The Way It Used To Be

Pandemics can be downright inconvenient for everyone. In the past I have posted images from our work with the Appalachian Barn Alliance. Bonnie and I both believe strongly in the mission and the work of this small, rural, 501 (C) (3)organization dedicated to the...

The Very Late Light and Middle Prong

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...

Spicebush Rising

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...

White Birches and a Great Meadow

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,...

Scattered and Covered

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...

A Postcard from Newport

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...