Waterfall Digital Photography

One of the most common questions that I’m asked is ‘how do I photograph waterfalls?’

Waterfalls do present themselves as a wonderful and challenging subject matter to photographers. Firstly they’re beautiful places, secondly they are often in tricky lighting situation and thirdly they’re a dynamic subject as they’re moving (and of course movement means a [...]

Editorial – Endangered Parks – NYTimes.com

There are more than 13 million acres of state parks in the United States. The national park system is far bigger — some 84 million acres — but state parks are far more heavily used, if only because they are our neighborhood parks. As states look for ways to slash budgets during this recession, [...]

Four Years Ago Today • North Carolina Mountain Dreams

Mast General Store, Valle Crucis

I don’t remember what it was that first pulled me to Valle Crucis when I was planning our 2003 Vacation. I had fallen in love with the Blue Ridge Mountains on my Charlotte trip in 2000. During that trip I had cruised from Blowing Rock south through Little Switzerland [...]

Watauga County Farmers’ Market Starts It’s New Season This Weekend • North Carolina Mountain Dreams

Always our favorite shopping experience while in the High Country, The Watauga County Farmers’ Market is where we plan our meals for the week. It is always a friendly, community based, market day.

The Watauga County Farmers’ Market will be opening for it’s 37th season this Saturday May 1. The Mountain Alliance will be there [...]

Naturalist Weekend – Grandfather Mountain • North Carolina Mountain Dreams

May 15-16, 2010

The Grandfather Mountain Naturalist Weekend is a fascinating collection of programs and guided walks offered to help guests discover “nature on a whole different level.”

Grandfather’s programs pull together presentations of superior quality because our staff has relationships with the top natural resource professionals in the region. These exceptional teachers and interpreters [...]

AIBS BioScience Press Releases | Eastern US Forests Resume Decline

I found a reference to this article on the Yale Environment 360 blog. If you haven’t heard of them add them to your feed reader for a while…You might discover a new source of news you can use.

After increasing during much of the 20th century, forest cover in the eastern United States in recent [...]