Mobile, AL - City Icons (illustration)

Mobile is Azalea City--everywhere I went, when I asked people what they considered to be a city icon, almost every time the answer started with "Oh, you have to get the azaleas!"  So I did.

From left to right: the city's favorite flowering shrub, Bellingrath Gardens, Bragg-Mitchell Mansion, the government building (designed to look like a sailing ship), two of the city's tallest skyline features (RSA Battle House Tower and Renaissance Riverview Plaza Hotel), the fountain at Bienville Square, and some of the park with its Spanish Moss-draped live oaks.

Everyone should see Mobile at some time in their lives--it's beautiful.  I only recommend the trip occur in the spring (April), when the azaleas are actually in bloom.  (Heh!)