Monte di Roccia

I'll probably mess this up — in that I don't know Italian.  Heck, I don't even know English.  But anyway…

Monte Sano supposedly means "Mountain of Health" in Italian.  That's what the guy that was trying to sell rooms at his hotel called it.  (Yellow fever was a problem in frontier-days Huntsville. Rich folks could stay on top of the mountain until it went away.)  If there had (ever) been a truth-in-advertising law, he would have had to call it Monte di Roccia — Mountain of Rock. 

It might not look like it but this is actually a section of the Bankhead Trail (the gap between the rocks in the foreground) in the Monte Sano Nature Preserve.  It is part of the Land Trust of North Alabama and abuts the Monte Sano State Park.  Believe it or not, it's less than 4 miles (straight line) from the courthouse square in Huntsville, Alabama.  

It is a treasure.  There will be many, many battles to keep all this natural.  And they will never end.

Nikon D7200 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR

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