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Scenic Sunday #104: A Many-Splendored Thing

July 11, 2010

Repulse Bay Beach, Hong Kong. June, 1987.

This is my post for the Scenic Sunday meme, which shares beautiful scenes from around the world.  To see more Scenic Sunday posts, or to join and show your own pictures, click HERE.

I’m not sure how many of you are old enough to remember the 1955 film “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing”.  The film was set and filmed in Hong Kong.  When I visited Hong Kong in 1987 our tour guide stopped at this overlook above Repulse Bay Beach.  One scene from the film was shot at the overlook while other scenes were shot on the beach you can see below.

The movie didn’t make as big an impression on me as the song of the same title, but it was still interesting to be at a place where part of the movie was shot.

The picture above was scanned from a slide.

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Down Memory Lane: Mount Nebo Waterfalls

July 1, 2010

I’ve mentioned several times how much Betsy and I like going to Mount Nebo in Arkansas.  We always stay in a beautiful rustic cabin on the edge of the mountain where we can enjoy the fantastic views.

But as you might expect, if we keep going back there have to be some waterfalls as well.  There is a Waterfall Trail that leads down the mountain not too far from the cabin.  I usually hike that trail at least once during our stay and, if we spend the day on the mountain, will often hike it along with one of the other trails.

The Waterfall Trail leads past one pretty falls, Upper Nebo Falls,  on its way to the main drop, Mount Nebo Falls.  Since both are near the top of the mountain the water flow can be low during much of the year, but they are pretty in the early Spring.  The collage above was made from pictures I took of the waterfalls during our visit in March, 2009.

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Down Memory Lane: Mount Nebo (2009)

June 21, 2010

Scenes from our visit to Mount Nebo, Arkansas. March, 2009.

If you have visited here for any length of time (or have visited Betsy’s blog) you have heard us speak of Mount Nebo in Arkansas.  Betsy knew of this place before we met, so she gets all the credit for introducing me to it.

Mount Nebo State Park is atop Mount Nebo, near Dardanelle, Arkansas.  The mountain rises about 1800 feet above the floor of the Arkansas River valley and offers wonderful views in just about every direction.  Sunrises and Sunsets are simply spectacular.

The park has rustic cabins, most built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.  We have our own favorite cabin perched on the edge of the mountaintop with a wonderful view of the valley below.  We can enjoy beautiful sunsets without leaving the deck of the cabin.

The park also has several miles of hiking trails and a couple of nice waterfalls.  So you can understand why we enjoy going there so much.

The picture in the collage above were taken in March, 2009, while visiting Mount Nebo to celebrate my birthday.  We had an ice storm while we were there, so that gave us a great excuse just to relax and enjoy the fireplace in the cabin.  We weren’t going to let a little thing like ice mess up our vacation!

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Watery Wednesday #91: Repulse Bay

June 9, 2010

Repulse Bay, Hong Kong. June, 1987.

This is my post for Watery Wednesday.  To see more of our beautiful watery world, or to join and post your own pictures to share, click HERE.

I was looking through some archived photos and came across this picture, taken in Hong Kong when I first visited in 1983.  Repulse Bay is a popular beach area in Hong Kong, although the bay is nearly empty in this picture.

There are a couple of stories behind the name of the bay.  We were told that the bay got its name from the fact that the British warship HMS Repulse was stationed in the bay in the late 1840s.  The other story is that the bay was used as a base by Chinese pirates who were driven out (repulsed) by the British army in 1841.

Regardless of how the bay got its name, I think it is a beautiful place and worth sharing on Watery Wednesday.

The picture above was scanned from a slide.

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A Visit to Mount Magazine

May 27, 2010

I’m not sure where all the time goes.  It seems as if I just get started on something when the late news and weather is over and it’s time to go to bed.  The weather has been great — the weeds in the flower beds are growing like crazy!

Since I have been running out of time each day, I have gone to the archives to make this collage from our visit to Mount Magazine in Arkansas in 2009.  Mount Magazine is the highest point in Arkansas and contains some wonderful views, waterfalls and hiking trails.  It also has a great restaurant.  Betsy and I have spent the day at Mount Magazine on every Arkansas visit for the past three or four years.

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Please keep Betsy in your prayers.  She has been having a great deal of pain with her left knee and finds it hard to put any weight on it at all.  We’ve been to a couple of doctors and she will have an MRI later this afternoon.  Hopefully the MRI will give the orthopedic surgeon some answers.

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Watery Wednesday #88: Ocean Isle Pier

May 19, 2010

Beneath the Ocean Isle Pier, May 3, 2010.

This is my post for Watery Wednesday.  To see more of our beautiful watery world, or to join and post your own pictures to share, click HERE.

When we were at Ocean Isle Beach the Islander Inn was within sight of the pier.  I enjoyed walking along the beach and watching the surf come in under the pier.  The pier itself makes an interesting pattern, and if you look closely you can see the spray caused by incoming waves hitting the pilings.

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Scenic Sunday #96: Calabash, North Carolina

May 16, 2010

Calabash, North Carolina, waterfront. May 3, 2010.

This is my post for the Scenic Sunday meme, which shares beautiful scenes from around the world.  To see more Scenic Sunday posts, or to join and show your own pictures, click HERE.

The picture above is of the Calash, North Carolina, waterfront.  Calabash is a fishing town and those are fishing boats at the dock.  Although the largest boats are shrimp boats, there are also charter boats available for deep sea fishing.  The inlet leading to the intracoastal waterway and the Atlantic is to the right front of the picture.

Calabash is also the location of some fabulous seafood restaurants.  To the left of the boats in the foreground (across the dock and some marsh land) is the Dockside Restaurant.  Calabash is just above the North Carolina – South Carolina border and only a few miles from North Myrtle Beach.  If you are in the area and want some great seafood, visit the Dockside or one of the other restaurants along the waterfront.

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Observations While on the Road

May 13, 2010

On our way to the beach Betsy and I spent the night in Simpsonville, South Carolina.  We were hungry after a day of visiting waterfalls and went to Ryan’s Steakhouse for dinner.

While we were eating I noticed a man talking to the young cashier.  They talked for a while and then the cashier came over to a table near us and told the family sitting there that their dinner was being paid for.  She took their receipt and went back to the front.  I saw the man who had been talking to her give his credit card to a man who turned to out to be the manager.  The manager processed his credit card, gave some cash to the young lady, who then brought it over to the family.

This happened at least four times.  Finally the cashier brought the man around and introduced him to each of the tables as the man who had paid for their dinner.  Of course, everyone thanked him profusely.  No name was mentioned, but it did not appear that the people whose dinner he paid for knew who he was.  He told each table that he was happy to be able to do it and he wanted them to remember this when they had the chance to help someone out.  Of course, they all said they would.

We have no idea who the man was.  We got the impression that he was known to at least some of the people in the restaurant, but not all.  Regardless of who he was, he brought a great deal of happiness to some strangers and gave Betsy and me something to think about.

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Watery Wednesday #87: Ocean Isle Beach

May 12, 2010

Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina. May 5, 2010.

This is my post for Watery Wednesday.  To see more of our beautiful watery world, or to join and post your own pictures to share, click HERE.

Betsy and I were fortunate enough to spend several days at the Islander Inn in Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina.  We had an ocean view room with a balcony that enabled us to enjoy the beautiful scene of the ocean pictured above.

This was the fourth year we’ve been to the Islander Inn.  But with views like this, I seriously doubt that it will be the last year that we visit.

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Get Any Bites?

April 26, 2010

Fisherman at Sandstone Falls on the New River, West Virginia. April 23, 2010.

When I saw this fisherman last Friday, I immediately thought of my friend the Fishing Guy.  FG is quite a fisherman living up in northeastern Ohio, although I’m not sure he has quite this backdrop at his favorite fishing holes.

Betsy and I were at Sandstone Falls on the New River Gorge National River.  We had driven up to southern West Virginia to spend a couple of days seeing waterfalls in an area we had visited before.

This picture shows just a very small portion of Sandstone Falls.  The falls is not high, but it is spectacular, extending all the way across the very broad river.

I’m sure Betsy or I will be posting more pictures of Sandstone Falls in the future.  But I hope FG will someday have the opportunity to fish the New River at Sandstone.  I can’t guarantee a great catch, but I can guarantee some fantastic scenery.

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