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RoadPix – Providence Canyon

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Geology teaches us that canyons take many centuries, and even millennia, to form.

But there is a canyon in Georgia which did not exist less than two hundred years ago.

Providence Canyon is near the town of Lumpkin in Stewart County.DSCF5405

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This beautiful canyon is actually the result of bad farming practices.  In the 1800s, farmers clear cut the Georgia forests to plant their fields.  They then plowed up and down the bare hills rather than across.  Erosion was the inevitable result, with rainwater slicing through the layers of red clay into the white kaolin and underlying colored sands that give their color to this now-scenic spot.DSCF5404DSCF5391

Providence Canyon is now a Georgia State Park, and there are several overlooks where the beauty of the canyon can be appreciated.DSCF5395

The canyon is named for the Providence Methodist Church, established around 1832, which had to be moved as the canyon developed.  The building is still standing in the park and can be viewed by visitors.DSCF5397DSCF5396

The canyon itself is a work in progress.  The land continues to erode, and sometimes heavy rains can cause entire pinnacles in the gorge to melt overnight.DSCF5398DSCF5399DSCF5400And today, August 27 2014… the kudzu was in bloom!

 

YES, kudzu blooms!
YES, kudzu blooms!

RoadPix – Florida Caverns State Park

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Florida Caverns State Park on Hwy. 166 north of Marianna, Florida, surely should be listed as one of the Seven Wonders of the Sunshine State.DSCF4835

Visitors to the park may tour one of the caverns, which runs only about 67 feet below the upland hardwood forest but which feelsDSCF4878 as far away as another dimension.

Stalactites and stalagmites abound but among them are many other, much stranger stone formations.

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But after an hour of crouching, ducking, and squeezing through narrow passageways, coming up to the surface is a breath of fresh air.

TxB2Gd!
TxB2Gd!

 

RoadPix – Valdosta, Georgia

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The Old Lady is fixing to hit the highway, with lots of stops along the way.  She likes to share her perspective on the places she passes through and she figures, why not start right where she lives?  Too often people discount the place they live as ordinary but if they would step outside of their routine, slow down, and focus they would find that there are sights to be seen that are worth sharing.

Here’s what the Old Lady likes in downtown Valdosta, Georgia:DSCF4750

Street sculpture is always fun.  This one has a dual purpose: you can chain your bicycle to it.DSCF4753

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The ruins of buildings offer their own ethereal beauty.

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The Art of Floria Yancey

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There is a forgotten place in the remote Upper Coastal Plain region of Georgia, a place that does not even exist on most road maps.

                Brooklyn, Georgia.DSCF3462

But if you drive through Brooklyn you can’t miss it because of an artist whose name may be unfamiliar but whose work stands out.  Stands out on the highway, that is.DSCF3464

Floria Yancey is one of the last of a breed, a primitive roadside folk artist whose spirituality and painting are inextricably intertwined.

An ordained minister as well as an artist, Yancey’s church and gallery are marked by an exhibit of fading road art which acts both to catch the passing eye and to send it down the right road to Heaven.DSCF3474

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The Old Lady first met the Reverend Yancey after a wrong turn got her lost while she was looking for a nearby prison to try scheduling a blood donation event there.  She stopped by again about a month later when she began a fearful drive up to Atlanta to see about her Mother who lay ill in Piedmont Hospital. That day she asked Rev. Yancey to pray for her Mother.  The Reverend unlocked the small ramshackle church and took her inside where they stood together before the simple altar holding hands while the Reverend called for the power of God to help the Old Lady and her Mother.  A blood transfusion got Mother out of the hospital a few days later, a transfusion of blood that could well have come from one of the Old Lady’s rare successful events.  That is, one of the few where somebody actually did donate blood.  The Old Lady was fired from that job very soon afterward, but counted the experience a gain for her Mother’s sake.DSCF3477

Seven years later, on the afternoon of Palm Sunday, the Old Lady stopped in Brooklyn again on her way to another job.  The signs along the road had fallen into disrepair, and the church and gallery were deserted.  In despair, the Old Lady was fixing to move on down the road when the Reverend Yancey rode up in the shotgun seat of a fine car filled with family.  The Old Lady reminded the Reverend of that day seven years before.  “I thought you looked kind of familiar,” she said, holding the Old Lady’s hand.

Further along the highway that day, the Old Lady passed Jesus on the road toting a cross.  (See http://www.oldladyandpurpledragon.com/holy-week-pilgrimage-part-one/ )

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The Mickee Faust Club

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Tonight the Old Lady enjoyed a truly bizarre performance.

(NOTE: Performances don’t have to be bizarre to appeal to the Old Lady, but it certainly helps.)

The Mickee Faust Club in Tallahassee, Florida, is in its twenty-seventh year of performing “community theatre for the weird community” which certainly hits the Old Lady’s demographic.

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Tonight’s show titled “Queer as Faust VII” included a song-and-dance number about the “A-Gays”, an original video about the gay threat to traditional marriages, and a death metal performance titled “Heterosexual Extinction” that involved the abuse of stuffed animals.   A song titled “The Trouble with Andre” told the story of a man who cross-dresses in the privacy of his home but who has to lose the dress and don “business drag” to appear in public; the refrain is “The trouble with Andre is he lies” and this piece broke the Old Lady’s heart.  More upbeat was the skit “Telling Mom” in which a young man imagines all the worst case scenarios of coming out to his mother, but when he actually does he finds that she reacts by embracing him and saying “Finally!”
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While at the Mickee Faust Club, the Old Lady met artist Nancy who took her on a private tour of the art that Nancy has created to adorn the inside and outside of the clubhouse.

Titled "How Baby Rats Are Made."  It's subtle, but note how the late evening sun casts a real shadow strategically onto the painted shadow.
Titled “How Baby Rats Are Made.” It’s subtle, but note how the late evening sun casts a real shadow strategically onto the painted shadow.

The Mickee Faust Club is a little like a cousin of the Capitol Steps, that eccentric cousin who moved to Florida and came out and is subject to hallucinations and spiritual visions tempered with borderline mental illness caused by pollution from overpopulation, overdevelopment,  and corporate exploitation.

It’s worth a drive to Tallahassee.  Find out about their upcoming performances at http://www.mickeefaust.com/

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Messages Through Time

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Driving through central Georgia on Highway 19 south of Thomaston, the Old Lady saw a sign: “Auchumpkee Covered Bridge” with an arrow pointing to the left. The Old Lady turned left onto the unmarked side road and kept going until she found the bridge.
The sight is worth the side trip.

Auchumpkee Creek Bridge
Auchumpkee Creek Bridge

The last covered bridge in Upson County and one of only sixteen or eighteen (depending on which source you trust) left in the state of Georgia, the wooden span over Auchumpkee Creek is a fine piece of work.  The trusses are connected, not with iron nails, but with wooden pegs.  The restoration work has been meticulous and historically accurate.  The park-like setting is lovely.

Of course, there is graffiti inside the bridge.  You cannot get away from these modern versions of the ancient art of petroglyphs, and why would you want to?  Whether you consider these inscriptions to be defacement or adornment, graffiti is a custom that is as old as mankind.  It is as valid an art form as the cave paintings that date from the Stone Age.  Just because the artists now use Sharpie pens instead of chisels, that is no reason to scorn this type of communication.

The one that caught the Old Lady’s eye:

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The Old Lady mused on these messages as she drove away, writing and rewriting the story in her head.  Did the marriage take place?  Was the writer a child of “Momma & Dada”, perhaps the offspring of a common-law union that finally was to be legitimized, or perhaps a child of one of the couple, a child who was welcoming the gift of a step-parent?

Archaeologists ponder cave paintings and rock carvings.  The Old Lady ponders graffiti.

Is there really any difference?

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Snake Wall

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When the Old Lady migrates south she always stops at her very favorite rest stop, the one on I-75 just south of Gainesville, Florida.  She likes to visit the Snake Wall.

The Tail of the Snake
The Tail of the Snake

She walks up through the picnic area on the concrete sidewalk until she comes to the Tail of the Snake.  Then she starts up a long rampway that rises as the hill falls away, twisting around so as to give a panoramic view of Paynes Prarie Preserve.

The rest stop sits on the very edge of Paynes Prairie, and from there I-75 cuts across the wide wetland.  From the rampway high on the hill the full extent of the Prairie can be seen and appreciated.

The rampway is built in the shape of a Florida Queen Snake, with the top end of it being the head overlooking two smaller walls that make the snake’s forked tongue.

The Old Lady says: "Snake speaks with forked tongue."
The Old Lady says: “Snake speaks with forked tongue.”

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You can’t really tell that you are standing on a Snake Wall, but there is an aerial picture near the restrooms to show you the full sculpture.  You can even see the “bunny bump” in the middle, a wider place that expresses that this Snake has just eaten something… or somebody.

Snake Wall, from above
Snake Wall, from above

The Snake Wall has two purposes.  Yes, it’s a neat idea combining an overlook with sculpture.  But the Snake Wall is also designed to keep poisonous snakes from coming out of Paynes Prairie and into the rest stop area.  It is an impervious barrier to serpents that might endanger unwary travelers stretching their legs before continuing their automotive journey.  It provides an opportunity for a good look at the habitat of so many creatures, while keeping the most dangerous of them at bay.

Next time you drive into Florida, check out the Snake Wall.

 

 

Holy Week Pilgrimage, part one

               The Old Lady was on the road Palm Sunday.
She and the Golden Dragon were flying high, enjoying the spring-green countryside of south Georgia, sniffing an occasional wisteria blossom… when what to her wondering eyes should appear?

Jesus 1                Jesus, that’s what.  Or rather, who.  With cross.  Walking south on US Hwy. 280, just outside of the Ft. Benning Military Reservation.

                The Old Lady gaped as she passed, then turned the Golden Dragon around and went back.  You don’t pass Jesus on the road without stopping to say hey, she told the Dragon, and the Dragon agreed.

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                The guy’s name is Dennis Barnard.  He says he was saved when he was 50, and that he is 61 now.  He says six years ago “the Lord put it in my heart to do this” and he does it every year at this time.  He says every year he prays about where to start… this year he started in Phenix City, Alabama, just across the river from Columbus, Georgia… and walks to his home in Glennville which is a little west of Savannah.

                   He will be walking nearly all the way across the state of Georgia.  He has a little wheel attached to the bottom of his cross so it’s easier to move, and all of his camping stuff strapped to the wood just above the wheel.

                So, if you are driving through south central Georgia this Holy Week, watch out for Jesus.

                And tell him the Old Lady says “Hey.”