[jwfiv]

Good mornng, Mama_Bear, all our Hostesses and all the Finest.

I'm gonna stretch it a little today and stray from Alabama proper a few miles to a magical place that bears that fair name.

The eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Range is a great destination for landscape photographers. Lying at the base of Mt. Whitney, the tallest peak in the lower 48 states, is Lone Pine. Between the steep, eastern escarpment of the Sierra and the town of Lone Pine, are the Alabama Hills.

Golden-brown boulders of all sizes lie scattered across sage-covered hills creating a highly textured foreground for a dramatic view of sharply rising Sierra summits that line the western edge of the Owens Valley–warm colors contrasting with cool gray granite and a deep blue sky.

These hills were named in honor of the battleship "Alabama" by prospectors from the South who were sympathetic to the Confederate cause in the 1860s. The Bureau of Land Management now is the care taker of 30,000 acres west of Lone Pine, designated as the "Alabama Hills Recreation lands."

The South still lives in California.

A screen cap looking West from the Alabamas:

A picture I took a few years ago, looking East:

For dessert, a little pecan pie...all that hiking makes me hungry.

May all Freepers be having a very good Friday.

I'm given to understand that one of our Hostesses is about to take wing to the Land Down Under...I wish youa very safe and wonderful journey, dear Mrs. Bear...)))

[LadyX]

Ah, jw - nothng like a day at the Finest when you serve up those Feasts for The Eyes and Soul - - - they bring us back to center, reminding us of all the wonderful Creations God shaped right here in America.

Thank you for being our window and eyes and recording artist on and of the loveliest parts of the world.....

[Mama_Bear]

These hills were named in honor of the battleship "Alabama" by prospectors from the South who were sympathetic to the Confederate cause in the 1860s.

Thanks, jw.....you've cleared up a question I've had - why the Alabama hills are in California!

Yummy looking pecan pie!

[GailA]

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Pastry for 2-crust 9-inch pie, unbaked
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups diced rhubarb
1 pint strawberries, hulled and sliced
2 tablespoons butter

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.

Roll 1/2 the pastry and line a 9-inch pie pan. Mix sugar, flour and salt together. Sprinkle a little of this mixture into the bottom of the pastry lined pan. Toss the rest of the sugar mixture with the rhubarb and strawberries. Turn the fruit mixture into the pie pan and dot with the butter.

Roll remaining pastry, cover pie, seal and crimp edges. Cut a few slits in crust to vent steam. Bake in preheated 425 degree F. oven for 40 to 50 minutes.

PS you can add up to a total of 2 cups of Strawberries if you prefer a more Strawberry taste.

[Aquamarine]

WOW! Nice post.