Secret Vistas By Glynn Wilson MARION, Va. – Listening to a babbling brook and watching the snow flakes gently fall in one of Mother Nature’s most beautiful acts, I am pondering the legend of the hungry mother who inspired the name of this place along the Hungry Mother Creek. As the story goes, back during…
A photo essay of images from the Talladega National Forest, Fall 2013. Scenes from Lake Chinnabee, Cheaha Falls and the Turnipseed Campground.
Cheaha Falls and trail on an autumn hike, November 3, 2013. Photos by Glynn Wilson and Kenny Walters. Click on the images for a larger view.
A photo essay of images from a hike to Cheaha Falls on November 3, 2013.
By Glynn Wilson – The autumn season is upon us, since the fall equinox occurred on September 22, and it is about to be a busy time of year for travelers who like to get outdoors and chase the changing leaf colors in the most beautiful of seasons in North America. According to officials in…
By Glynn Wilson – Watch the video – ATLANTA, Ga. — The Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area near Atlanta, Georgia attracts large crowds of hikers, joggers, bikers, kayakers and those from the big city who just want to float down the river in an inner tube or a rubber raft with a cooler of refreshing…
Watch the video here – All photos by Glynn Wilson. All rights reserved. CLICK on the IMAGES for a Larger View. It is unclear what happened to the male Eastern bluebird [Sialia sialis] who spawned this clutch with the attractive female in the photos, although for the past two days, she has been feeding them…
While the Alabama Sierra Club executive committee was meeting in Vestavia Hills on Saturday, I took the opportunity at every break to photograph the birds on the feeders in Margo Rebar’s beautiful back yard. Unfortunately, I was not able to get a clear shot of the yellow-bellied sapsucker who likes to hang upside down and…
Lake Chinnabee Campground in autumn [click on the image for a larger view] – By Glynn Wilson – There is still no word from the Obama administration’s Bureau of Land Management or the U.S. Forest Service on whether a plan to open up most of the Talladega National Forest to natural gas drilling is still…
When the first snow of 2013 began falling in Birmingham, Alabama on Thursday, photographer and hiker Kenny Walters took out along Vulcan Trail on Birmingham’s Southside with his Nikon to document the beauty of the event. This is some of what he found. Looking up at Vulcan – Around the bend – A fallen tree…
A Carolina chickadee [poecile carolinensis] feeding in a dogwood on the morning after the first snowfall of 2013. (Click on the images for a larger view.) John James Audubon himself named this species in South Carolina. The curious, intelligent Carolina chickadee looks very much like a black-capped Chickadee, with a black cap on its cute…
The first snowfall of 2013 hit Middle Alabamaland on Thursday, shutting down schools and causing power outages and other havoc even though the forecast only called for 1-3 inches and the winter storm was expected to be short-lived. Scroll down to see the best pics from later in the day. Click on the images for…
Sorry to change the subject from all the violence, but I will not turn armed criminals into celebrities by glorifying their despicable acts. We have other things to worry about that we may be able to do something about. Shouldn’t we be asking ourselves the question: Why are the roses blooming in December? We may…
This blue hydrangea is blooming in December. It looks purple here. Not sure what’s going on, except that the warm, humid weather lately appears to have fooled a number of plant species into thinking it is spring already. I mean we haven’t even had winter yet. Do you know anyone who is still a global…
The word Iris means rainbow. Iris is the flower of the Greek goddess Iris who is the messenger of Love. In the language of flowers Iris symbolizes eloquence. It blooms in the spring, not the winter, but this one popped out in Monday’s December rain.
Click here or on the image for a larger view – By Glynn Wilson – Secret Vistas – LAKE CHINNABEE CAMPGROUND, Ala. — The day before Thanksgiving photographer Kenny Walters and I packed up our gear and headed northeast from Birmingham to camp one more time in the Talladega National Forest before we have to…
Peak autumn color in the Catawba River near Marion, North Carolina By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Life is like a river. This is the ultimate metaphor for life. Many an American writer has compared life to the game of baseball. Myself included. But when I took this turn in life seven years ago…
A Lake Coleman campsite, just a short walk through the forest to the lake Secret Vistas by Glynn Wilson When the summer heat begins to fade away, the days grow shorter and the leaves start falling from the trees and changing colors, I don’t know about you but it’s hard to resist packing up the…
Glynn Wilson The Little River Canyon Falls from the main overlook by Glynn Wilson Secret Vistas LITTLE RIVER CANYON, Ala. — It’s a little early for peak autumn color in North Alabama, but it’s beginning to look a lot like fall in early October in the Southern Appalachians as the dogwoods turn red and the…
The rose-breasted grosbeaks and other migratory bird species are passing through the South on the way north for the summer. I managed to get a few decent shots today. Glynn Wilson The rose-breasted grosbeak [pheucticus ludovicianus] making a stop in the backyard bird sanctuary in middle Alabama during the spring bird migration of 2012. Click…
