Montgomery AL - City Sights

NOTE:  I've been busy this past week with other projects but wanted to post SOMETHING else to end the week, so I'm adding some photos I took last summer during a downtown Montgomery photowalk.   I love the development taking place on the riverfront and am so glad to see how much and how often people are enjoying this "new" area!

Lowndesboro AL - CME Church

"The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians,

but a school for the education of imperfect ones."

(Henry Ward Beecher)

NOTE:  Built in the early 1830's, the Methodist-Protestant Church (as it was originally named) is a typical end-gabled structure with a portico across the entire front, supported by four wooden columns. Inside, narrow stairs on either side at the rear of the sanctuary lead to the balcony.  The small octagonal steeple topped with a copperplated dome once adorned the first Alabama State Capitol at Cahaba.

Montgomery AL - Harriott II Riverboat

NOTE:  Nothing finer than cruising along the Alabama River aboard the Harriott II.  This 19th century riverboat is docked at the newly developed Montgomery Riverfront and offers great family entertainment including wonderful food, drinks, and music.   For more info, go here.

Prattville AL - Buena Vista

It is a well-known fact that I have a great weakness for historic homes.  

Took these photos today while visiting Buena Vista and 

waiting for my daughter's photo session to finish up.

Millbrook AL - Alabama Nature Center

The Alabama Nature Center, located at Lanark in Millbrook, Alabama, offers hands-on, outdoor-based educational programs and activities for students, educators, church and civic groups, and the general public.   Lanark and the new Alabama Nature Center contain 350 acres of striking forests, fields, streams, wetlands and ponds that are traversed by five miles of boardwalks and trails in three regions: Still Creek Run, Turkey Ridge, and Hilltop Pass.  With the completion of Phase I, they now have five miles of trails and boardwalks to explore along with a new 4,000-square-foot outdoor pavilion.   Source:  http://www.alabamawildlife.org/alabama-nature-center/

I took these photos during a nature photography workshop in May of 2008.  

Wetumpka AL - Bibb Graves Bridge/Coosa River

Wetumpka's beautiful focal point is one of only two suspended concrete reinforced bridges in the state of Alabama. It is the fourth bridge to span the Coosa River at Wetumpka, the fate of the first was unknown, the second was a covered bridge that was washed away in the "Great Flood of 1866" and the third was an iron bridge that was replaced by the current one in 1931. 

I took these photos today just before dinner at "Our Place" followed by a play presented by the Wetumpka Depot Players.  (BTW, dinner and play were both excellent!)

Montgomery AL - A Trip to the Zoo

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, 

where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike." 

(John Muir, 1838-1914)