Homestead Hike

Today my friends Ava and Melissa and I went for a hike through the National Forest near my house. We hiked through the woods, following the creek beds (Hidden Creek AKA Rocky Creek) and an old road bed that predated the land being part of the National Forest to look at an old homestead, and we ended up 2 miles away at the old, now closed Hidden Creek Campground, a CCC venture, in the Chattahoochee National Forest. It was a fun hike with the dogs as we stopped and took pictures of various plants along the way. At the old homestead we found some naturalized leeks or ramps as the locals called them as well as old daffodils, a large pear tree, a nearby crabapple, some walnut trees, grape hyacinths and a monster wisteria vine that is taking over the area. The only remains of the house was a few bricks with Plainville Brick Co. on them. That is a nearby town over on the Oostanaula River. I called and found out that the company was founded in 1910, so the old homestead is probably only about 100 years old. At any rate, it was a nice hike along the bottom land of the forest, and the company was great. My friend Ava took a few pictures of me, so now I can finally be like the rest of the world and display an actual, recent picture of myself on my blog.