Just back from the beach, and before heading out to the Smoky Mountains trails again, I wanted to share some photos of people having a good time on vacation. I enjoyed a sunrise walk every morning, feet in the water, taking in all the activity even at that early hour....
Last day at the beach ... Headed back home to Gatlinburg tomorrow.
Several months ago I wrote a little thing about creating zen rock stacks near my home in the Smoky Mountains. There seems to be an almost universal relationship between man and rocks that is reflected in the creation of these zen stacks. Recently I traveled all the...
The cave pictured here is Sea Anemone Cave near Acadia National Park, in Maine. The photo below was taken by me in 1974, a 25-year-old camper with a brand new twin-lens Mamiya C330 medium format camera that I used for black and white landscapes. An Ansel Adams...
Today's miles away pictures are from a recent trip to Bar Harbor, Maine. Bar Harbor is to Acadia National Park what Gatlinburg is to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A tourist town on the edge of great beauty. In the picture above you can see the little...
Where does a Smoky Mountain resident go to get miles away? To the beach! The picture above is one of those soft pastel dawns near the ocean. You can almost feel the moist salt breeze. In the distance is the Myrtle Beach skyline, taken from my 11th floor condo...
Spent a week at the beach, just south of Myrtle Beach in Garden City Beach, SC. My son Justin and I had a working getaway ... me taking stock images most days, while he set up a water's edge office for telecommuting. Keep an eye out for some of the beach images coming...
Here's a tip for those hot summer days touring around the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: the best lemonade is over in Mt. Sterling near the entrance to the Big Creek section of the Park. It's a bit of an effort to get to this lemonade stand, but it could be...
If you are ever traveling on NC Route 284 between Cosby, TN, and the Cataloochee Valley in the Great Smoky Mountains, you might find yourself in need of a rest stop. Now this is a fine gravel highway with some excellent gift shops along the way (see below). If you...
We traveled to flood-stricken Nashville, TN this past weekend to attend the Tennessee Association of Craft Artists (TACA) outdoor fair. The fair is nestled in Centennial Park every May, beneath the view of an 1897 full-scale replica of the Parthenon. Most of the art...
Last weekend Sarah and I traveled to Nashville for a birthday/anniversary/visit grand-daughter trip. Friday night we headed down to the Ryman Auditorium, original home of the Grand Ole Opry. Wow, they were all old geezers! But then, come to think of it ... I'm a...