There’s lots of beautiful scenery in Lee County if you ever have chances to get out and meander around, taking your time to stop and look from time to time. Here’s a few scenes south of Auburn on Lee County Road 54, also known as Society Hill Road. We were looking for Randall Farms, but they’re closed on Sundays. (subscribe to their blog here). There’s a bridge out about 4 miles south of Moore’s Mill Road, so we didn’t make it all the way down to Society Hill, but there’s still some good scenery on those 4 miles. Here’s a few:
Yesterday was a beautiful day, so we decided to take a walk through Auburn University’s Louise Kreher Forest Ecology Preserve on North College. This is a great place to visit if you like hiking, and I suspect some people use the four miles of trails as jogging trails too.
Areas of Interest
Pond, waterfall and streams
Reptile, Fern and Native wildflower viewing areas
Butterfly garden
Old homestead and barn
Turtle Habitat
Long Leaf Pine Demonstration Forest
Wildlife Viewing Blind (area)
Features
Over 15 trails spanning four miles through various habitats (110 acres)
The Frank Allen Turner Amphitheater- a 100 seat multi-level meeting area with restrooms, wheel chair ramp, drinking fountain, and fire pit
Open pavilion with office and restrooms
Kiosks providing maps or trails, the preserve and other educational information
Two large parking areas
Year-round orienteering courses
Global Positioning System (GPS) benchmarks
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.
We found out about the Lee County Gathering too late to enjoy most of it, but Priscilla, Julie and I did go over to watch the Contra-Dance at the Loachapoka Community Center.
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.
Priscilla and I took the kids (and Daisy!) to the Auburn CityFest on Saturday.
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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