by Don McGowan | May 18, 2019 | May 2019
If you could travel beneath the surface of the ground from this point near the Greenbrier Entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, you would discover that this thin outcrop of Roaring Fork Sandstone is actually the tip of a lithic iceberg hundreds, if not...
by Don McGowan | May 10, 2019 | May 2019
A couple of days ago Bonnie and I decided it was time to visit one of our favorite locations along the Blue Ridge Parkway, not so very far from our home. We try to visit at least once each spring. The Mountains-To-Sea Trail bisects the ridge going eastward off Craggy...
by Don McGowan | May 4, 2019 | May 2019
When the men, women, children and machines of Little River Lumber Company left the logging town of Tremont in December 1938, there was nothing left for Middle Prong to do but purify itself of the stain of men and flow on. It had officially become a part of Great Smoky...
by Don McGowan | Apr 27, 2019 | April 2019
Over the years I have shared several images from my favorite sunrise location in GSMNP, from the quite dramatic to the quite mundane. Truth is, Luftee Overlook is, in my humble opinion, never mundane, and just before the arrival of the spring’s new green, is one...
by Don McGowan | Apr 20, 2019 | April 2019
The small red maples that line the shore of the old mill pond at Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge, just a stone’s throw from the marvels of Moonstone Beach on Rhode Island’s incredible coast, offer themselves first as reflected leaves in the...
