I am at John and Lisa's home and John and Lisa actually live inside Atlanta, on a little hill with huge old trees on several acres of land that was once a farm with a little farmhouse on it. The land has been in John's family for several generations and, understandably, he isn't eager to see it developed. So except for the traffic noise, sometimes it is hard to tell if we are in the city or the country.
Just north of Atlanta is huge Lake Lanier, created in the 1950's by the Army Corps of Engineers for flood control, power production, water supply and recreation. On this lake resides John's father, "Doc." Today we drove up to Lake Lanier to Doc's home on the lake.
Atlanta is in a very severe drought and as a consequence, Lake Lanier is now 20 feet below its normal level. So here is what Doc's waterfront property looks like right now.
Everything that shows up now as sand is normally underwater.
Note the dock in the upper left corner of the picture.
Fortunately, Doc has still been able to irrigate his land from the lake. I say fortunately, because Doc is a gardener/farmer at heart. His property has many gardens, yes I said many. Some of them are not producing now, at the end of December, but many are.
The highlight of my day was picking fresh vegetables in December.
Look at these cabbages!
Broccoli without end.
Fresh dill. I can't wait to chop that onto some fresh fish.
Not to mention baby spinach, turnips and rutabagas.
What do you think of the size of these radishes? When I pulled them I thought they must be some strange new variety of beets.
So, guess what we had for dinner? No, not all of them. We had broccoli and a rutabaga-turnip medley to accompany Lisa's delicious meat loaf and John's superb mashed potatoes.
What will tomorrow bring? More veggies? I don't know.
Everything that shows up now as sand is normally underwater.
Note the dock in the upper left corner of the picture.
Fortunately, Doc has still been able to irrigate his land from the lake. I say fortunately, because Doc is a gardener/farmer at heart. His property has many gardens, yes I said many. Some of them are not producing now, at the end of December, but many are.
The highlight of my day was picking fresh vegetables in December.
Look at these cabbages!
Broccoli without end.Fresh dill. I can't wait to chop that onto some fresh fish.
Not to mention baby spinach, turnips and rutabagas.
What do you think of the size of these radishes? When I pulled them I thought they must be some strange new variety of beets.
So, guess what we had for dinner? No, not all of them. We had broccoli and a rutabaga-turnip medley to accompany Lisa's delicious meat loaf and John's superb mashed potatoes.
What will tomorrow bring? More veggies? I don't know.
Because tomorrow is a new day.
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