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4.22.2021: Pickett’s Mill is one of the best-preserved Civil War battlefields in the nation. Visitors can travel roads used by Federal and Confederate troops, see the battlefield earthworks, and walk through the same ravine where hundreds perished. This 1853 pioneer cabin is furnished and open for tours during certain events. The cabin was also used in the movie “Get Low,” a 2009 release starring Robert Duvall, Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek. 

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4.21.2021: 

Everyday, he's a gettin' closer, 

Goin' faster than a roller coaster, 

Our Forrest will surely make our day, (hey, hey, hey) 

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4.20.2021: The Butterfly - Spider standoff. 110/365

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4.19.2021: It's not just the top of the flowers that is beautiful. 109/365

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4.18.2021: "A well a everybody's heard about the bird ... B-b-b bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word" 108/365

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4.17.2021: Forrest & Jenny cannot wait to be together again to run and play. Just a few more days of separation to make sure Forrest is fully healed from his surgery. Here is Forrest pawing at the door wanting Jenny to come out and join him in the yard. 107/365

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4.16.2021: I often pick up my pace as I pass this building in Acworth. All I need is a guard dog who is armed and apparently an excellent shot. 106/365

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4.15.2021: In 1858, Nathan Smith, an established evangelist, founded the Acworth Christian Church, which originally was located on Mitchell Hill. The church thrived until the Civil War, when the building was dismantled and used as shanties for Union soldiers. The church re-established in 1875 at its current location on Northside Drive. Tragedy struck again in 1899, when a fire (caused by embers from a passing train) destroyed the church. Nathan Smith died that same year, so he never got to enjoy the rebuilt church, which opened its doors in 1901. The church has been a fixture in Acworth ever since, and can be seen from Main Street and the downtown area. The church’s original brick exterior was covered by stucco in the 1980s. (aroundacworthmagazine.com) 

Thanks to Tim Richardson for giving me the guided tour today and letting me snap these photos. 105/365

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4.14.2021: Looks like it may be ... "A Rainy Night in Georgia." 104/365

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4.13.2021: Great sunset on a day we received a wonderful "no cancer" report on Forrest. Amen. 103/365

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4.12.2021: Built as a cotton warehouse by John Glover in 1845, the Kennesaw House is one of Marietta’s oldest buildings. Dix Fletcher purchased the warehouse in 1855, and after remodeling it, opened the Fletcher House Hotel in its place. During the early years of the Civil War, the hotel was used as a Confederate hospital and a morgue. In addition, Andrews’ Raiders stayed in a second-floor room on the evening prior to their theft of the steam engine, “The General,” which took place on April 12, 1862. (The Great Locomotive Chase) 

As the war was nearing its climax in July of 1864, the Union Army took over the building, and when General Sherman came through town on his “March to the Sea”, he did not burn the Fletcher House. Sherman spared the hotel because Dix Fletcher was a Mason and because his son-in-law, Henry Cole, was a Yankee spy. However, the fourth floor did catch fire as ashes from other burning buildings blew onto the roof, and the fourth floor was not rebuilt. (MariettaHistory.org)

I took this photo today (April 12, 2021 … 159 years to the day the Great Locomotive Chase began) and used a “wet plate” filter to make The Kennesaw House look like a photo that may have been taken during the Civil War. 102/365