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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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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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When Betsy and I would visit Mt. Nebo in Arkansas, one of our favorite places to visit and hike was the Pedestal Rocks Scenic Area off of Scenic Route 7 north of Mt. Nebo.
Pedestal Rocks features “mushroom’ shaped columns sculptured by wind and weather. The “pedestals” are both fascinating and beautiful.
Pedestal Rocks is a great place to hike on a beautiful winter day.
In addition to unique shapes, many of the pedestals have lichen growing along one or more sides. Some of the colors are varied, vivid and beautiful.
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Betsy and I visited the Smoky Mountains in May, 2001. I had never spent much time in the Smokies, but I had an excellent guide since Betsy had visited them when she lived in Tennessee earlier. We very much enjoyed the beautiful green of the mountains and the flowing clear waters of the streams.
In the collage above, you see Betsy on the deck of the Wonderland Lodge, where we stayed, on the upper left. A view of Newfound Gap, near the Tennessee/North Carolina border is on the upper right.
A nice man took the picture of Betsy and me along Mill Creek in Cades Cove. In the lower center is a photo of the John Oliver cabin, also in Cades Cove. I got the picture of Betsy along Mill Creek which is on the lower right of the collage.
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