Uncategorized Coming out of his shell by user|Published May 18, 2015 This box turtle (the red eyes are characteristic of males) is exploring the woods near my home. Recent research places turtles closer to birds and dinosaurs than to lizards and snakes. Maybe that is why his face looks somehow prehistoric to me.
Published July 6, 2017 Rare Beauty For a few weeks in early summer, Gray’s lily brightens mountains in North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. They grow on grassy balds, […]
Published September 28, 2015 Syzygy When three celestial objects are aligned, it is known as syzygy, which also is a good scrabble word if you have no […]
Published September 13, 2015 Looking Glass Falls This falls is named for nearby Looking Glass Rock, a massive monolith almost 4000 feet tall named for the way its granite […]
Published June 2, 2015 Sun shower in an Appalachian mountain forest A brief but violent thunderstorm sent torrents of rain falling on the trees. There are dots and lines of rain both […]