[Aquamarine]

[Aquamarine]

Georgia On My Mind

[Support Free Republic]

"Facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our
wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions,
they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
- John Adams -

Make your statement.

[The Mayor]

[Calpernia]

Morning to the Finest!

I'm off to chaperone a school trip. Be back!

[DollyCali]

Simply beautiful Aqua. Thank you. I really love the swamp.... have canoed, kayaked , explored there several times..... but not recently.

hope all you Finest FReeper Folks have a wonderful day.

[The Thin Man]

Chattahooche National Forest

Chattahoochee River

Cattachoochee River

Hi, Aqua..... I just hope that one of them is right. LOL!

[DollyCali]

Simply beautiful Aqua. Thank you. I really love the swamp.... have canoed, kayaked , explored there several times..... but not recently.

hope all you Finest FReeper Folks have a wonderful day.

[FreeTheHostages]

I have never been to the Callaway gardens or the coastal areas or hiking along the Blue Ridge or any of a number of things I'd love to do in Georgia. I've only been to Atlanta. Which is a shame. I just love plants and I think first on my list is the Callaway gardens.

Wow, FR is slow today. Took me the longest while to get this post up!

[Shanda]

Although I was born in North Carolina, I consider myself a Georgian. My Fathers family came over on the prison ship and I grew up in SE Georgia.

Sure do miss it too.

[SpookBrat]

St. Simons and Jekyll Island have some nice quilt shops. :)

Beautiful thread today. Thanks for working so hard.

[Robert A Cook PE]

We should let MH King know (he of the Conservative black ping list!), and (though she's ill) LBGA should know too!

[lonestar]

I enjoyed this. If I HAD to live anywhere but Texas, Georgia would be one of my choices.

[Calpernia]

Totally awesome write up of Georgia Aqua! Just catching up on my freeping now.

Etowah Indian Mounds State Historic Site was home to several thousand Native Americans between 1000 A.D. to 1550 A.D. This 54-acre site contains six earthen platform mounds, a plaza, village area, borrow pits and defensive ditch. This is the most intact Mississippian Culture site in the Southeastern United States. One of the mounds, a 63-foot flat-topped earthen knoll, was used as a platform for the home of the priest-chief. In another mound, nobility were buried in elaborate costumes accompanied by items they would need in their afterlives.

[Calpernia]

Georgia's State Bird

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FERRUGINOUS MOCKING-BIRD, Brown Thrasher

The Brown Thrush, or Thrasher, by which names this bird is generally known, may be said to be a constant resident in the United States, as immense numbers are found all the year round in Louisiana, the Floridas, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Indeed some spend the winter in Virginia and Maryland. During spring and summer they are met with in all our Eastern States. They also enter the British provinces, and are sometimes seen in Nova Scotia; but I observed none farther north. It is the most numerous species found in the Union, excepting the Robin or Migratory Thrush. Those which breed in the Middle and Eastern Districts return to the south about the beginning of October, having been absent fully six months from that genial region, where more than half of the whole number remain at all seasons. They migrate by day, and singly, never congregating, notwithstanding their abundance. They fly low, or skip from one bush to another, their longest flight seldom exceeding the breadth of a field or river. They seem to move rather heavily, on account of the shortness of their wings, the concavity of which usually produces a rustling sound, and they travel very silently.