Urban Hiking

So Bethany and I decided to forgo driving way the heck up to N. Georgia for hiking this weekend (gas shortage/extreme cost/time) and instead go for some urban hiking around Atlanta. It's really amazing how much more you see in a city by walking. We really tried to take a few lesser traveled (and sometimes scary) streets too. It gives you much more of a feeling of ownership of your town. You get to see a good cross-section of people and culture too.


city view near Midtown Arts area


I call this one "crucifixion on kudzu mountain"... it's right by the Whole Foods on Ponce- across from City Hall East


(sweaty) urban hiker


Vitis rotundifolia- my muscadines on the front fence

Outcrops mountaintops and noxious weeds

My outdoor September thus far:


my adorable nieces


noxious reproduction- english ivy and kudzu blooming together on my walk home from work.


Beautyberry at Davidson Arabia mountain


Cardinal flower and sulphur butterfly at Davidson Arabia


Just looks cartoonish to me- Hearts a bustin' plant at Davidson Arabia


It has not rained here in a week or two and these ants on the rock outrcrop built a little wall/highway between islands of vegetation up on the rock face. neato.


dogs on the AT


false Solomon's plume


gutterpop grapevine


yellow spotted touch-me-not aka- jewelweed. I've never seen this yellow kind before, but the orange ones are all over metro-Atlanta. It's nature's remedy to poison ivy- just crush the stem and apply it to your skin where you came into contact with the urushiol (ivy oil that causes rash)