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Horned Tree, Lookout Mountain, Georgia. From my

limited-edition book Georgia: a Backroads Portrait

 

I hope you found the series of posts about our 1990 documentation of life in Eastern Europe worth reading; perhaps for some of you who have been following this blog for a while it may even have been worth a second look.

Moving on, we have now been living in our Grand Design fifth-wheel trailer since January 11th. We closed the sale of our home and property on January 19th, and on March 2 Louise had surgery to fuse vertebrae in her neck. Her follow-up visit with the surgeon was Wednesday, and although she still has some pain and soreness, he says her neck is healing very well. Surgery to fuse vertebrae in her lower back will be scheduled in the next few days.

Life is very different for us now, but we greatly enjoy freedom from having a large house and 28 acres to maintain. It was fun as long as we had cattle, but after getting out of the cattle business it became less and less fun. About three years ago we came to the crossover point: we no longer owned the property; the property owned us.

Do we miss life in McLemore Cove? A little, maybe, but not all that much. It's a beautiful place and we had a good life and many friends there. We have lots of pictures (of course), and we're ready to see what's next in our continuing life adventure.

Last week we bought a truck capable of pulling our RV, and after Louise recuperates from the back surgery we plan to begin our travels; first to Florida for a brief stay, and then back to Georgia to work on the second edition of my book Backroads and Byways of Georgia. After that we will probably find a campground around Knoxville until after New Year's, and then to Florida until spring. Then we hope to go to the northwest. That's the plan anyway, but as we all know, "Man plans, God laughs!"

The photo at the top of this post is "Horned Tree." I found it on Lookout Mountain, just above the point where the road goes down into McLemore Cove. As someone has said, I think maybe it was Elliott Erwitt, "The most important ability in photography is the ability to notice things.

Photograph made with Olympus E-PL1 digital camera, 14-42 f3.5-4.5 Zuiko lens.  Photograph and text copyright 2021, David B.Jenkins

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