It actually gets cold in Columbus, Georgia. The city-town sits on the banks of the Chattahoochee River, right up under the bosom of the Appalachian Mountains. They call this region the "Georgia Piedmont", and you can feel the tension of hills facing north and plains facing south. Winds snap and billow across the landscape, creating magnificent skies and clouds any time of day, and the trees exhibit more hard-woods than our southern-and-eastern neighbors do. I imagine there must have been many poems felt in the hearts of those that settled Muscogee County, at one point. The river brings up from the Gulf of Mexico a variety of water-fowl, and even Spanish moss. The moss and the egrets are almost exclusive to Georgia's 90-mile strip of Atlantic coast, but they seep in, through those blue cracks on the maps. The juxtaposition of hills, river, egrets and moss make this a topographical anomaly, with coastal flora and fauna but piedmont temperatures. It's hard to imagine that just to the south and east are endless miles of fields filled with cotton, peanuts, and soy.
If Columbus were only this rolling terrain of colorful leaves and river-life I may have had a chance to love it. Sadly, it is full of transient enlisted-soldiers, pay-day loan sharks, chain retailers, and Chinese buffets. My eyes are rarely drawn upwards, except for the occasional hawk, gliding unnoticed to land on a(nother) liquor-store sign.
2 comments:
The ubiquitous chinese buffet... how did we all become so confused with the difference between value and quality?
If you realy like nature you have to check out the water fall on mulberry creek. paddle a canoe down,thats west,river from the river road bridge. its a 15 to 30 min paddle. there is a nice swiming hole there bellow the falls. on one side there is a girl scout cammping area. the nature there is wonderfull.
have you gone to pinemountain and walked the trails and gone to callaway gardens?
the flint rivr is another great place to try.
peace, whirlwind dreamer
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