by Don McGowan | Aug 24, 2017 | August 2017
As more adventurers find their way to the edge of Great Smoky Mountains National Park along the state line between North Carolina and Tennessee, the wonderful area known as Big Creek becomes more of a destination for other than local folks. There are so many things to...
by Don McGowan | Aug 20, 2017 | August 2017
White Snakeroot (Eupatorium rugosum var. roanense) is a common late-summer composite in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, as the meadows of Purchase Knob can attest. And in the early light of a new day it serves as an attractive foreground element, gathering and...
by Don McGowan | Aug 12, 2017 | August 2017
The Grapevine Township of Madison County, North Carolina is a rugged land circumscribed by Bailey Ridge to the East, Sevenmile Ridge to the West, and the meandering uplifts of the Walnut Mountains, just a slightly smaller version of, and a hop,skip, and a jump away...
by Don McGowan | Aug 6, 2017 | August 2017
Looking into the lower slopes of Mount Kephart from Thomas Divide on an autumn day in mid-October can cause one to feel as if they have become lost on a well-used an artist’s palette; and when to this is added the moodiness of a morning’s rising fog, one...
