This photo is from the Grant Park Summer Shade Festival back in August 2017. The day was warm and sunny. The park was active and fun. It was a quintessential neighborhood festival.
The festival got cancelled in 2020 due to The Pandemic. I’m looking forward to when it can return.
The Allatoona Dam on the Etowah River has some nice hikes with views across a small canyon. In the far distance, through the forest, you can see (ironically) the smokestacks of Plant Bowen, one of the largest coal-fired power plants in North America.
This photo is from Peachtree St looking at I-85 right where it merges with I-75 to form Atlanta’s Downtown Connector.
This photo is of a young American Elm tree (foreground) and Peach tree that we planted in Fall 2019. They’ve…
The colors in the background are the focus, but the composition is deliberate here. The irony of the southern Appalachians is that it’s hard to photograph the trees, thanks to all the trees.
I get a lot of the rhododendrons mixed up but one easier(?) way for me to just to note when it’s flowering. This guy was a particularly hot pink along the trail.
On my trip to Redwood National Park, I learned that the story isn’t really about the Redwood trees – it’s about the entire ecosystem, which is both under threat and at the center of conservation efforts today.
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I’m Nate Shivar from Atlanta, Georgia, USA. I love nature, public lands, books, and the old-school Internet.
