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Betsy and I have been going to Mt. Nebo State Park in Arkansas for 20+ years. We always stay in the same cabin and almost go in February, since we can enjoy the sunsets from the back porch of the cabin. This picture, taken a few years ago, shows why we keep going back.
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Aberdeen is an area of southwestern Hong Kong Island, and includes Aberdeen Harbor, which is one of nine harbors in Hong Kong.
In 1987 I was a member of a team of professors from Heidelberg College in Ohio who were going to mainline Chine to teach English as a second language. We flew into Hong Kong, and before going into China we spent several days touring the area.
Back then Aberdeen was known for its floating village and floating restaurants. We didn’t visit any of the restaurants, but we were able to visit the floating village while touring the harbor on a sampan. The residents of the village were fishermen, who lived with their families on boats
There were also boat yards in Aberdeen where boats were built and retired.
The area was beginning to change, as there were several high rise buildings around the harbor.
After touring the harbor we visited some of the outlying areas, We visited Repulse Bay, a beautiful body of water that got it’s name (so a story goes) from a British warship, HMS Repulse, that anchored there is the mid-nineteenth century. The bay is beautiful, regardless of how it got it’s name.
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When Betsy and I were younger (and healthier) we used to do quite a bit of traveling and hiking. Now those days are mostly over, at least trips that involve hiking. On those long-ago trips I took thousands of pictures, many of which I haven’t worked with. So now, especially during the winter months, I can relive those trips by going through my photos.
In 2011 Betsy and I took our first trip west of the Mississippi River. We visited several national parks on the trip, one of which was the Grand Canyon National Park. We came into the park ‘the back way’, and our first view of the canyon was at Desert View, on the eastern end of the park. What an awesome introduction to the Grand Canyon!
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I really don’t know which is more impressive at the Pisgah Inn — the mountains or the sky. Every once in a while the two come together to create a stunning scene. That’s what happened this past June 24. We can’t see the setting sun from our room, but the sunlight caught the little cloud in the center of the photo and colored it with red and gold. Is it any wonder the we keep going back?
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Pn our way tp the Grand Canyon in 2011, Betsy and I stopped at a wayside along to road to admire the Arizona landscape. It is so very different from anything we see in east Tennessee.
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Several years ago Betsy and I took a hiking trip with friends from Indiana to Hocking Hills State Park in Ohio. One day we went to nearby Lake Logan, where I captured this photo of autumn beauty.
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On our visit to Biltmore last month, Betsy and I roamed the grounds of the estate as we went from the Italian Garden to the Walled Garden. It was a beautiful day, and during a rest stop on our walk I snapped this picture of the house.
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For several years Betsy and I would visit Ocean Isle Beach in May as well as after Thanksgiving. One year, on a cloudy, rainy day during our vacation, Betsy and I headed toward Wilmington to see what we could see. One of the places we visited was Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson Historic Site.
Brunswick was a major pre-Revolutionary War port on North Carolina’s Cape Fear River. It was razed by British troops in 1776 and never rebuilt. Colonial foundations can still be seen on the site of the village, as well as the ruins of St. Phillip’s church and its graveyard.
During the Civil War, Fort Anderson was constructed atop the old village site, and served as part of the Cape Fear River defenses below Wilmington before the fall of the Confederacy. Remains of the earthworks of Fort Anderson can still be seen. Some of the huts built as winter quarters for the Confederate troops are on the site as well.
Some of the batteries of Fort Anderson could still be seen, although the artillery that would have been in them was not there.
All-in-all it was a nice way to spend a rainy day.
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Looking Glass Rock is a prominent landmark in the Pisgah Forest of North Carolina. The rock — really a mountain — rises to an elevation of nearly 4,000 feet above the valley. The granite surfaces of the mountain reflect the sunlight, which gave the mountain its name.
I got this picture of Looking Glass Rock from an overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
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When Betsy and I visit Pisgah Inn, the early mornings are often foggy or very cloudy. But this year we had a morning on which the sky was mostly clear at dawn. I was able to get some pictures of the color in the sky, even though there was some for in the valleys below. O, What a Beautiful Mornin’! June 24, 2024.
