Arabia Mountain.

Today was a special day.  An angel ascended from the heavens, picked me up in her Subaru, and brought her trusty sidekick with her.  I am talking about the hilarious gem in my life, Diane Simone and her friend Susan Shipsky.  Today we biked in the Arabia Mountain trail near Stone Mountain Georgia. The morning started out cool and cloudy, there was almost a drizzle in the air.  Then on the way back, the clouds parted and the sky opened up.  

Arabia Mountain is known as a rock outcrop and a monadnock. A monadnock is an isolated hill standing above the surrounding area, in this case wooded Piedmont land. Many rock outcrops lie east of Atlanta. Most are active quarries. Stone Mountain, Panola Mountain, and Arabia Mountain are being protected by local and state governments. Four hundred million year old Arabia Mountain is the oldest of these three monadnocks, 100 million years older than its granite cousins. Arabia is famous for the swirling rock pattern characteristic of "Lithonia gneiss," which looks especially beautiful on foggy days. Arabia Mountain was formed when rock was pushed upward toward the earth's surface, but still lay underground. As Stone Mountain and Panola Mountains were formed, Arabia Mountain underwent a change and the original granite rock was metamorphosed into gneiss (nice) rock.

This is chief pontificator Susan Shipsky.  Susan is expressing her desire for me to make her look like a starlet from the 1920's.   Please read Photoshop discussion from start of today's blog.  Besides, I think she does look like a starlet from the 1920's.

In this picture you see my angel Diane Simone.  (Don't tell anybody, but she is my x wife)

Diane is looking great, and sporting her full biker girl apparel.  With her pretty smile and slim aerodynamic bike you might expect to see her racing in some sort of petit le mans style bike race.  She has legs too, she made me work to keep up with her.

Hey now, look who we bumped into.  One of my BFF Rick Schroder and his wife Pat Berryhill .
The rumors are true.  Pat Berryhill introduced me to Diane in the "way back machine".  We got a passerby to take this shot for us.  That is me with the red shirt.