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Grass Among Ferns

Flowering grasses share the spotlight with animated fronds of ferns on the forest floor.

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Content Published August 10, 2019

Mountain Grass Skyline Drive

Before the harsh morning light hits the valley, the mountain grasses see it first.

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Guardians of the Dark

At the edge of a forest sometimes there are signposts warning to go no further, but you have to know the language..

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Living With Rocks

When you live with rocks, you develop some well-worn scars.

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Content Published August 10, 2019

Just Another Day

After thousands of sunrises, just like this.

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Content Published August 10, 2019

Poconos Swimming Hole

A deep pool. A constant source of fresh mountain water. A diving rock. What more do we need?

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Content Published August 10, 2019

Quiet Evening on Lake Moomaw

The quiet on this mountain lake in the Appalachian Mountains, at this particular moment in time, was interrupted only by the light.

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Appalachian Headwaters

Classic Ltd Ed fine art photograph on rag paper

What often becomes raging waterfalls and rapids begins the journey as a quiet, placid pool.

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Highlands Mist

It had been raining all day. When the storm clouds cleared, the more recalcitrant among them lingered in the valley, where it was cool and calm. Couldn't blame them.

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Content Published August 10, 2019

A Walk Through the Hemlocks

In the panhandle of WV is a small tract of old growth hemlocks. Forever protected from the saw, but not from Nature.

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One Second Til Sunset

The last light of day shows us a dance in the valley as fog tries to crawl up the mountain side, only to be liberated as thin vapor, invisible to the eye.

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Adolation

Minions and those they adore.

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Standing in Obscurity

There are times when the stories told by Nature's characters involve a bit of mystery.

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Evening Drama in the Blue Ridge Mountains

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Last Light on the Allegheny Front

Waning light of the evening catches only the uppermost point along a rocky ridge in Dolly Sods Wilderness area.

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Content Published August 10, 2019

Pinnacle, Cunningham State Park

Portrait of a large catoctin bluestone rock after a rain.

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Shay Run in Delicate Times

At times, this stream in the Allegheny Mountains can become a raging river; not today. Today it's showing a more delicate character.

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Content Published August 10, 2019

Foot of the Fall

A close encounter at Elaka Falls, WV. Just letting the light go where it wants to go.

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Content Published August 10, 2019

Night Falling on a Beaver Pond

As night falls, the bright reflections of the sky give way to the mystery of the shadows.

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