by Don McGowan | Apr 4, 2021 | April 2021, Uncategorized
Barely two miles downstream from where Ramsay Prong and Buck Fork have joined their waters to become Middle Prong, a huge Thunderhead Sandstone outcrop on river left forces the nascent Middle Prong over several rocky cataracts and down to river right around the...
by Don McGowan | Mar 26, 2021 | March 2021, Uncategorized
It is truly joyful to watch spring as it bursts over the land of these old mountains of the blue mists. One of my favorite signs of this occurrence, the delicate flowers and leaf tips of the Spicebush, one of the most common understory shrubs of cove-hardwood forests...
by Don McGowan | Mar 19, 2021 | March 2021, Uncategorized
Although it is known as the Hemlock Path on the map, this delightful .2-mile-long run through the Great Meadow of Acadia National Park will always be known to me as the White Birch Path for what seem to be obvious reasons. Twenty years ago I called it by that name,...
by Don McGowan | Mar 12, 2021 | March 2021, Uncategorized
Luftee Overlook has always been, to my mind, the quintessential Smokies sunrise location. For more than a quarter-century it has offered me a quiet solitude of early morning hours with a face that is never quite the same from one dawning to the next. The title of the...
by Don McGowan | Mar 7, 2021 | March 2021, Uncategorized
Sometimes even postcards require a bit of creativity and a sense of artistry. Thus I offer Goat Island Lighthouse, a 20′ structure that graces the entrance to the inner harbor of Newport, Rhode Island on the north end of the diminutive land mass where early...
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...
