Log Shed

A rustic log shed in McLemore Cove

This little shed made of pine logs stood about 25 yards to the left of the old Hicks house pictured in my previous post. It was winter when I made the photograph, probably while I was out tending my cattle, and morning fog filled the valley of Chickamauga Creek. The dark mass beyond the fog is Pigeon Mountain, which forms one side of McLemore Cove. ("Cove" is a southern mountain term for a valley enclosed on three or four sides by mountains.) The other side is Lookout Mountain, famous for "See Rock City." Lookout and Pigeon come together at the south end of the Cove, with Daugherty Gap Road winding its way around four hairpin curves to the top of the mountain. It was a remote and beautiful place when we came to live there, and while not now quite so remote, is still very beautiful.

We were privileged to live in McLemore Cove and enjoy its beauty in all seasons for 33 years.

The photograph was made in the early 1990s with an Olympus OM camera and Fuji slide film.

Photograph and text copyright 2022, David B.Jenkins.

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My book, Backroads and Byways of Georgia, is now out of print, although copies are apparently still available from Amazon, and possibly other sources. The second edition is now in the editing stage and is scheduled to be released in December.

The Old Hicks House

The Old Hicks House, McLemore Cove

This house was on the property we bought in northwest Georgia's McLemore Cove in 1985. The property was known as "the Old Hicks Place," after a family that lived there for many years. They were not the original owners, though. The Cove, began to be settled by white people in 1832 after a treaty (probably very unfair) was made with the Cherokees. My best estimate is that the house was built sometime before 1850.

It was in much better shape when we bought it and we gave some thought to restoring it. However, we felt it would cost a fortune to restore and that our (limited) money would be better used to build a new house. 

The old house deteriorated over the years and we finally had it pulled down around 2016, leaving only the chimney standing as a memorial to history.

I'm not sure exactly when this photo was made -- the film cameras I used didn't record dates in the metadata as digital cameras do -- so I don't know if the camera was an Olympus or Canon. I used Olympus until about 1993, and Canon after that. My best guess is that it was made in the late '80s with an Olympus OM camera and Fuji slide film.

Photograph and text copyright 2022, David B.Jenkins.

I post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday unless life gets in the way.

Soli Gloria Deo -- For the glory of God alone

My book, Backroads and Byways of Georgia, is now out of print, although copies are apparently still available from Amazon, and possibly other sources. The second edition is now in the editing stage and is scheduled to be released in December.

 

Hang Glider

Hang glider at McCarty's Bluff, Dade County, Georgia

In the 1970s and '80s I was for a time the official photographer for the World Cup International Hang Gliding competition, sponsored by Glider Rider magazine and held at McCarty's Bluff on Scenic Highway on the western escarpment of Lookout Mountain.

The World Cup was the brainchild of Tracy Knauss, entrepreneur and publisher of Glider Rider, who had purchased the cliff at a high point on that side of the mountain, a place where favorable winds blew almost every day, and began charging people to jump off his cliff -- in their gliders, of course. A glider rider himself, he once set a record by staying aloft for five hours.

Because he was concerned about the safety of the flyers, he began to require that those who jumped off his cliff have a certain amount of training. McCarty's Bluff is now managed by the Lookout Mountain Flight Park and training classes for flyers are held every morning of the year, weather permitting, except Christmas Day.

The photo was made with an Olympus OM camera and a Vivitar Series One 70-210mm f3.5 lens. The film was probably Kodak Ektachrome 64.

Photograph and text copyright 2022, David B.Jenkins.

I post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday unless life gets in the way.

Soli Gloria Deo -- For the glory of God alone

My book, Backroads and Byways of Georgia, is now out of print, although copies are apparently still available from Amazon, and possibly other sources. The second edition is now in the editing stage and is scheduled to be released in December.

 

 

Stuck Truck

Stuck Truck. Burns City, Indiana

Doesn't look like this sad-looking old Ford truck has gone anywhere recently, and probably won't in the future except maybe to the scrapyard.

I like to photograph old and abandoned cars and trucks wherever I find them. I was in southern Indiana to photograph my niece's wedding when I passed this scene and made the photo with the same camera I used to photograph the wedding -- a Mamiya 6 medium format camera with a 50mm lens. A great little camera that I probably should have kept, but didn't. The film was Fuji's 400-speed color negative stock, and was scanned on my Epson Perfection 4990 scanner.

We had a good trip back from North Carolina, driving through the mountains on Interstate 40. We are now at the Melton Hill Dam campground just west of Knoxville until the end of the month.

Photograph and text copyright 2022, David B.Jenkins.

I post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday unless life gets in the way.

Soli Gloria Deo -- For the glory of God alone

My book, Backroads and Byways of Georgia, is now out of print, although copies are apparently still available from Amazon, and possibly other sources. The second edition is now in the editing stage and is scheduled to be released in December.