Autumn in Alabama

Welcome to some city streets from my recent visit to Alabama, Old Historic Madison, Huntsville, Athens and Madison.

Above photo from Greece care of my daughter.

I'm also posting to

SATURDAY'S CRITTERS and City Daily Photo

and a few more southern charmers below.

Lou Lou

Athena

Miss Sparkle

One of my favorite houses on the way to and from my granddaughter's school. There's a old familiar feeling that comes over me anytime I visit places in the south and it feels like home to me.

"He surveyed the lake of grass below, all the dandelions gone, a touch of rust in the trees, and the smell of Egypt blowing from the far east."

Ray Bradbury

and

"Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."

Ray Bradbury

Some folks gathering for one of the evening tours.

 Downtown Hunstville.

If you can no matter what city you visit put at least one Ghost Tour on your agenda, and it's not just ghost stories but real-life views into how life was way back when on every tour.

Our tour guide and yes, she had a lovely southern accent.

"Life is good in the South, and it's not just the weather. It's the people. Southerners know how to live with an attitude of gratitude. We take things slow, enjoy every day, and make the most of what we have."

Deborah Ford, Grits (Girls Raised in the South) Guide to Life

A group of Halloween partiers came strolling by our tour.

Athens, Alabama.

"Snow in the South is wonderful. It's a kind of magic and mystery that it has nowhere else, and the reason is that it comes to people of the South not as a grim, unyielding tenant of Winter's keep, but as a strange and wild visitor from the secret North." 

"Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it." 

Ray Bradbury

A southerner doesn't truly understand cold. 

"If I had to tell somebody who had never been to the South, who had never heard of soul music, what is was, I'd just have to tell him that it's music from the heart, from the pulse, from the innermost feeling. That's my soul, that's how I sing and that's the South."

and where oh where did I take this photo any guesses?

"Grits Pearl of Wisdom #27:

Count your blessings first thing every morning, 

then add to them as the day goes along."

Deborah Ford

I know a good many of you may laugh at this but honestly, give it a try.

"You must write every single day of your life. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads, and may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world."

Ray Bradbury

Thanks for stopping by to visit and for your comments.

Take good care of you.