Gleaning Facebook: Snow!

I am hopeful that the entire ill-conceived shopping center project planned for this site will fall through. This is our property, the citizens of Rome GA and our representatives should not sell this wonderful wetland and natural area in our city's center. The following pictures are of more of the Burwell Creek wetland and surrounding parkland.

The science teacher in me wanted to take this picture. Why is the snow slightly deeper over the white lines in the church parking? The white reflected more of the sun's heat during the day and so was cooler and the snow "stuck" quicker there than on the warmer black asphalt.

I first knew this as the home of Lewis and Dot Walden and their sons Jimmy and Gordon. Gordon is one of my high school classmates of 1965 and a fellow Trinity MYFer.
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Gordon Walden
Thanks Terry. Great pics of my home, granddad's

Gordon Walden
and Trinity my home church. I just hope your power remained on.

Terrell Shaw
I almost feel a little guilty reporting that we had one of the most beautiful snows ever, while our friends and relatives to the south of us were dealing with downed trees and power lines and loss of electricity! And by last night the roads here'bouts were mostly clear and the majority of the snow had melted.

Gordon Walden
We had a beautiful snow here and it was just about all gone after the kids had some time to play in it. Some of the folks at my church love your photos!

 

Go to www.coosa.org and make a contribution to support our efforts to protect the most biologically diverse river system in America - the Coosa River Basin. This small wetland is right in downtown Rome. What a treasure!

Can you think of many things more wasteful than bulldozing mountains of earth to fill this beautiful wetland so it can become a parking lot?

The Burwell Creek winds out of Blossum Hill and Jackson Hill (two of Rome's famous Seven Hills) before emptying into the Oostanaula directly across the river from my home. Its wetland helps to store flood waters, helps to filter pollutants and debris that would otherwise dirty our rivers, provides habitat for fascinating critters and green things, and connects our Jackson Hill public natural, recreational, and historical area with Ridge Ferry Park. Those three parts make up our "Central Park".

The white "S" shape in the lower right is a beaver dam.

See Spring peeking out of the buds.  Fox, beaver, deer, heron, hawk, rabbit, salamander, crayfish, tree frog, turtle, even an occasional bear frequent the Burwell Creek area.

This wetland area would be a packing lot if the developers have their way. Join CRBI at www.coosa.org to help save this wild land for our children and grandchildren to enjoy.