🧑‍🤝‍🧑 / 🏡 A phone photo thread...

[TerryP]

Yep, another one I don't want to try in Huntsville. Thanks for the tip.

What are you saying? Bay leaves, with a few chunks of ham, in chicken water doesn't whet your appetite?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

What are you saying? Bay leaves, with a few chunks of ham, in chicken water doesn't whet your appetite?

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I believe those are collards, sir.

Unbayleafable...

 

[TerryP]

I believe those are collards, sir.

Unbayleafable...

I know what they are, arsehole! I wanted some last night with dinner and neither Publix or Harris Teeter's had anything I wanted to take home.

It does look like a few bay leaves in ham water...gotta admit!

 

[footballer]

What's for supper Grandpa? Ummmm, Ummmm

 

[Bamabww]

With the warmer weather, Patsy, Buddy and I went for a hike to her dad's old homeplace / birthplace and revisited a once thriving commercial venture of her dad's.
Found an interesting Indian Marker Tree, just about 50 to 60 yards off the High Town Path which ran from Charleston to Memphis and used similar to the Natchez Trace according to local history.





And this old commercial venture produced 350 gallon of moonshine on it's maiden run before the sheriff's deputies found it.



Hoping to go back soon.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Outstanding photos and history!

 

[Krimson]

Keys sunset

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Keys sunset

Outstanding!

 

[footballer]

Post card

 

[Krimson]

I try to make it a point to see one every day, never know how many we have left.

 

[TerryP]

 

[TerryP]

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Dillon, Colorado.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

As opposed to my Tundra, my wife’s Bronco actually fits on the grease rack. First oil change.

 

[Krimson]

Good beer for the keys.

 

[Bamabww]

Parker Falls is a beautiful waterfall located in a remote section of the forest. On our first visit back in the mid to late 70s, there was a giant Beech tree that had a touching carving in three lines. The first line was: Bill Tidwell and then under it, 1910 and the third line, PRAYED TO GOD, in capital letters.

Since that time we've found his name carved in another area of the forest. We did some research on Mr. Tidwell and found he died in 1919 from tubercolsis. He's buried in the same cemetery as my great grandfather and his family.

Also on a branch feeding into Parker Branch, there is a mysterious rock wall built, I think as a dam of sorts but can't find any info about it anywhere. Near the dam location is a small cabin on a spot of isolated private land still in the forest. The dam is on forest land.

I happened to be a local trading post in Rabbit Town of Winston County, Alabama and the owner of that cabin was present. He was telling a story of hearing wolves howling from his cabin. One of his neighbors where he lives near Haleyville had heard the forest service had introduced several pairs of wolves in that remote area to see if they could help control the feral hog problem.

When the cabin owner stopped speaking, and the conversation lulled, I asked if he knew any thing about the dam built across the branch near his cabin. He turned and said, "all I know is it's none of your damn business." I replied, "I was just interested in the history of it." The trading post owner changed the subject to break the tension and pretty soon the cabin owner left.

The owner said, "he's touchy about his cabin because hikers have visited without his permission." I understand that but the dam is on public land, probably 100 yards from his land line and further than that from his cabin. But anyway...

Here's a picture of the rock dam. Water has run around the north side and washed the north end off during one or several of our spring monsoons ages ago.

An indian bluff shelter we found in the late 80s on a bluff line above the branch. Doesn't look like much from the branch where I took this picture.

Inside the shelter, which faces the south, so it would have been used as a winter dwelling, we found this Indian mortar hole and two small nutting holes. A nutting hole is where they cracked open the nuts etc to grind in the mortar hole. The first time we visited we didn't even own a camera but the pedestal used with the mortar hole was still present. We left it and it went missing, stolen by someone who looted the shelter. The nutting holes are two small holes on the left side of the picture.

The mortar was well used. My swiss army knife is 3 inches long.

I had placed this rock over the mortar on our last vist in 2016. If someone had visited since, they had at least covered the mortar back up as it was covered when I visited yesterday.

It is a little dangerous for a 72 year old man to cross the creek above tha falls but since I'd come this far, I wanted to see the waterfall from the front.

Buddy on top of the dam. Patsy in the background.

There's another three tier waterfall nearby Parker falls.

The Bill Tidwell prayer memorial tree stood as a witness of a man talking to his Maker in a beautiful place until winds from Hurricane Katrina blew it over in August of 2005. I never got a picture of it which is sad.










Wayne

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Parker Falls is a beautiful waterfall located in a remote section of the forest. On our first visit back in the mid to late 70s, there was a giant Beech tree that had a touching carving in three lines. The first line was: Bill Tidwell and then under it, 1910 and the third line, PRAYED TO GOD, in capital letters.

Since that time we've found his name carved in another area of the forest. We did some research on Mr. Tidwell and found he died in 1919 from tubercolsis. He's buried in the same cemetery as my great grandfather and his family.

Also on a branch feeding into Parker Branch, there is a mysterious rock wall built, I think as a dam of sorts but can't find any info about it anywhere. Near the dam location is a small cabin on a spot of isolated private land still in the forest. The dam is on forest land.

I happened to be a local trading post in Rabbit Town of Winston County, Alabama and the owner of that cabin was present. He was telling a story of hearing wolves howling from his cabin. One of his neighbors where he lives near Haleyville had heard the forest service had introduced several pairs of wolves in that remote area to see if they could help control the feral hog problem.

When the cabin owner stopped speaking, and the conversation lulled, I asked if he knew any thing about the dam built across the branch near his cabin. He turned and said, "all I know is it's none of your damn business." I replied, "I was just interested in the history of it." The trading post owner changed the subject to break the tension and pretty soon the cabin owner left.

The owner said, "he's touchy about his cabin because hikers have visited without his permission." I understand that but the dam is on public land, probably 100 yards from his land line and further than that from his cabin. But anyway...

Here's a picture of the rock dam. Water has run around the north side and washed the north end off during one or several of our spring monsoons ages ago.

An indian bluff shelter we found in the late 80s on a bluff line above the branch. Doesn't look like much from the branch where I took this picture.

Inside the shelter, which faces the south, so it would have been used as a winter dwelling, we found this Indian mortar hole and two small nutting holes. A nutting hole is where they cracked open the nuts etc to grind in the mortar hole. The first time we visited we didn't even own a camera but the pedestal used with the mortar hole was still present. We left it and it went missing, stolen by someone who looted the shelter. The nutting holes are two small holes on the left side of the picture.

The mortar was well used. My swiss army knife is 3 inches long.

I had placed this rock over the mortar on our last vist in 2016. If someone had visited since, they had at least covered the mortar back up as it was covered when I visited yesterday.

It is a little dangerous for a 72 year old man to cross the creek above tha falls but since I'd come this far, I wanted to see the waterfall from the front.

Buddy on top of the dam. Patsy in the background.

There's another three tier waterfall nearby Parker falls.

The Bill Tidwell prayer memorial tree stood as a witness of a man talking to his Maker in a beautiful place until winds from Hurricane Katrina blew it over in August of 2005. I never got a picture of it which is sad.










Wayne

Really cool stuff, Wayne. I always enjoy and appreciate your posts/photos.