Banks of the River

On a trip to Asheville, NC I stopped along the French Broad River tp tale some photos and here are a few of them.

Looking Up and Down, Clemson Arboretum

Wherever I go I make sure to look both up and down (and both ways crossing the street}. Places like the arboretum are particularly rewarding when looking around with the canopies of dogwoods in flower and the other trees filtering the Spring light and the flowers that are in the line of sight when looking dow.

Woods Near Pisgah Inn

Our Friends’ Yard

On our Maine trip we visited friends whom we have not seen in a while and here is their yard. It encapsulates what I think is the essence of Maine in the fall..

Reedy River Park 1

Yesterday Alice and I went to downtown Greenville to stroll around the park. The experience reminded me of a stroll in Central Park in NYC.

Small Vistas

On the Blue Ridge it is not just the big vistas that count but the small ones, too. Mu wife, Alice saw the red  salamander first.

Nature

I am still cruising old files and found the nature pictures below. They make an interesting counterpoint to yesterday’s images of an old industrial site.

Reedy River Walk, Greenville, SC

I like to look at my old files to discover things I had not thought about for a while and I found some images from a walk Alice and I took a few years ago. I like the moving water and the the climbing vegetation creeping up a wall. These images are more restful than the street scenes from the last few blogs.

More Oregon Coast

Some places are hard to leave and the Oregon coast is one of them.

And Some More

There are clusters of pictures that I have a hard time leaving and the Oregon series might go on for a bit longer.

Bamboo Two

Taking pictures in a place like a bamboo forest or any dense forest is that initially everything looks alike but after a while each view is a bit different and the challenge begins to be how to best represent those subtle (to me) differences.

More Table Rock

Table Rock State Park

Last week Alice and I took a walk around the lake at Table Rock State Park which is close to home. Woods walks are most interesting to me as the last leaves are falling and the tree branches show their forms. I also like the late fall look of some of the wild flowers.

Arrowmont Wanderings

Wandering around the campus I saw ivy on the walls and the yellow leaves amid the green caught my eye; the deck with the chairs and fallen dogwood petals made a lovely, quiet sense of place and finally, the irresistible selfie in one of the studios, my reflection on a large pot.