Tag: Alabama
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Green Frog
Madison, Alabama. April 2025.
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Try the Pork
Henager, Alabama. April 2025.
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Bama Back Roads
I am inordinately fond of road trips, particularly ones that happen on two-lane roads. They are such a great way to experience the country. This is especially true as a photographer because you have the freedom to pull over for interesting subjects. The elaborate water tower above was actually along Interstate 65, but close enough…
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Pollination
There are a fair number of swamps and swampy areas in the Huntsville area. In addition to the Beaver Dam Boardwalk in the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, featured a few weeks ago, we went to a place called Hays Nature Preserve. It didn’t turn out to be one of our favorite places to walk—primarily because…
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Burly
Huntsville, Alabama. March 2025.
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Twickenham Columns
The Twickenham neighborhood in Huntsville, Alabama, is very close to downtown Huntsville. The columns above are not in that neighborhood, per se, but are close enough that we passed them on the same walk. Huntsville isn’t a particularly large city (population 225,000) but, even so, that there can be so many spectacular homes in its…
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Decatur Decay
In addition to the “prettier” pictures of Decatur that I shared last week, I found plenty of more worn and weathered tidbits, too. I love the colors in the image above: the blue-green oxidized copper goes really well with the blue-gray asphalt roof tiles. There’s a lot of nice textures, too, including a fine wire…
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Decatur Preserve
During our time in Alabama, we tried to explore the area within easy reach of where we were staying in Madison, immediately west of Huntsville in northern Alabama. One of the first places we went was Decatur, a city on the Tennessee River. There were several nice historic neighborhood walks featuring many different styles of…
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Three Red Windows
Decature, Alabama. March 2025.
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Spring Comes to the Swamp
Five weeks can make a difference. All of a sudden you say, “Wow. It’s green.” All of the images this week are taken along the Beaver Dam Boardwalk in the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, an irregularly-shaped reserve that straddles the Tennessee River and some of its swampy tributaries. I have visited this trail three times…