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From the top of Cheaha Mountain in Talladega,Alabama,USA. Elevation 2,413 ft.at the highest point. Cheaha is one of the final segments of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
This is about a 90 minute drive from where we live,and only cost us the gas,and supper.
This is a manmade waterfall along the Cheaha Loop Drive near the main lodge. I'm typically not a fan of manmade falls, but this one blends in so well.
I went to the Cheaha area and visited a falls I haven't been to in a long time. High Falls is a beautiful place.
This is probably my favorite spot along the Chinnabee Silent Trail near Mt. Cheaha. There are some more dramatic falls, but none more intimate. Please view in the lightbox.
Explore #7
May 2, 2012
NS train #340 climbs Cheaha Mountain in eastern Alabama not long after dawn behind the normal KCS power.
This image deeply reminds me of Lord of Rings and the adventures they went on to destroy the one ring...... Adventures often aren't pleasant, but they do change and grow us to become the people God intend us to be
For our Joy and the Glory of Jesus, through whom all things were made (1 Thessalonians 5:16 & John 1:3)
It was a weird day. It would rain one minute, the sun would come out, then clouds would move in and the wind blew so hard I could hardly hold my camera, muchless put it on a tripod. Then as we were leaving we saw the rainbow. Just a buffet of weather conditions.
This was one of the dark cloudy moments in between rain.
This is obviously a manmade waterfall. It flows out of a small pond inside the park and makes for a beautiful photo setting. The fog didn't hurt either.
We hiked the Chinnabee Silent Trail to Cheaha Falls. The water level was very low. I saw a large cottonmouth snake below the falls. Here is an image on Flickr of the falls at high water: www.flickr.com/photos/michaelcallahanphotography/2390359495/
My favorite Psalm about trees and creation, Psalm 96
11 Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;
let the sea resound, and all that is in it.
12 Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them;
let all the trees of the forest sing for joy.
13 Let all creation rejoice before the LORD, for he comes,
he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness
and the peoples in his faithfulness.
A view from atop Cheaha Mountain in Cheaha State Park, Alabama.
My wife & I are staying here for a few nights. I am trying for some sunsets & hdr's. I brought my laptop & they have wireless internet here so I thought I'd put something up.
As proof that fog is my friend, it followed me to Cheaha Mountain this weekend. After driving down the mountain to shoot High Falls, I drove back up and found this great playground in the fog.
This is another installment in the series of shots I started a year or so ago. Check out the set.
After spending a good part of the morning at the top of Cheaha Mountain and before the light got too harsh, we decided to head down to the lower part of the park to check out the colors surrounding the lake. It was a spectacular day.
"A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature." ~ Henry David Thoreau
For our Joy and the Glory of Jesus, through whom all things were made (1 Thessalonians 5:16 & John 1:3)
Camped Friday and Saturday night on Mt. Cheaha with Ethan and the cub scouts. We awoke Sunday morning with the whole mountain blanketed in fog.
Cheaha State Park : The highest point in Alabama is where these Woodpeckers can be found....they appeared to be exhibiting their territorial behavior . Dryocopus pileatus
This beautiful 6-acre lake was hand dug by the 'Civilian Conservation Corp', in the 1930's! The CCC was designed to provide jobs for young men, to relieve families who had difficulty finding jobs during the Great Depression in the United States.
"The CCC operated under the army’s control. Camp commanders had disciplinary powers and corpsmen were required to address superiors as “sir.” By September 1935 over 500,000 young men had lived in CCC camps, most staying from six months to a year. The work focused on soil conservation and reforestation. Most important, the men planted millions of trees on land made barren from fires, natural erosion, or lumbering—in fact, the CCC was responsible for over half the reforestation, public and private, done in the nation’s history. Corpsmen also dug canals and ditches, built over thirty thousand wildlife shelters, stocked rivers and lakes with nearly a billion fish, restored historic battlefields, and cleared beaches and campgrounds"
Excerpt from.....videos are worth watching as well.
My favorite Psalm about trees and creation, Psalm 96:
11 Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;
let the sea resound, and all that is in it.
12 Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them;
let all the trees of the forest sing for joy.
13 Let all creation rejoice before the LORD, for he comes,
he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness
and the peoples in his faithfulness.
We were at the restaurant at the top of Cheaha Mountain in Talledega County,Alabama.
It is the highest point in Alabama at over 2400 feet.
I didn't enhance the color at all,it was the reddest sunset I've seen.
After a storm on the Chinabee Silent Trail there was a nice mist on the creek. The trail was anything but silent today as the Creek was absolutely roaring.
I read Psalm 96 to my wife this morning, and verse 12 just jumped out at me and made me quite happy to think about all of the trees in the forests singing for joy to our God. What a heavenly image =)
11 Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;
let the sea resound, and all that is in it.
12 Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them;
let all the trees of the forest sing for joy.
13 Let all creation rejoice before the LORD, for he comes,
he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness
and the peoples in his faithfulness.
I am definitely not a very good wildlife photographer by any stretch of the imagination, but, it was fun photographing the Cheaha State Park resident Screech Owl on our recent photography workshop. Thanks so much to Mandy Pearson and John Dersham for a fun filled day.
"A wise old owl sat in an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why can't we be like that wise old bird?" ~ Edward Hersey Richards.