Petrified Wood

April 16, 2024

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It’s been several years since Betsy and I visited Petrified Forest National Park, but I have been recently going through some of the pictures I took during that visit.  The petrified wood in the Jasper Forest section of the park was absolutely amazing.  I couldn’t get over the detail of the wood that was captured in the stone.  It was beautiful, especially when the afternoon sun hit the landscape at a perfect angle.

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Tulips in the Walled Garden

April 2, 2024

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My Beautiful Bride really likes tulips, so we make an effort to get to Biltmore to see the tulips in the Walled Garden.  Some years we misjudge the weather and the blooms and don’t see much.  Other years the blossoms are gorgeous.  The picture above was taken during one of those years.  We hope we’re as fortunate this year.

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Down Memory Lane: Petrified Forest National Park

March 19, 2024

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Betsy and I made our first trip out west in 2011.  Among the national parks we visited was Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona.  We found the badlands in the Blue Mesa portion of the park to be both forbidding and beautiful.

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Icy Branches — Blue Sky

March 5, 2024

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One thing about March is that you never know what the weather is going to be like.  It can be Winter one day and Spring the next.  Sometimes you can have both Winter and Spring on the same day.  The photo above, which I captured a few years ago does a pretty good job of capturing both seasons in one picture — ice covered branches against a beautiful blue sky.

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Return to Mt. Nebo

February 20, 2024

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My Beautiful Bride and I have been going to Mt. Nebo State Park in Arkansas for almost 20 years.  We’ve missed going a time or two, but we try to get there in February so that we can enjoy the sunsets from ‘our’ cabin on top of the mountain.  This picture was taken in 2016, but it does a good job of showing why we keep going back.  It’s our little piece of heaven on earth.

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Pisgah Inn Panorama

February 6, 2024

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I never get tired of the view we have from Pisgah Inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway, and I never get tired of trying to get a panorama which at least approximates  the beauty we enjoy.  I got the photos that made up this panorama on a morning in June, 2023. Many of the mountain tops were lost in a sea of fog.

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Down Memory Lane: The Teepees

January 30, 2024

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Betsy and I took our first trip out west in 2011.  It was a new experience for both of us, and the landscape was completely different from the forested mountains we enjoy here in Tennessee.

We visited several national parks on that trip, including Petrified Forest/Painted Desert National Park in Arizona.  The colors in the rock formations were almost incredible, especially in the Teepees area of the park.  There layers of blue, purples and grays were created by iron, carbon, manganese and other minerals in the rock formations.

When viewed under a clear blue sky, the scene was one of incredible beauty.

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Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

January 16, 2024

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My Beautiful Bride was very excited when we woke up yesterday morning — there was snow on the ground and it was still snowing.

Seeing the snow on the buses just made her more excited. This was just the type of snowfall that she loves.

Betsy must have taken a couple hundred pictures during the day. Her excitement was infectious — she had me singing/humming “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” most of the day.

The snow continued all day and more and more fell on the bushes.

It continued snowing even as night fell. According to the news, we got approximately 8 inches of snow. Betsy was still ecstatic, and I still had that song running through my head!

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An Icy Pond

January 2, 2024

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We used to get some fairly decent snowfalls when we first moved to Fairfield Glade, but in recent years we’ve gotten more ice and frost instead of snow. But even an icy golf course pond can be beautiful on a bright January morning, as this picture shows. I like the reflection as well as the frost covered grasses on the edge of the pond.

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Down Memory Lane: Albuquerque Plaza

December 19, 2023

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During our first western trip in 2011, Betsy and I walked around an Albuquerque, New Mexico, square on a late afternoon in June.  Many of the sights reminded us of settings we’d seen in western movies and television shows.  I found the second floor balcony of a building in this plaza to be very pretty, so of course I took a picture.

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