~freezing my ass off~

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(February 19, 2024. Unicoi State Park, Helen, Georgia USA)

winter cabin

Blue Ridge, Georgia

I know original projects rarely do well on tumblr but I still want to introduce a project I just started working on. Its mythology meets Cryptids meets Arthurian legend meets a summer camp in the mid 90s. I’m still deep in the development phase for the overall story arc but Im writing a short story within the world for a class right now (go art school!).

It’s going to be two webcomic style episodes, Ive always wanted to make a webtoon so Im super excited! This is a wip of a promotional illustration featuring the main characters Merlot (left) and Guinea (right). I hope you guys like them :)

She wanted to see the view too

Went hiking yesterday (Sunday 11-19-2023) to the Toccoa River Swinging Bridge, on the Benton MacKaye Trail near Blue Ridge, GA, and at Sea Creek Falls, in the Coopers Creek Recreation Area in Suches, GA. You have to wade into the creek to see the falls.

More photos and some peaceful videos of the water, at my Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/dzgrizzle/

Tallulah Gorge and surrounding forest, GA || August 2022

Fall vibes in the North Georgia Mountains.

I found more snails

(February 20th 2024. Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia, USA)

nature meets suburbia

Playin around with some pictures of myself and @abonigena and a landscape picture I took.

Pink and purple sunset behind trees

Toccoa River, near Blue Ridge, GA

Rural hydro-electric infrastructure of Northeast Georgia

In the early 1900s the Georgia Railway & Power Company(currently known as Georgia Power) built a series of dams along the Tallulah & Tugalo rivers between what was at the time the boundary between Habersham County and Rabun County. The damns themselves are a series of six ‘stairstep dams’ and are among the first large, integrated hydroelectric systems in North America. The site on the Tallulah River(which is where four out of the six dams lay) was chosen due to the fact the Tallulah River has the greatest velocity out of any river in the eastern United States. This North Georgia Hydro Project once was the largest producer of power in the state of Georgia and are accredited to being key in Atlanta’s rapid growth in the 1900s. Now, they only operate at peak power supply. However, these six damns are capable of producing 166 megawatts, and supply enough energy to over 100,000 homes. There is often a seventh plant that is closely associated with this project, that plant is the Estatoah Dam in Dillard, GA. This plant was not however built by the Georgia Railway and Power Company but by the city of Dillard itself. The plant, known as the Rabun Land and Water Company at the time, this plant brought electricity to north Rabun for the first time, and continued to server the community for decades until it was purchased by Georgia Power Company in 1960. Georgia Power still owns & operates all 6 of the plants to this very day, and keeps all plants open to the public for recreation.

The Plants picuted are:

Nacoochee Dam, Lake Seed

Tallulah Falls Plant, Tallulah Falls

(The rails seen in the photograph are still used as access to the plant til this day)

Mathis Dam, Lake Rabun