This little shed made of pine logs stood about 25 yards to the left of the old Hicks house pictured in my previous post. It was winter when I made the photograph, probably while I was out tending my cattle, and morning fog filled the valley of Chickamauga Creek. The dark mass beyond the fog is Pigeon Mountain, which forms one side of McLemore Cove. ("Cove" is a southern mountain term for a valley enclosed on three or four sides by mountains.) The other side is Lookout Mountain, famous for "See Rock City." Lookout and Pigeon come together at the south end of the Cove, with Daugherty Gap Road winding its way around four hairpin curves to the top of the mountain. It was a remote and beautiful place when we came to live there, and while not now quite so remote, is still very beautiful.
We were privileged to live in McLemore Cove and enjoy its beauty in all seasons for 33 years.
The photograph was made in the early 1990s with an Olympus OM camera and Fuji slide film.
Photograph and text copyright 2022, David B.Jenkins.
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My book, Backroads and Byways of Georgia, is now out of print, although copies are apparently still available from Amazon, and possibly other sources. The second edition is now in the editing stage and is scheduled to be released in December.
Dave, I like the loneliness that this photo invokes, is the shed still standing? Your family was truly blessed to have lived in such a beautiful place.
ReplyDeleteIt’s beautiful in a stark sorta way
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Thanks, Greg and Roy. The old shed is gone now. I kept my rototiller in it for years.
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