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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2019-10-16T16:24:41" itemprop="datePublished">October <span>16, 2019</span></time> + <span class="hide" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">by <a class="p-author h-card" href="/about"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></a></span> + </div> + </header> + <div id="article" class="e-content entry-content post--body post--body--single" itemprop="articleBody"> + <p>After the better part of a month hanging around Athens, GA, we were ready for a break. Cities, even small ones like Athens, stress me out these days. Even when I’m technically miles away from them. It’s not a very acute stress, not even something I notice until I leave and I catch myself sitting around the fire in the evening with my shoulders tensed tight. </p> +<p>I don’t know why, but I know some time further from civilization was calling. Our friends Mike and Cassidy were feeling the same. They wanted to get out on the water in some boats so we all headed down to Raysville, the very first place we stopped when this trip began nearly three years ago.</p> +<p>The campground at Raysville is under used, which is to say almost no one is ever there. We arrived on a Friday and had no trouble getting a spot. It took all of about five minutes for the kids to be out the door and into the water. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-09-28_101731_raysville.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-28_101731_raysville_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-28_101731_raysville_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-28_101731_raysville_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-28_101731_raysville_picwide-med.jpg" alt="swimming in lake, raysville, ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-09-28_101731_raysville.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I don’t think they’ll ever get tired of getting in water. Doesn’t matter what water really, they’re out there. They’ll ask to go swimming when it’s near freezing temps outside. It’s like just the idea of water makes things seem warmer.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-09-27_155523-20_raysville.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-27_155523-20_raysville_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-27_155523-20_raysville_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-27_155523-20_raysville_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-27_155523-20_raysville_picwide-med.jpg" alt="boy swimming, raysville, ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-09-27_155523-20_raysville.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-09-27_155523_raysville.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-27_155523_raysville_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-27_155523_raysville_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-27_155523_raysville_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-27_155523_raysville_picwide-med.jpg" alt="boy swimming, raysville, ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-09-27_155523_raysville.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The Raysville campground is an old army corp of engineers campground that the corp sold to the county a few years ago. It makes me laugh every time I think about it because there are all these things that only an engineer would think of — every site has a ground fire pit <em>and</em> a raised cooking grill, and there’s a table to eat off and another by the grill for cooking. It’s brilliantly well engineered. Also the sunsets are remarkable.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-09-27_170844_raysville.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-27_170844_raysville_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-27_170844_raysville_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-27_170844_raysville_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-27_170844_raysville_picwide-med.jpg" alt="clouds and sunbeams over lake, raysville GA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-09-27_170844_raysville.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-09-30_180538_raysville.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-30_180538_raysville_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-30_180538_raysville_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-30_180538_raysville_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-30_180538_raysville_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-30_180538_raysville_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-30_180538_raysville_picwide.jpg" alt="Sunset over lake, island, raysville ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-09-30_180538_raysville.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The next morning the kids were back in the lake pretty much as soon as the sun was up.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-09-28_080134_raysville.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-28_080134_raysville_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-28_080134_raysville_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-28_080134_raysville_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-28_080134_raysville_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids swimming in a lake, raysville ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-09-28_080134_raysville.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-03_110909_raysville.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-03_110909_raysville_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-03_110909_raysville_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-03_110909_raysville_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-03_110909_raysville_picwide-med.jpg" alt="john boat and standup paddleboard, raysville ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-03_110909_raysville.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-02_125925_raysville.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-02_125925_raysville_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-02_125925_raysville_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-02_125925_raysville_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-02_125925_raysville_picwide-med.jpg" alt="drone image of boat and swimmers on lake, raysville ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-02_125925_raysville.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>That was pretty much life for a week: wake up, go swimming, write some things, paddle around on the SUP, test out a drone, row the john boat out to the island (which the kids named poop-rock island for what the nesting Canada geese and other birds leave behind), write some more things. Then eat dinner and watch the sun light up the clouds. That’s about all you need really. Water. Sun. Food. 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Cities, even small ones like Athens, stress me out these days. Even when I'm technically miles away from them. It's not a very acute stress, not even something I notice until I leave and I catch myself sitting around the fire in the evening with my shoulders tensed tight.
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+I don't know why, but I know some time further from civilization was calling. Our friends Mike and Cassidy were feeling the same. They wanted to get out on the water in some boats so we all headed down to Raysville, the very first place we stopped when this trip began nearly three years ago.
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+The campground at Raysville is under used, which is to say almost no one is ever there. We arrived on a Friday and had no trouble getting a spot. It took all of about five minutes for the kids to be out the door and into the water.
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+<img src="images/2019/2019-09-28_101731_raysville.jpg" id="image-2137" class="picwide" />
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+I don't think they'll ever get tired of getting in water. Doesn't matter what water really, they're out there. They'll ask to go swimming when it's near freezing temps outside. It's like just the idea of water makes things seem warmer.
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+The Raysville campground is an old army corp of engineers campground that the corp sold to the county a few years ago. It makes me laugh every time I think about it because there are all these things that only an engineer would think of -- every site has a ground fire pit *and* a raised cooking grill, and there's a table to eat off and another by the grill for cooking. It's brilliantly well engineered. Also the sunsets are remarkable.
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+The next morning the kids were back in the lake pretty much as soon as the sun was up.
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+That was pretty much life for a week: wake up, go swimming, write some things, paddle around on the SUP, test out a drone, row the john boat out to the island (which the kids named poop-rock island for what the nesting Canada geese and other birds leave behind), write some more things. Then eat dinner and watch the sun light up the clouds. That's about all you need really. Water. Sun. Food. 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It’s not long before those birds quiet down though. By the time my coffee is ready the forest is transitioning from night sounds to dawn sounds. Song birds warble in the dogwoods. Red-bellied woodpeckers drum on oaks. Somewhere high overhead a red-tailed hawk shrieks.</p> +<p>We were house sitting for a few days once and the kids were complaining that, with the curtains closed, they could not tell when it was morning in the house. I asked them, “how do you know when it’s morning in the bus?” And they said, “we hear the birds singing.” Birds mean morning.</p> +<p>Every morning somewhere between the golden light of sunrise and the starker white of midday, three Carolina wrens stop by our campsite looking for food. Many birds move through the forest around us throughout the day, but these three come right into the campsite as if we’re not even here.</p> +<p>I sit at the table, writing. I don’t move that much I suppose, but certainly the wrens are aware that I am here. The noise of my fingers typing on the keyboard is enough to keep squirrels away. Yet everyday these three wrens behave as if I don’t exist. </p> +<p>Carolina wrens are tiny brown and tan birds with a slightly downward curved bill. They’re the sort of small brown bird that never stops moving. They flit and hop and bounce and chip-chip around beneath the table, even <em>on</em> the table sometimes, while I work. </p> +<div class="picfull"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-11-05_090518_misc-in-camp_QuIpHpY.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, (min-width: 751) 750px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-11-05_090518_misc-in-camp_QuIpHpY_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-11-05_090518_misc-in-camp_QuIpHpY_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="carolina wren on picnic table photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-11-05_090518_misc-in-camp_QuIpHpY.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Periodically one stops moving and cocks its head to look at me, as if reassessing what sort of threat I represent. But inevitably curiosity is satisfied and it goes back to ignoring my existence, hopping around, once even perching on my foot to get a better view of the ground. One wren even got up on the table and hopped along picking at crumbs, coming right toward me. I thought it was going to land on my arm, but at the last minute it seemed to suddenly remember me and it flew off into the bushes.</p> +<p>It’s nearly the time of year when the permanent avian residents of the Georgia mountains begin to band together. There aren’t that many. Most species are off in Mexico or South America by now. Those that remain band together for the winter. You see flocks consisting of Carolina chickadees, tufted titmice, and Carolina wrens, sometimes joined by golden-crowned kinglets, downy woodpeckers, perhaps a nuthatch or two. They join up in Autumn and often, from what I saw back when we lived here, stick together for most of the winter.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/birds_2015-05-24_095507.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/birds_2015-05-24_095507_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/birds_2015-05-24_095507_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/birds_2015-05-24_095507_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/birds_2015-05-24_095507_picwide-med.jpg" alt="red bellied woodpeckers on oak tree photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/birds_2015-05-24_095507.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Red-bellied woodpeckers aren't joiners. There's plenty around, but they keep to themselves."> + </a> +<figcaption>Red-bellied woodpeckers aren’t joiners. There’s plenty around, but they keep to themselves.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>But it’s not quite cold enough for that yet. These are Carolina wrens, traveling alone, together. Their dark eyes watch me whenever I walk around. If I get too close they scurry away, flutter off under the bus or into the wheel well, but for the most part it feels like I am in their mid-morning snack spot and it’s me who should be moving.</p> +<p>These three were the first time I’d had much encounter with the avian world in a long time. Mockingbirds had ruled in Texas, and I was feeling bad about the summer tanager I’d hit and killed while driving out there. It seemed as if the avians were angry with me, understandably. I dreamed once that a goldfinch was pecking at my finger, biting me until I bled. </p> +<p>After a few days of the wrens coming through I started to feel like perhaps I was forgiven for that bloody mishap with the tanager. Then one morning I stepped outside at dawn and there was a barred owl not more than ten feet away.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-09-15_062527_watson-mill.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-15_062527_watson-mill_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-15_062527_watson-mill_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-15_062527_watson-mill_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-15_062527_watson-mill_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-15_062527_watson-mill_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-09-15_062527_watson-mill_picwide.jpg" alt="barred owl, watson mill state park, ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-09-15_062527_watson-mill.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I don’t write about them much, but birds have dictated our destinations as much as anything else. If you were to overlay our route <a href="https://luxagraf.net/jrnl/2018/01/almost-warm">through the Gulf Coast in 2018</a> with popular spring migration birding spots, our route might make more sense. We’re not <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenn_Kaufman">Kenn Kaufman</a> by any means, but we’ve been known to be <a href="https://luxagraf.net/jrnl/2018/04/migration">on St. George Island in April</a>, maybe <a href="https://luxagraf.net/jrnl/2018/07/trees">spend summer in the Great Lakes</a>, and perhaps try for an <a href="https://live.luxagraf.net/jrnl/2018/01/ghost-cochise">early spring in the Chiricauhua region</a>. </p> +<p>My kids have been bird watching since they could stand up. It wasn’t something I forced on them, they’d never do it if I’d done that. You can’t force things on people, especially kids. If you want to teach your kids something, don’t talk about it, do it. Don’t tell them what you’re doing, just do it. They learn by osmosis and curiosity, not “teaching”<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-11-06_163952_misc-in-camp.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-11-06_163952_misc-in-camp_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-11-06_163952_misc-in-camp_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-11-06_163952_misc-in-camp_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-11-06_163952_misc-in-camp_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids on playground photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-11-06_163952_misc-in-camp.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Our kids picked up the bird book that was sitting on the coffee table in our old house and started looking at the pictures before they could walk. There’s a photo of one of them, still in diapers, the Sibley Guide to Birds spread out before her, thoughtfully tracing her finger down a page of warblers, trying to find one that looks like the bird in a photo a friend’s mother had sent us (it was a goldfinch).</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-01-24_024734_leica-test-watson-mill_HvRmOXH.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-24_024734_leica-test-watson-mill_HvRmOXH_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-24_024734_leica-test-watson-mill_HvRmOXH_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-24_024734_leica-test-watson-mill_HvRmOXH_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-24_024734_leica-test-watson-mill_HvRmOXH_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-24_024734_leica-test-watson-mill_HvRmOXH_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-24_024734_leica-test-watson-mill_HvRmOXH_picwide.jpg" alt="Kids walking down a road in georgia. photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-01-24_024734_leica-test-watson-mill_HvRmOXH.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-01-03_002829_sony-test-watson-mill.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-03_002829_sony-test-watson-mill_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-03_002829_sony-test-watson-mill_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-03_002829_sony-test-watson-mill_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-01-03_002829_sony-test-watson-mill_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids crossing a creek, georgia. photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-01-03_002829_sony-test-watson-mill.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Our kids know a lot about the natural world because it surrounds them every day and piques their curiosity. They wake up to the sound of birds singing. They point out the shrieks of the red-tailed hawk when it circles overhead in the morning. They note the chickadee and titmouse flock when it comes through not long after that. Every time they go for a walk when I’m working I get a full catalog of interesting birds I missed. Birding by proxy.</p> +<p>It’s not always birds of course. One evening the kids found a meadow vole under the bus, drinking from the tiny puddle of condensation that collects below the air conditioner. I imagine it’s busy around that water at night. The vole apparently overstayed and got caught out in the open. The kids dug it some roots and piled them back in the shade, where it could eat, but still keep cool. We stepped in for dinner and when we came back out it had moved on. </p> +<p>Later, after the kids were in bed, I sat out by the fire, listening as the evening sounds faded back to night sounds. The songbirds fell quiet. The woodpeckers stopped tapping. The whippoorwills started up. Later the deep voice of a great horned owl drifted up from somewhere down by the river below. I thought of the vole. Good luck out there friend.</p> +<div class="footnote"> +<hr> +<ol> +<li id="fn:1"> +<p>At least not teaching the way we commonly do it in American schools. General strategies can often be conveyed well (aka, taught) but no one (kids or adults) learns when they aren’t interested. And you can’t force interest. <a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:1" rev="footnote" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">↩</a></p> +</li> +</ol> +</div> + </div> + <div class="entry-footer"> + <aside id="wildlife"> + <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> + + <ul> + + <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> + + <li>American Robin </li> + + <li>Carolina Wren </li> + + <li>Downy Woodpecker </li> + + <li>Eastern Phoebe </li> + + <li><a href="/dialogues/northern-cardinal">Northern Cardinal</a> </li> + + <li>Pileated Woodpecker </li> + + <li>White-breasted Nuthatch </li> + </ul> + </ul> + </aside> + + + </div> + </article> + + + <div class="nav-wrapper"> + <nav id="page-navigation" > + <ul> + <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2019/09/old-growth" rel="prev" title=" Old Growth">Old Growth</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2019/10/back-to-raysville" rel="next" title=" Back to Raysville">Back to Raysville</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + 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It's not long before those birds quiet down though. By the time my coffee is ready the forest is transitioning from night sounds to dawn sounds. Song birds warble in the dogwoods. Red-bellied woodpeckers drum on oaks. Somewhere high overhead a red-tailed hawk shrieks.
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+We were house sitting for a few days once and the kids were complaining that, with the curtains closed, they could not tell when it was morning in the house. I asked them, "how do you know when it's morning in the bus?" And they said, "we hear the birds singing." Birds mean morning.
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+Every morning somewhere between the golden light of sunrise and the starker white of midday, three Carolina wrens stop by our campsite looking for food. Many birds move through the forest around us throughout the day, but these three come right into the campsite as if we're not even here.
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+I sit at the table, writing. I don't move that much I suppose, but certainly the wrens are aware that I am here. The noise of my fingers typing on the keyboard is enough to keep squirrels away. Yet everyday these three wrens behave as if I don't exist.
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+Carolina wrens are tiny brown and tan birds with a slightly downward curved bill. They're the sort of small brown bird that never stops moving. They flit and hop and bounce and chip-chip around beneath the table, even *on* the table sometimes, while I work.
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+<img src="images/2019/2019-11-05_090518_misc-in-camp_QuIpHpY.jpg" id="image-2108" class="picfull" />
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+Periodically one stops moving and cocks its head to look at me, as if reassessing what sort of threat I represent. But inevitably curiosity is satisfied and it goes back to ignoring my existence, hopping around, once even perching on my foot to get a better view of the ground. One wren even got up on the table and hopped along picking at crumbs, coming right toward me. I thought it was going to land on my arm, but at the last minute it seemed to suddenly remember me and it flew off into the bushes.
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+It's nearly the time of year when the permanent avian residents of the Georgia mountains begin to band together. There aren't that many. Most species are off in Mexico or South America by now. Those that remain band together for the winter. You see flocks consisting of Carolina chickadees, tufted titmice, and Carolina wrens, sometimes joined by golden-crowned kinglets, downy woodpeckers, perhaps a nuthatch or two. They join up in Autumn and often, from what I saw back when we lived here, stick together for most of the winter.
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+<img src="images/2019/birds_2015-05-24_095507.jpg" id="image-2109" class="picwide caption" />
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+But it's not quite cold enough for that yet. These are Carolina wrens, traveling alone, together. Their dark eyes watch me whenever I walk around. If I get too close they scurry away, flutter off under the bus or into the wheel well, but for the most part it feels like I am in their mid-morning snack spot and it's me who should be moving.
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+These three were the first time I'd had much encounter with the avian world in a long time. Mockingbirds had ruled in Texas, and I was feeling bad about the summer tanager I'd hit and killed while driving out there. It seemed as if the avians were angry with me, understandably. I dreamed once that a goldfinch was pecking at my finger, biting me until I bled.
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+After a few days of the wrens coming through I started to feel like perhaps I was forgiven for that bloody mishap with the tanager. Then one morning I stepped outside at dawn and there was a barred owl not more than ten feet away.
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+<img src="images/2019/2019-09-15_062527_watson-mill.jpg" id="image-2094" class="picwide" />
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+I don't write about them much, but birds have dictated our destinations as much as anything else. If you were to overlay our route [through the Gulf Coast in 2018](https://luxagraf.net/jrnl/2018/01/almost-warm) with popular spring migration birding spots, our route might make more sense. We're not [Kenn Kaufman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenn_Kaufman) by any means, but we've been known to be [on St. George Island in April](https://luxagraf.net/jrnl/2018/04/migration), maybe [spend summer in the Great Lakes](https://luxagraf.net/jrnl/2018/07/trees), and perhaps try for an [early spring in the Chiricauhua region](https://live.luxagraf.net/jrnl/2018/01/ghost-cochise).
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+My kids have been bird watching since they could stand up. It wasn't something I forced on them, they'd never do it if I'd done that. You can't force things on people, especially kids. If you want to teach your kids something, don't talk about it, do it. Don't tell them what you're doing, just do it. They learn by osmosis and curiosity, not "teaching"[^1].
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+<img src="images/2019/2019-11-06_163952_misc-in-camp.jpg" id="image-2110" class="picwide" />
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+Our kids picked up the bird book that was sitting on the coffee table in our old house and started looking at the pictures before they could walk. There's a photo of one of them, still in diapers, the Sibley Guide to Birds spread out before her, thoughtfully tracing her finger down a page of warblers, trying to find one that looks like the bird in a photo a friend's mother had sent us (it was a goldfinch).
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+<img src="images/2019/2019-01-24_024734_leica-test-watson-mill_HvRmOXH.jpg" id="image-2112" class="picwide" />
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+<img src="images/2019/2019-01-03_002829_sony-test-watson-mill.jpg" id="image-2113" class="picwide" />
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+Our kids know a lot about the natural world because it surrounds them every day and piques their curiosity. They wake up to the sound of birds singing. They point out the shrieks of the red-tailed hawk when it circles overhead in the morning. They note the chickadee and titmouse flock when it comes through not long after that. Every time they go for a walk when I'm working I get a full catalog of interesting birds I missed. Birding by proxy.
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+It's not always birds of course. One evening the kids found a meadow vole under the bus, drinking from the tiny puddle of condensation that collects below the air conditioner. I imagine it's busy around that water at night. The vole apparently overstayed and got caught out in the open. The kids dug it some roots and piled them back in the shade, where it could eat, but still keep cool. We stepped in for dinner and when we came back out it had moved on.
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+Later, after the kids were in bed, I sat out by the fire, listening as the evening sounds faded back to night sounds. The songbirds fell quiet. The woodpeckers stopped tapping. The whippoorwills started up. Later the deep voice of a great horned owl drifted up from somewhere down by the river below. I thought of the vole. Good luck out there friend.
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+[^1]: At least not teaching the way we commonly do it in American schools. General strategies can often be conveyed well (aka, taught) but no one (kids or adults) learns when they aren't interested. 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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2019-10-23T09:04:16" itemprop="datePublished">October <span>23, 2019</span></time> + <span class="hide" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">by <a class="p-author h-card" href="/about"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></a></span> + </div> + </header> + <div id="article" class="e-content entry-content post--body post--body--single" itemprop="articleBody"> + <div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_123409_elberton-county-fair.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_123409_elberton-county-fair_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_123409_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_123409_elberton-county-fair_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_123409_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Elberton county fair entrance sign, elberton GA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_123409_elberton-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Once, years ago, Wired ran a Christmas wish list in which they asked each of the writers what we would want if we could have anything. I, fresh off the boat from southeast Asia, said: ubiquitous fast internet. These days I nearly have that and spend a good bit of time avoiding it. </p> +<p>I have a great fondness for places with no signal, but traveling with modems that connect to all three major U.S wireless carriers means those places are few and far between. Especially east the of the Mississippi. Which is why, when we pulled into to Richard B. Russell state park and discovered there was no cell service, I was caught off guard. It isn’t even remote. It has a golf course. We only came because everything else was booked. </p> +<p>I had work to do that afternoon so I did the only thing I could. I got in the car and drove into Elberton, which is how I discovered that the very next day was the opening of the Elberton 12-county Fair. As it says right there on the sign. That’s when I remembered that travel has its own agenda, it bends you to its will as it sees fit. If there had been signal, we’d have never made it to the fair. No fair, no monkeys racing on dogs. No one wants that. So no signal, yes fair.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_123157_elberton-county-fair.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_123157_elberton-county-fair_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_123157_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_123157_elberton-county-fair_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_123157_elberton-county-fair_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_123157_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_123157_elberton-county-fair_picwide.jpg" alt="Elberton county fair, entrance sign, elberton ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_123157_elberton-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We got there early the next day just after it opened. We sprung for some wrist bands so the kids could ride whatever they wanted whenever they wanted. Then we ran into the height problem — there were far too many rides that not everyone could get on. </p> +<p>We managed though. I taught them how to stand up straight and how to walk toward the entrance with the surety of step that says, don’t even think about questioning my height. And it worked with all but one ride operater. Doesn’t matter where you go, there’s always <em>that guy</em>. </p> +<p>No matter what the situation, in the United States, there is always someone obsessed with the letter of the law, lacking the creativity to discern the spirit behind it. Or as my daughter put it with some degree of frustration and disgust “in Mexico this would <em>never</em> happen”. Mostly though, we had a blast.</p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_124250_elberton-county-fair.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_124250_elberton-county-fair_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_124250_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_124250_elberton-county-fair_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_124250_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg" alt="riding the merry-go-round elberton county fair photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_124250_elberton-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_124407_elberton-county-fair.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_124407_elberton-county-fair_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_124407_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_124407_elberton-county-fair_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_124407_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg" alt="riding the merry-go-round elberton county fair photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_124407_elberton-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_124747-1_elberton-county-fair.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_124747-1_elberton-county-fair_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_124747-1_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_124747-1_elberton-county-fair_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_124747-1_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg" alt="girl on a ride elberton county fair photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_124747-1_elberton-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_125809_elberton-county-fair.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_125809_elberton-county-fair_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_125809_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_125809_elberton-county-fair_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_125809_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg" alt="whirling ride, elberton county fair photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_125809_elberton-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_142202_elberton-county-fair.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_142202_elberton-county-fair_pic66.jpg" alt="eating snowcones at the fair, elberton, ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_142202_elberton-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_142201_elberton-county-fair.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_142201_elberton-county-fair_pic66.jpg" alt="eating snowcones at the fair, elberton, ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_142201_elberton-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<p>What surprised me was the solidarity. The one who could ride never did if the others could not. And there was no reluctance about it, the nose was very nearly upturned. She would not hear of it even when I encouraged her to go ahead. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_130419_elberton-county-fair.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_130419_elberton-county-fair_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_130419_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_130419_elberton-county-fair_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_130419_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg" alt="running back for another turn, elberton county fair photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_130419_elberton-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_130936_elberton-county-fair_01.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_130936_elberton-county-fair_01_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_130936_elberton-county-fair_01_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_130936_elberton-county-fair_01_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_130936_elberton-county-fair_01_picwide-med.jpg" alt="at the top of the ferris wheel, elberton county fair photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_130936_elberton-county-fair_01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I have thus far been pretty lucky with aging. It’s rare that I feel my age, but things that spin or swing or whirl? Yeah, I can’t do that anymore. Those spinning swings used to be my favorite as kid too. These days the Ferris wheel is about the speed I can comfortably spin. There’d have been snow cone syrup all over those spinning rides if I’d been on them. The girls loved the spinning swings though.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_131010_elberton-county-fair.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_131010_elberton-county-fair_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_131010_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_131010_elberton-county-fair_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_131010_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg" alt="view from the top of the ferris wheel, elberton county fair photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_131010_elberton-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_141602-4_elberton-county-fair.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_141602-4_elberton-county-fair_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_141602-4_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_141602-4_elberton-county-fair_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_141602-4_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg" alt="swinging chair ride, elberton county fair photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_141602-4_elberton-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_140454_elberton-county-fair_01.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_140454_elberton-county-fair_01_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_140454_elberton-county-fair_01_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_140454_elberton-county-fair_01_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_140454_elberton-county-fair_01_picwide-med.jpg" alt="swinging chair ride, elberton county fair photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_140454_elberton-county-fair_01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_160458-1_elberton-county-fair_01.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_160458-1_elberton-county-fair_01_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_160458-1_elberton-county-fair_01_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_160458-1_elberton-county-fair_01_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_160458-1_elberton-county-fair_01_picwide-med.jpg" alt="nascar ride, elberton county fair photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_160458-1_elberton-county-fair_01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>There was a livestock section at the fair, nowhere near as serious or big as what we saw at the <a href="/jrnl/2017/07/mancos-days">Montezuma County fair back in Colorado</a>, but there were horses to pet at least.</p> +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_142403_elberton-county-fair.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_142403_elberton-county-fair_pic66.jpg" alt="running in a giant barrel at the Elberton County fair photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_142403_elberton-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_142402_elberton-county-fair.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_142402_elberton-county-fair_pic66.jpg" alt="farm bureau peanut sign at the fair photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_142402_elberton-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_131605-1_elberton-county-fair.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_131605-1_elberton-county-fair_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_131605-1_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_131605-1_elberton-county-fair_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_131605-1_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg" alt="girl with horses, elberton county fair photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_131605-1_elberton-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</div> + +<p>And then there were the monkeys riding dogs. The Banana Derby. </p> +<p>“Monkey jockeys” I believe was the phrase. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_150644-1_elberton-county-fair.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_150644-1_elberton-county-fair_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_150644-1_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_150644-1_elberton-county-fair_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2019-10-12_150644-1_elberton-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg" alt="monkeys riding dogs, elberton county fair photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2019-10-12_150644-1_elberton-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I’m not sure what it is about <a href="/jrnl/2006/02/cant-get-there-here">small town fairs and monkeys</a>, but I’ve seen them on two continents now, so I guess there’s some kind of universal appeal. Personally I find it far too much like rubber necking at an accident scene, but other people seem to like it. And unlike that night in Laos I just linked to, or <a href="/jrnl/2017/07/mancos-days">the chicken chase at the fair in Colorado</a>, this time we have video.</p> +<div class="self-embed-container"> + <video poster="https://luxagraf.net/media/images/videos/2019/2019-10-18_banana-derby.jpg" controls="true" loop="false" preload="auto" id="5" class="vidautovid"> + <source src="https://luxagraf.net/media/images/videos/2019/2019-10-18_banana-derby.webm" type="video/webm"> + <source src="https://luxagraf.net/media/images/videos/2019/2019-10-18_banana-derby.mp4" type="video/mp4"> + Your browser does not support video playback via HTML5. + </video> +</div> + </div> + + </article> + + + <div class="nav-wrapper"> + <nav id="page-navigation" class="page-border-top"> + <ul> + <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2019/10/back-to-raysville" rel="prev" title=" Back to Raysville">Back to Raysville</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a 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I used to take pride is how fast I could get the tilt-a-whirl spinning. Two summers ago, at the age of 40, I rode on it, at the county fair no less, and almost puked! It was, a sad, sad day. I knew my life had changed forever. Oh well, at least I can still do roller coasters.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-4721" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Scott" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b><a href="https://luxagraf.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scott</a></b></span> + <span class="when">December 27, 2019 at 9:18 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Jake-</p> +<p>I know the feeling. That’s interesting though about roller coasters. It’s been ages since I rode a roller coaster, but somehow I think I’d be fine too. 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+
+Once, years ago, Wired ran a Christmas wish list in which they asked each of the writers what we would want if we could have anything. I, fresh off the boat from southeast Asia, said: ubiquitous fast internet. These days I nearly have that and spend a good bit of time avoiding it.
+
+I have a great fondness for places with no signal, but traveling with modems that connect to all three major U.S wireless carriers means those places are few and far between. Especially east the of the Mississippi. Which is why, when we pulled into to Richard B. Russell state park and discovered there was no cell service, I was caught off guard. It isn't even remote. It has a golf course. We only came because everything else was booked.
+
+I had work to do that afternoon so I did the only thing I could. I got in the car and drove into Elberton, which is how I discovered that the very next day was the opening of the Elberton 12-county Fair. As it says right there on the sign. That's when I remembered that travel has its own agenda, it bends you to its will as it sees fit. If there had been signal, we'd have never made it to the fair. No fair, no monkeys racing on dogs. No one wants that. So no signal, yes fair.
+
+<img src="images/2019/2019-10-12_123157_elberton-county-fair.jpg" id="image-2143" class="picwide" />
+
+We got there early the next day just after it opened. We sprung for some wrist bands so the kids could ride whatever they wanted whenever they wanted. Then we ran into the height problem -- there were far too many rides that not everyone could get on.
+
+We managed though. I taught them how to stand up straight and how to walk toward the entrance with the surety of step that says, don't even think about questioning my height. And it worked with all but one ride operater. Doesn't matter where you go, there's always *that guy*.
+
+No matter what the situation, in the United States, there is always someone obsessed with the letter of the law, lacking the creativity to discern the spirit behind it. Or as my daughter put it with some degree of frustration and disgust "in Mexico this would *never* happen". Mostly though, we had a blast.
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+<img src="images/2019/2019-10-12_124407_elberton-county-fair.jpg" id="image-2146" class="cluster picwide" />
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+<img src="images/2019/2019-10-12_125809_elberton-county-fair.jpg" id="image-2148" class="cluster picwide" />
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+What surprised me was the solidarity. The one who could ride never did if the others could not. And there was no reluctance about it, the nose was very nearly upturned. She would not hear of it even when I encouraged her to go ahead.
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+<img src="images/2019/2019-10-12_130419_elberton-county-fair.jpg" id="image-2149" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2019/2019-10-12_130936_elberton-county-fair_01.jpg" id="image-2150" class="picwide" />
+
+I have thus far been pretty lucky with aging. It's rare that I feel my age, but things that spin or swing or whirl? Yeah, I can't do that anymore. Those spinning swings used to be my favorite as kid too. These days the Ferris wheel is about the speed I can comfortably spin. There'd have been snow cone syrup all over those spinning rides if I'd been on them. The girls loved the spinning swings though.
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+<img src="images/2019/2019-10-12_131010_elberton-county-fair.jpg" id="image-2151" class="picwide" />
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+<img src="images/2019/2019-10-12_140454_elberton-county-fair_01.jpg" id="image-2153" class="picwide" />
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+There was a livestock section at the fair, nowhere near as serious or big as what we saw at the [Montezuma County fair back in Colorado](/jrnl/2017/07/mancos-days), but there were horses to pet at least.
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+And then there were the monkeys riding dogs. The Banana Derby.
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+"Monkey jockeys" I believe was the phrase.
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+I'm not sure what it is about [small town fairs and monkeys](/jrnl/2006/02/cant-get-there-here), but I've seen them on two continents now, so I guess there's some kind of universal appeal. Personally I find it far too much like rubber necking at an accident scene, but other people seem to like it. And unlike that night in Laos I just linked to, or [the chicken chase at the fair in Colorado](/jrnl/2017/07/mancos-days), this time we have video.
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