Lover’s Leap, Bluff Park, Alabama

Beautiful overcast fall day today for my commute home from work. I wanted to head up to Bluff Park instead of my normal commute through Vestavia Hills. A little more than an hour into my ride, I found myself exploring the Lover’s Leap rocks up in Bluff Park with the cool inscription shown below (and narrated in the video above):

Lover’s Leap inscription. Scroll to the bottom of this post to see my best guess at what it says.

Here’s the rest of the pics from the day, plus one more video — the somewhat crazy descent from Crest Lane all the way down through the Green Valley roller coaster. I’ve put some bookmarks into the description on youtube so you can jump to specific spots of the video if you watch it on you tube and then click the timestamps in the description.

Orange tree on one of the routes climbing up to Bluff Park from Green Valley

Lover’s Leap informational sign

Lover’s Leap inscription

Landscape view of the trees off the edge of lover’s leap

View looking into the trees next to the inscription

View looking back up to the overlook at the tip top restaurant

Looking down into the Oxmoor Valley and across to the Red Mountain ridge line

Another view looking down into the Oxmoor Valley and across to the Red Mountain ridge line

Large rock, oxmoor valley, red mountain ridge line

Looking back up towards the Verdure mini-peak extending out from the leading ridge line … the upper higher ridge line is hidden

View looking down South Cove at the ridges … gradient is above 20% shortly past the speed limit sign

A view of the beautiful orange and yellow trees at the top of the Laurel View mini-monster (18% climb)

Josiah and Ellen show off leaves they collected on their walk home from school through the woods

Tho W. Farrar
Seraphine F. Farrar
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To sit on rock ... head and fell
To slowly trace the forest's shady scene
Where things that own not in one dominion dwell
And mortal feet ... rarely been
August 20th
1827

“…” means I have no clue what that part of the poem says.

Fall Commute

I biked home from work early today to make it ahead of the rain. Even though the lighting wasn’t good, the fall colors were absolutely amazing. I had my old camera with me and got to do one of my favorite things to do while riding a bike — taking pictures! These pictures below are all taken on the climb up Smyer Road or from the top of the mountain at the Baptist Church.