Category Archives: nature/landscape

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Skywatch Friday #10

Posted on 18 September 2008 by

Photograph: A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. – Ambrose Bierce – Sunset on Lake Hickory – Catawba County, NC

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Skywatch Friday #9

Posted on 11 September 2008 by

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which, in itself, is a concept of time. – Joseph Beuys – Clouds and fog over the Blue Ridge in North Carolina.

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Songbird

Posted on 2 September 2008 by

In order to see birds it is necessary to become part of the silence. – Robert Lynd – The white-breasted nuthatch is a familiar sight in Hickory. They forage along tree trunks and branches, often hanging upside down, in search … Continue reading →

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Skywatch Friday #6

Posted on 22 August 2008 by

I hear them whisper your name, those mighty winds that blow, I know that you are close at hand the winds just told me so. – Marge Tindal (Whispering Winds) – Today’s SWF photo is The Blowing Rock – which … Continue reading →

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Garden Waterfall

Posted on 19 August 2008 by

To lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. – Sir John Lubbock –

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Misty Mountains

Posted on 17 August 2008 by

“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it “the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist – Edgar Allan Poe This photo is not retouched (only … Continue reading →

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