by Don McGowan | Feb 22, 2019 | February 2019
One very effective way to reach into the land of abstraction is by increasing the focal length of the lens you are using, since by doing so you narrow the angle-of-view of the image and you magnify and compress the elements; all of which serves to significantly reduce...
by Don McGowan | Feb 17, 2019 | February 2019
The wonderful Appalachian farmsteads of Madison County, North Carolina are treasured repositories of beauty. Often that beauty shouts at us from every angle we behold: the land, the structures, the beings – each sentinent in its own way. Sometimes, however, it...
by Don McGowan | Feb 9, 2019 | February 2019
In the Conservatory of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, there are some amazing plants on display, including some of the slightly more than 2000 palm species from around the world. In many instances I found, on my recent adventure there with Bonnie, the stalk or trunk...
by Don McGowan | Feb 3, 2019 | February 2019
Over the years, nearly two hundred of them, roads have taken various routes over the crest of the Smokies between the Oconaluftee area and what eventually became Gatlinburg and Sevier County. One route wound around the east side of Thomas Divide above Beech Flats...
by Don McGowan | Jan 26, 2019 | January 2019
Just east of where the Continental Divide slips through Stony Pass in the Colorado Rockies, from the small seepages pulled by gravity from the slopes of Canby Mountain, a stream is born that, in time and distance, will gather many other streams on its way east and...
by Don McGowan | Jan 18, 2019 | January 2019
Turning up canyon on Floor of the Valley Road from Canyon Junction, the first trolley stop you come to (after Canyon Junction) is Court of the Patriarchs Viewpoint. If you can convince yourself to climb a bit higher up the somewhat steep hillside behind and above the...
