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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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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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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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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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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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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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For several years Betsy and I would take a ‘leaf peeking’ trip in mid-October to enjoy the autumn colors in the mountains of east Tennessee and western North Carolina. We would usually make a loop of our trip, taking in both the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Cherohala Skyway. We almost always stop at Indian Boundary, which is off the Cherohala. This is the view we enjoyed last year.
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Betsy and I have been celebrating our anniversary at Pisgah Inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. We keep going back because of the views of the mountains are amazing. We very much enjoy sitting on the balcony of our room and taking in the view.
We usually hope for clear, sunny days when we’re visiting the inn, but a cloudy, overcast day has a beauty of its own, as the picture above shows. In the early morning light we were able to look down on some of the clouds covering the valley and some of the mountain peaks.
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Betsy and I made our first trip out west back in 2011. The scenery we enjoyed as we traveled was definitely different from the landscape we have in eastern Tennessee. There were times when we felt we were driving through the set of a western movie or television show. When we saw this town (our GPS said it was Laguna, New Mexico) in the distance we just had to pull over and get a picture.
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Looking Glass Falls is a beautiful waterfall near Brevard, North Carolina. Betsy and I have visited it many times over the years, and as we get older we appreciate it more and more. The waterfall is right by the roadside — no hiking required!
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