Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Little Tennessee River September 18, 2012
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Sunset at Holly Springs Baptist Church
After the BizWeek 2012 Banquet, I stepped outside the Fellowship Hall of the Holly Springs Baptist Church and saw a glorious sunset and hurried around to the upper side of the building so I could catch this shot of the building in silhouette.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Friday, December 30, 2011
2011: A Year in the Smokies
This is a short video by the Great Smoky Mountain Association highlighting the events and scenes in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park during the year of 2011.
Despite having been born in, and living most of my life, in the mountains of far western North Carolina, I've not been to this national park under my own power. The last time I was there was when my grandparents took me in the 1970s. Maybe I'll make it there this year or next.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Variations on a Reflection
Variations on processing a recent photo I took of Little Tennessee Rive in the Franklin Greenway along the Morris Trace. Clicking on the images will open a new tab or window to a larger version.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
The Aurora by Terje Sorgjerd
What an amazing universe we live in!!!!
See more work by Terje Sorgjerd at his Vimeo page and his facebook page.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Rob on the Road: National Parks
Rob Stewart (KVIE) of Rob on the Road discovers national parks in California. Rob explores the worlds tallest trees and amazing cavernous caves at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, hikes the stunning Lassen Volcanic National Park, captures the beauty of Yosemite Valley and delves into the personal journals of John Muir. For more visit Ron on the Road
One of these days, I'd like to visit these places...but for now, this is as close as I can get.
I'd love to spend a month shooting video and photos of Yosemite.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Sunrise at the Waterrock Knob Overlook
Today, I went up on the Blue Ridge Parkway to the Waterrock Knob Overlook to catch the sunrise and get some time lapse photos of the valley fog. Here are some of the photos and a brief video I took during the sunrise period, roll your mouse the photos for a description:
I have more photos and video that I will post tomorrow and Monday.
Offline Today
I've waited for a day when the forecast was for clear skies on the Blue Ridge Parkway with morning fog in the nearby valleys. That day has come, and I'll be attempting to capture some time lapses of the fog this morning.
Here is one of the videos I shot last year from the top of Waterrock Knob:
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
A Visit to Dry Falls
I visited Dry Falls yesterday afternoon to check out the waterfall and see what it looked like after a quick couple of inches of rain had fallen.
The waterfall looked completely different than when I had last visited in July of 2009. A couple of videos from that visit is below for your comparison:
I took a number of photos and here are a few of them, roll your mouse over the photos for a description:
I enjoyed this little excursion to the southern end of Macon County, and would like to visit the falls in the winter time to get a look at the icicles...but I very seriously doubt that I'll ever brave Highway 28 in that kind of weather. I'll leave that task to other, braver, people. ʘ‿ʘ
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
Discarded Cicada Skin
Cross-posted from WNC Citizens Blog...
It's that time of year, or if you're a Brood XIX Cicada, that time of your 13 year life cycle when you must crawl out of the ground, molt, eat, sing, mate, lay eggs, then die. Only this one didn't hit the snooze button and wait until 2011, when the rest of his/her brood will be emerging.
I did a little research via the Internet, and have surmised that it may belong to a brood of Cicadas known as 'The Great Southern Brood' that last emerged in 1998 and will be back in 2024. This is the only brood that has a known emergence in Macon County within five years of 2011. It is a straggler because it has emerged a year early. (Stragglers can emerge two years either side of the main brood).
Map Source: Magicicada
After years of living in underground tunnels, where they feed on the juices of roots, thousands of periodical cicadas emerge from the earth, as if by a predetermined signal, shed their nymphal skins, and spread out through the nearby trees and bushes.
The cicada's precise but prolonged time schedule has perhaps evolved as a method of survival for the masses. When a large population of juicy insects appears on the scene, predators make the most of the situation, but simply cannot eat all the insects. Thus, a significant number of cicadas live to reproduce.The periodical cicada is able to outlast and escape most of its enemies.
Any cicadas that merge near my house may have a rough go of it this year...due to the family of squirrels I have living in my Chinese Necklace Poplar tree. (A type of tree I do not recommend growing within 45 feet of your house or underground pipes...but that is a story for another day).
I haven't heard of other reports of emerging cicadas locally.
The above photo is of a discarded Cicada skin I noticed on the railing of my stairs this Saturday morning.
It's that time of year, or if you're a Brood XIX Cicada, that time of your 13 year life cycle when you must crawl out of the ground, molt, eat, sing, mate, lay eggs, then die. Only this one didn't hit the snooze button and wait until 2011, when the rest of his/her brood will be emerging.
I did a little research via the Internet, and have surmised that it may belong to a brood of Cicadas known as 'The Great Southern Brood' that last emerged in 1998 and will be back in 2024. This is the only brood that has a known emergence in Macon County within five years of 2011. It is a straggler because it has emerged a year early. (Stragglers can emerge two years either side of the main brood).
Brood XIX is the largest (by geographical extent) brood of 13-year cicadas. This brood is also notable for including the species M. neotredecim and exhibiting a striking pattern of reproductive character displacement between M. neotredecim and M. tredecim (Cooley et al. 2001; Marshall and Cooley 2000; Simon et al. 2000).
Map Source: Magicicada
After years of living in underground tunnels, where they feed on the juices of roots, thousands of periodical cicadas emerge from the earth, as if by a predetermined signal, shed their nymphal skins, and spread out through the nearby trees and bushes.
The cicada's precise but prolonged time schedule has perhaps evolved as a method of survival for the masses. When a large population of juicy insects appears on the scene, predators make the most of the situation, but simply cannot eat all the insects. Thus, a significant number of cicadas live to reproduce.The periodical cicada is able to outlast and escape most of its enemies.
Any cicadas that merge near my house may have a rough go of it this year...due to the family of squirrels I have living in my Chinese Necklace Poplar tree. (A type of tree I do not recommend growing within 45 feet of your house or underground pipes...but that is a story for another day).
I haven't heard of other reports of emerging cicadas locally.
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