Here’s some scenes I found attractive while driving from The Bottle, just north of Auburn, up 147 and 431 to Lafayette and a little beyond. Read about the history of The Bottle here. If you zoom in on a google map of the area, you can see it’s still labelled as “The Bottle.”
One of the things I do now is take pictures of barns. I’m not very good at photography or anything. I just steal my daughters digital Kodak sometimes when I drive around Lee County sight seeing, which sure beats the hell out of being chained to a desk cranking out billable hours. These are from a trip to Little Texas, an area south of Auburn on the way to Tuskegee, near the Tuskegee National Forest.
I’m clearing off my 2 year old piece of junk Palm Treo getting ready to get my hands on a Droid (so many features, and I’m loving the freedom of the cloud and freedom from Microsoft).
Here’s some pics from late September (I think?) when fellow RCB’rs Todd and Tonya (together affectionately known as Todya) were here. These are at Kiesel Park’s dog park. I heard Kiesel Park was donated to the City of Auburn by someone who thought there’s already too much focus on sports in Auburn. So one of the rules at Kiesel is no sports. The dog park is cool and can get very active. If you’re making a special trip to Kiesel with your dog, always bring a gallon of water to dump in the dog bowls while you’re there. Makes it easier for everyone since the closest spigot is a couple hundred yards away.
Beware. There’s alot of chasing, slobbering, panting and humping that goes on at the Kiesel Dog Park.
Our son Ben has been playing football this year for the Auburn High School Junior Varsity team (games on Monday nights). They are undefeated with 1 game to go against local rival Opelika. So we’ve really be getting into Auburn high school football this year.
Last night, we decided to go to the Varsity game for the first time this year because the varsity team is also undefeated and were playing Central from Phenix City. Prior to the game AHS was ranked #2 in the state, and Central was ranked #8 in the state. Both teams were undefeated, and the winner of the game would become Region 3 Champions.
It was packed, and it was really exciting. Both teams looked awesome. Congratulations to Auburn High School on the 26-12 win. My son Josh is in the 11th grade and tells me that game clips are played on the TV screens in each classroom on Monday mornings. I think the big play clips generate alot of noise throughout the school and gets the kids really fired up for a little while before school. I’m sure there’ll be alot of celebrating this coming Monday.
Congratulations Auburn!
Thank you Auburn for the Sundown Concert Series at Kiesel Park. County Road 12 was great… homegrown deep south folk music with soul. Alot of dogs were there walking their people. The weather was beautiful…. the rain stayed away from us, knowing how much we’d enjoy the music.
Standard Deluxe gives Waverly its character. These street signs are cool. There’s another around the corner that used to be a Yield sign, but now says “Judge Not” The Waverly area used to be called “Pea Ridge” back in the mid-1800s, so Scott Peek and a few neighbors think it would be fun to start referring to it that way again, or at least their little slice of Waverly. I’m sure Scott will come up with some great t-shirts that will eventually make Pea Ridge well known.
Contra-Dance
Then we went over to Fred’s Feed and Seed to sit and sample a few craft beers.
One of the ladies who’d been at the dance brought her bagpipes and played for us.
A very unique and enjoyable experience on a Saturday night when we didn’t have anything else planned.
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2009 Auburn CityFest
We didn’t decide to go until around 2, so we didn’t get to enjoy it as long as we could’ve.
Still, it was a beautiful day to stroll around, visit the booths and listen to the music.
We saw Auburn Brew Club members Mike M and Rob B, but missed Julie.
We ended up getting together with Julie later to go to a contra-dance in Loachapoaka.
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Fred's Feed & Seed
Here’s a picture gallery from last night and also some day time pics of part of the area surrounding Fred’s store.
If you live near Loachapoka, check it out, and support Fred. He’s the real deal.
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Recycle Auburn
Our friend Julie (who knows more about this sort of thing than we do) tells us its one of the best drop off recycle projects she’s seen.
The first time, I took them on my cell phone and was afraid the quality wouldn’t be very good, so the next time I went, I took my camera.
Here’s both sets of pics.
One thing I noticed: there were lots of brown craft beer bottles being recycled!
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