tree bark turn green when the rain falls

This tree is Mobile, Alabama…tree bark turns green in Birmingham too. While the tree remains dry, the bark is brown.  i love the Southern rains, always strong & heavy, nothing subtle about rain that falls here.  It is magic to drive the roads i do everyday, or to just look at my own backyard &…

the yellow bike

Please park it beside the yellow & blue fire hydrant. Cause it make for a great photograph! Mobile, Alabama

the first celebration of Mardi Gras was in Alabama?!?

After living in Alabama for 20 years, i still can’t associate Alabama & Mardi Gras together. I mean, Mardi Gras is New Orleans, right? Wrong!The first celebration of Mardi Gras in the United States was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama, the year was 1703….fifteen years before the birth of New Orleans!! Mobile was the first capital…

lights of downtown Mobile, Alabama

I LOVED Mobile, Alabama. We brought our daughter to college @ University of South Alabama…then my husband & i took a stroll downtown. Music playing, people laughing & everyone out & about…all having a great time. I can’t wait to go back.

the tree branches in Mobile are extraordinary

the pictures are crap, but i was in the car & I wanted to show, anyone who cared to see, the trees in Mobile. The stretch across the streets forever. Absolutely defying gravity in my opinion.