by Don McGowan | Mar 18, 2022 | Image for the Asking, Uncategorized
It somehow seemed fitting that the last EarthSong Image for the Asking – after thirteen years and three months of weekly publication – would not only be an image from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, but would also be an image from the most prominent...
by Don McGowan | Mar 11, 2022 | Monthly Archives, Uncategorized
One of the most wonderful and telling signs of spring in the Great Smoky Mountains is a beautiful area on the face of the Bullhead seen from the lower Campbell Overlook. Most of the trees in this section of the forest are hardwood of one variety or another. As spring...
by Don McGowan | Mar 5, 2022 | Monthly Archives, Uncategorized
It has been my privilege to stand on a number of occasions on the Canyon Junction Bridge just upstream from the confluence of North Fork of the Virgin River and Pine Creek in Zion National Park in the very late afternoon looking downstream as the golden light...
by Don McGowan | Feb 26, 2022 | Monthly Archives, Uncategorized
Today is a very special day in the history of our great national experiment with lands in our country owned by all of us and managed for the benefit and enjoyment of everyone. On this day in 1919, Grand Canyon became a national park. Theodore Roosevent, in 1908 as...
by Don McGowan | Feb 17, 2022 | Monthly Archives, Uncategorized
The beauty of the Blue Ridge Parkway’s Pounding Mill Overlook, just west of Wagon Road Gap by about 2 miles is well-known to the photographers in Western North Carolina and the Southern Appalachians beyond. The most coveted view from the overlook is looking to...
