Posts Tagged ‘Tallulah Falls’

I Hear The Craziest Things: See Tate City and Hidden Waterfalls

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Waterfalls are my zen. They’re my destination every time I flee my every day and the weather permits interior driving/walking. My Waterfall Challenges are off-road, in the middle of nowhere stuff, which makes seeing this on one of those dirt-road trips a bit of a surprise:

See Tate City

Get it?

There I was in the middle of some of the most beautiful and rugged country a car can drive to in the North Georgia mountains, just shy of the state border with North Carolina, when off to the side of the road someone had painted a big red barn with a spoof on the tourist trap signs all around the more popular Rock City.

In the middle of a field.

Next to a mushy dirt road that resembled a mud puddle that morning because it had been raining for days.

“Cute,” I thought to myself. “The locals have a quirky sense of humor. I like that.” And off I went to find the obscure turn off where I could park Bessie and hike into the woods in search of interior falls several miles away.

Then, I saw this.

Tate City Pop 32

“Seriously?” I pulled out my local map. (more…)

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Dream Theories: Dr. C Wades in on Imagery!

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Everyone, welcome “Dr. C” back to the Dream Theories club house! You’re gonna like her “real world” take on dream inages, to go along with my more metaphysical ramblings ;o)

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Dream Imagery: “Where did that come from?”

Dream imagery has both straightforward and random aspects to it. I know Anna has covered some of this in earlier posts from a layperson perspective, so I’m here to give you the skinny from a psychological professional who deals with it on a weekly basis. First, I’m going to review some major theories of dream imagery and interpretation using a case study familiar to us all:

Client Name: Ebenezer Scrooge
Age: 70-ish (adjusted for modern life expectancy, etc.)
Occupation: Banker and Curmudgeon
Presenting Problem: Very vivid nightmares, particularly around the holidays.

“You don’t believe in me,” observed the Ghost.
“I don’t,” said Scrooge.
“What evidence would you have of my reality beyond that of your senses?”
“I don’t know,” said Scrooge.
“Why do you doubt your senses?”
“Because,” said Scrooge, “a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”

- “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, 1843

scrooge

When clients tell me about their dreams, a common statement is, “I have no idea where that image came from!” (more…)

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Waterfall Challenge: Hemlock Falls–You’re Here

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Water is poetry for me. It’s breathing. Thriving. Living. It’s escape and coming home and coming back. It’s today and yesterday and tomorrow. It’s dreaming.

Come to Hemlock Falls with my husband and me. This last May. Spring thaw. Never made it to the higher falls. Mudslides everywhere.  Never quite there. Never want to be.

You’ll see.

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Sun peaking. A halo. A path. You’re here.

Hemlock--forest_sun

Water teasing. A taste. A promise. Stay here.

On the way

Impossible winking. A want. A need. Know here. (more…)

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Waterfall Challenge: Tallulah Falls

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Fall’s coming (well, in a few months, but a girl can dream), so hopefully the 100 degree temps will let up soon. And the teenager’s heading back to school, so my days are going to be my own soon, and I’ll be missing him, and I’ll need a diversion. Oh, and the galleys for my next novel are in, so the off-the-hook stress is done there. So, time to dive back into my waterfall project.

This week I’m visiting a more substantial destination. Tallulah Falls (a 15-96 foot set of cascades waterfalls) and Tallulah Gorge itself are major tourist destinations near Clayton and Rabun Gap Georiga.

tallulah look out down

Absolutely leave time to explore.Get off the beaten path. You can hike down to the bottom of the gorge, traversing an 80 foot suspension bridge on your way. With a permit, you can actually walk out onto the falls and slide down to the crisp water below.

The Hurricane Falls staircase is fun going heading down to the gorge. But be careful– (more…)

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