4-21-17. The view of the Cumberland River from the terrace of the Dupont Lodge.
4-21-17. One of my favorite views of the Cumberland River. The corrugated stone leading to the river.
4-21-17. Smoother stone .
4-21-17. The Falls with lots of water coming through.
4-22-17. Several views of a rapidly changing sunrise from the Foothills Parkway in the Smokies, with clouds and fog.
4-22-17. A bright caterpillar, still unidentified.
4-22-17. Clump of Dwarf Crested Iris by the banks of Middle Prong at Tremont.
4-21-17. Water on some lovely long-spur Violets.
4-22-17. Very Glad to see the Showy Orchis coming back at Tremont.
4-22-17. Clump of Showy Orchis.
4-22-17. One of my favorite streams at Tremont.
4-22-17. A different version of one of my favorite places. Having the water ragged, instead of smoothing it, gives a sense of power and sound of the splashing, rushing waters.
4-22-17. The Upstate Raptor Center brought some of its beautiful rescue birds for us to photograph. This is a lovely barn owl. I would love to have one in my barn.
4-22-17. Red Screech Owl.
4-22-17. Red-Tail Hawk. I liked this expression.
4-22-17. Chris, one of the Tremont Staff who also volunteers with Upstate Raptor, holding a Red Tail Hawk. It is eating a mouse in his hand.
4-22-17. Beautiful Barred Ow just having recuperated from a wing amputation.
4-22-17. Grey Screech Owl.
4-22-17. At this workshop, I worked on shutter speed on moving water. This is a slower speed creating silky water. Cable Mill.
4-24-17. Faster shutter speed showing splashing water,
4-24-17. Mini garden growing from a tree trunk in Cades Cove.
4-24-17. The next images are from a branch I found on the ground in Cades Cove. It had the most amazing lichens, in all stages! All of a sudden lichens were fascinating. Blow them up and look at the detail!
04-24-17. Miami Mist. Just starting to bloom. Many other wildflowers had already bloomed early.
4-24-17. Middle Prong after the serious rains of the day before. High water and debris swept down the stream.
4-25-17. Back to Kentucky on the way home and discovered the rains had been much heavier there. Cumberland River had covered much of what I like to photograph and access was closed off. The corrugated stone is under this.
4-25-17. The Falls were really raging! Compare to the Friday picture.
4-25-17. Another view of flooding and debris.
4-25-17. This sort of says it all! Time to go home.
