About Harris County, GA

Christmas is the season of lights, and no display in Georgia can outshine the magnitude and uniqueness of the annual Callaway Gardens Fantasy In Lights. Now in its 20th year, this show has become a holiday tradition in the South and continues to draw out the crowds as a favorite metro Atlanta holiday light show. In 1992, Fantasy In Lights opened as the first major holiday light show in Georgia and one of the largest in the world. Since then it has brought holiday cheer to almost two million people!

Nestled amidst wooded landscape of a nature preserve, Fantasy In Lights is touted as the Southeast's most spectacular holiday light and sound show with more than eight million twinkling lights celebrating the holiday season. Fantasy In Lights celebrates not only the joy of the season but the wonder of nature in this idyllic setting.

Drive your car or ride the Jolly Trolley to experience more than a dozen custom-designed, larger-than-life lighted scenes, like March of the Toy Soldiers and Snowflake Valley. At Robin Lake Beach, enjoy Twas The Night before Christmas and The Nativity, light and sound shows enticing passers-by to stop, reflect and enjoy.

When - November 18 through December 30, 2011

Admission - Prime night - $22 Adult; $11 Child (6-12). Value night - $16 Adult; $8 Child (6-12). Children 5 and younger are admitted free. Same-day-ticket purchases - $25 per Adult; $12.50 per Child (6-12). Sales tax and service fee will be added to all ticket purchases.

No discounts available. Same-day tickets may be purchased by phone or online by 4 p.m. on the day of event. After 4 p.m. tickets are purchased at the ticketing booth in the Christmas Village.

Where - Callaway Gardens® is in Pine Mountain, Georgia, 60 minutes southwest of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and 30 minutes north of Columbus. For driving directions and more information call 1.800.CALLAWAY (225.5292), or visit the web site at http://www.callawaygardens.com/

Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain Georgia is world famous for its amazing collection of Spring-blooming azaleas and rhododendrons. Flower lovers from around the world converge at the gardens every Spring for the showy display.

What many horticulture enthusiasts may NOT know is that Callaway Gardens is a great place for viewing fall foliage well into November! The garden features a wide variety of deciduous species that blaze into their Autumn splendor about the same time that the least leaves are falling in the North Georgia Mountains.

And while you’re there enjoying the display of fall color, you may also want to check out the Cecil B. Day Butterfly House, the John A, Sibley Horticulture Center, and the latest addition, the Virginia Callaway Discovery Center!

For complete information visit the Callaway Gardens Website!

Most of the residents of Lake Harding Georgia have never witnessed such a cold start to the new year.

We have had a cold streak for the last two weeks. The average high temperature here in January is 56 degrees with a low of 36 degrees. The record high is 75 degrees (1960) and the recorded low was 19 degrees (1964). Well, that record has been broken this year with a low of 14 degrees.

The lake actually began to freeze! The pictures show parts of the lake frozen up to 50 feet from the bank! That's incredible! Needless to say, we are ready for the temperature to begin to rise. We are looking for a high of 65 tomorrow and welcome it with open arms.

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Lake Harding Living

Lake Harding, on the Chattahoocheee River, currently has 35 homes for sale. The lake separates homes on the Georgia side and the Alabama side. Those thirteen available homes in Georgia are located in Harris County about 10-20 minutes north of Columbus. The twenty-two in Alabama are in Lee County just outside of Phenix City.

Homes range in price from $89,900 to $999,900

The average home price is $469,000

Take a look at some of these beautiful lake homes

Lake Harding has something for everyone whether you are looking for a weekend getaway or a permanent residence. Enjoy water sports, fishing or just relaxing on your boat or deck. I wouldn't choose to live anywhere else.

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I love everything about railroads! I love the feel of tons of iron and steel making the earth tremble by virtue of their sheer immensity. I love the smell of creosote and grease, and the distant sound of the horns blaring as they approach crossing grades!

I love the appearance of mile after mile of perfectly parallel rails running off into the distance, floating on a bed of crushed rock and held in place with square spikes! There is also a magnificent serpentine quality of a long string of rolling stock meandering through the countryside.

Our country expanded during the industrial age on the backbone of the railroads! With the ability to move our natural resources and finished products easily throughout the continent, our great nation became the economic leader of the world.

But alas, America's railroads are disappearing one line at a time. At one time nearly every town in America was connected by rail, now, only the main arteries are continuing bust, taking containers of freight to transfer stations to be distributed locally by truck.

Today, I photographed the Georgia Southwestern Railroad trackage in Pine Mountain Georgia being removed for salvage. After serving the town for over a hundred and fifty years, the day of the local train is over. It's the end of an era!

There's nothing to be done to stop the trend, it's a matter of economics and changing technologies. But it's still sad, like losing an old friend. A part of our American heritage is removed along with every piece of rail.

And so to the GSWRR line, I bid you a fond adieu. I will miss you very much!

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