Ok, so another adventure here in Mississippi took me along what is known as the Natchez Trace. Basically it is a trail that runs for over 400 miles running through Alabama and Tennessee as an old road to travel back and forth near the Mississippi river. The French called it a trace (AKA trail) because of the foot path tracing along. And believe it or not you can still walk most of it if you want to. I went on a road trip along the trace for a portion and then walked a bit of it to just to see what it was like to just cruise toward the Mississippi delta on foot.
One portion that I walked a a very interesting story to it. When i walked up on it I saw 13 headstones right in line with the path. I got up to a trail marker to find that there were 13 unknown Confederate soldiers that had been buried right there on the trail. The bad part about it as I kept reading, was the fact that according to history, no one knew how they got there, where they were going, how the died, or for that matter who buried them there. It was somethings that was lost to the ravages of time I suppose.
A bit further down the road I came across a set of 8 Native American burial mounds ( there are 2 or 3 other areas like this along the trace). A storm started to come in so the sky went gray and a haze started setting over the field, so I touched it up in post… I got here way too late for fall color but from what the locals were telling me walking hte trace during fall color can be an amazing experience, so I will have to come back soon.
Captured with 1D Mark IIN 70-200f2.8 on Lexar digital film.
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