Chestnut Ridge Heritage Preserve
Took dog for a sunny morning walk around Chestnut Ridge in upstate SC three weeks into February and did not expect to find bloodroot.
2022
Mostly garden pics. Grew all of the flowers. And more of the flowers. And more. Grew some vegetables. And a bunch of tomatoes… Took a few short…
Weekend Wandering
Some pictures from Long Branch Environmental Education Center. This place was pretty neat. Some pictures from a short walk in Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest, an old growth…
Garden Poppies
Playing around with evening light and the poppies growing in my garden. (Also realizing it’s time for me to figure out how to clean the sensor on…
Sam’s Knob
Went out to my favorite spot over the weekend. Dodder has taken over the high spot above the meadow below Sam’s Knob. Flowers in the meadow. Lots…
Garden Critters and Blooms
Flying Cloud Farm is only 6 miles from my apartment. They have community UPick flower fields, so I find myself there with my macro lens pretty often.…
January, so far.
You guessed it. Another moody, gloomy, winter botanicals post. I can’t get enough of these dreamy vintages lenses. I could walk around anywhere all day and not…
Garden Project – June Update
The garden has quadrupled in size. (Hoping that diatomaceous earth will take care of what I think are flea beetles munching on the eggplant.)
Congaree National Park
There is a national park in the middle of nowhere in the middle of South Carolina. Who knew. It’s a pretty cool place with a really neat…
Cat Gap Loop
Some pictures from a walk on Cat Cap Loop trail in Pisgah National Forest. The lady slippers were not quite ready to bloom, but hopefully I’ll see…
Garden Project – update
The beds are set up and all of the planting happened over the weekend! We have ten different tomato plants (at least), basil, eight different pepper plants…
Garden Project
Early in the spring I started a container garden outside my front door. Here are early photos from the first week of May: Here are photos from…
Early morning walk in the dew
Here are some photos from a really nice morning a few weeks ago. I woke up early and saw that my corner of the world was drenched…
Laurens, South Carolina
Upstate South Carolina is full of old textile towns and I think they’re so fun to explore. Even though it’s much hotter down there, I could spend…
Appalachian Spring Wildflowers: Part 2
Mostly fiddlehead ferns (they’re so sweet and whimsical!), bellwort, chickweed, solomon’s seal, and dwarf crested iris.
Appalachian Spring Wildflowers: Part 1
Some photos from a few different walks in the woods in April. Jack-in-the-pulpit, more spring beauty, trillium, fleabane, more ragwort, dutchman’s breeches, tons of violets, and a…
Moon shots
Some shots of the moon as we lead up to a (hopefully clear) full moon weekend – the first full moon with my new lens.
Bloodroot on the Appalachian Trail
Spending time in the woods yesterday reminded me of yet another Mary Oliver poem: ‘How I go to the woods’. Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone,…
Soft mornings
There is magic in quiet mornings. Mary Oliver sums it up in one of my favorite poems, ‘Softest of Mornings’. (Okay, every poem Mary Oliver ever wrote…
Moon and birds
I took my new zoom lens out for its first spin during an early morning moonrise. I quickly learned variable aperture = learning curve. The sun was…
Up Popped the Crocus
I was walking through a residential neighborhood in West Asheville earlier in the week when I spotted dozens of crocus on the edge of the lawn ahead.…
February
Just some pics from February. The flowers have started to pop up, so this will be my last gloomy post for a while. Pics from Catawba Falls.…
Marion and Clinchfield Mill.
Photos taken east of Asheville, NC The photos below were taken at a Clinchfield Mill in Marion, NC. It burned down a few years ago.
Light and Shadow
Found some free time and sunshine over the weekend. The quiet time was lovely and it was fun experimenting with light and shadows. Mulatu even sat still…
Nine Million Rainy Days
Today I took an afternoon walk during what seems like the mine millionth day of gloomy, wintry rain and snow. Here are some pictures of things that…
Inside Newry Mill
I found some backup and went back to explore the inside of the old Newry cotton mill. Once you’re inside it isn’t as spooky as I thought…
December
The last few Decembers have been tricky. Emotionally exhausting. Sad. Gloomy. Anxiety all the time. The gray December weather never helps. Right now I’m feeling pretty ready…
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