by Don McGowan | Feb 27, 2021 | February 2021, Uncategorized
Middle Prong of Little Pigeon River, that child of the convergence of Ramsay Prong and Buck Prong, as it flows through the valleys of Greenbrier Cove, becomes one of the iconic bodies of water of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a boulder-strewn course of laughing...
by Don McGowan | Feb 20, 2021 | February 2021, Uncategorized
From knowledge that rime ice forms in a fog or cloud and hoar frost forms in clear air, we might suspect that the scene Bonnie and I encountered earlier this past week in the Smokies would be descriptive of rime ice formed where a band of low cloud had settled along...
by Don McGowan | Feb 13, 2021 | February 2021, Uncategorized
In Acadia National Park one of the most heralded signs of spring comes along when spring has almost disappeared into summer. If you must, you can blame it all on Miss Alice Rumphius, who in her passionate wish to leave the world more beautiful than she found it chose...
by Don McGowan | Feb 5, 2021 | February 2021, Uncategorized
There are few places in Great Smoky Mountains National Park where the elements of design and the quality of the light combine to produce more amazing sunrises than at Purchase Knob. The 530+ acre gift of Voit Gilmore and Kathy McNeil to the Park Service in 2000 is a...
