by Lui Umano | Mar 21, 2015 | March 2015
One of my favorite locations as winter morphs into spring is the Greenbrier Section of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Middle Prong of Little Pigeon River and its primary tributary, Porter’s Creek, come together in glorious turmoil, especially when spring...
by Lui Umano | Mar 14, 2015 | March 2015
There are times of the year when Morton Overlook, the quintessential Smokies sunset location, is just not a viable place to photograph sunset. This is because of where the sun sets in relation to Sugarland Mountain. In writing in my quarterly newsletter, A Song for...
by Lui Umano | Mar 7, 2015 | March 2015
While there can be no doubt that the humble tobacco plant is the source of more ill in our society than can easily be recounted, it may also be accurate to say that it carries some positive effects, in biomedical applications among others, that we only dimly...
by Lui Umano | Feb 28, 2015 | March 2015
The Tom Brown Barn and its farm is one of my favorite locations. This old farmstead, dating to the 1800’s, is nestled at the foot of some of the most rugged country in Madison County, North Carolina, not far from the old Federal Highway through the Unaka...
by Lui Umano | Feb 21, 2015 | February 2015
Whatever else it may be – and I say this thinking about the winter of 2015 and our friends in New England – the relationship between snow and old barns is magical. In Madison County, North Carolina one of those particular magical relationships is the Dolph...
