waving back that I didn't get a photo ...


Who are these two geezers walkin' along and talkin' so much trash?


Since these two objects, above and below, are color coordinated, I wondered if the same baby dropped both of 'em.






Okay, I don't think I've mentioned earlier that this very flower is pretty much what started the whole Chattahoochee Riverwalk Blog. What happened is that last year, right after we moved here to Front Avenue and The Riverwalk, on one of my very first walks after our move, I spotted, WAY UP UNDER some shrubs near The Promenade Amphitheatre, a small colony of this little blooming flower. I came home, looked them up, and could not for the life of me figure out what they were. Well, here they are again, this year, and I got some photos, and I got Fred in on the quest, and the BOTH of us can't figure out what they are. We're about to decide that they're some sort of tulip-gone-rogue. Yes, I know they look like lilies, but there are things about them that are not lily-like. They are beautiful, though, yes? They last for only a few days, and then they're gone.



I love this shadow that the Christopher Columbus sculpture makes. In fact, I love the shadow a WHOLE lot more than I like that freakin' sculpture, which I may write more about later ...


I love how the girl is executed in pink and the boy in blue ...
Like I said -- Spring has sprung!

Till next time ...

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."