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Blue Ridge Escarpment_04272022
Trip Journal: April 27 - May 4, 2022 The Blue Ridge Escarpment is a place of transition where the high mountains of Western North Carolina drop dramatically into the Piedmont of South Carolina and Georgia below. Steep elevational drops, high rates of precipitation,...
Trip Journal: April 20-26, 2022
Trip Journal: April 20-26, 2022The Blue Ridge Escarpment is a place of transition where the high mountains of Western North Carolina drop dramatically into the Piedmont of South Carolina and Georgia below. Steep elevational drops, high rates of precipitation, and...
PHT Spring Ephemerals 2022
Spring Ephemerals Along the PHTThe Potomac Gorge is a hotspot of biodiversity just upstream of the Nation's Capital, Washington D.C. Two ecoregions overlap at the fall line and a wild river runs through. I take multiple dayhikes along the Potomac Heritage Trail...
Oconee Bells 2022
Seeking "Perhaps The Most Interesting Plant..." Oconee Bells are rare wildflowers growing within the Jocassee Gorges region of Upstate South Carolina. Early American botanist Asa Gray spent a lifetime searching for Oconee Bells in the wild, largely unsuccessful. I...
Photo of the Day: March 5, 2022
Flexibility in the field is something I pride myself on. I shoot what the landscape tells me to shoot. No plan's so set in stone that I won't pivot and take advantage of natural gifts in my path. And on this evening, it was Cannonball Jellyfish. I walked past the...
Photo of the Day: March 4, 2022
Travel was shut down in 2020 as we all wrapped our heads around the novel coronavirus. That meant no trip to Charleston, South Carolina for me. Instead, I began to focus my attention on documenting the spring ephemeral wildflowers in my local parks. The Potomac...
Photo of the Day: March 3, 2022
March is all about the Lowcountry of South Carolina. There's no comparable in my annual photography travels. Color. So much color. The most amazing trees. Draping heavy to the ground--and below--and then back up again. Flowers. Riotous azalea. Spicy vanilla...
Photo of the Day: March 2, 2022
I'm partial to Oconee Bell wildflowers! Perhaps it's because I lived in Upstate South Carolina for almost a decade. I moved from Northern Virginia to Upstate South Carolina for college at Clemson University. After leaving for work, I returned again for a second...
Photo of the Day: March 1, 2022
March is about the forest floor. Life is anew. Spring ephemeral wildflowers begin to crowd the dirt, displacing last year's leaf litter with their hunger for sunlight. One of the first wildflowers to show at Riverbend Regional Park along the Potomac Heritage Trail...
Photo of the Day: February 28, 2022
As February draws to a close, it's time again for me to turn my attention away from the coast and into the forest. Life is certainly on the cusp of popping out of the thick leaf litter once again. And decay. Mushrooms and fungi. Like the False Turkey Tail Mushrooms...
Photo of the Day: February 27, 2022
"And then, some morning in the second week, the mind wakes, comes to life again. Not in a city sense--no--but beach-wise. It begins to drift, to play, to turn over in gentle careless rolls like those lazy waves on the beach. One never knows what chance treasures...
Photo of the Day: February 26, 2022
When I was a boy--aside from the obvious ball sports like basketball and football--I spent my time with a bunch of matchbox cars that I liked to line up and organize every day. I'm not sure what I got out of that. I also had a bunch of marbles and crayons. I've...
Photo of the Day: February 25, 2022
As a kid, my family always went to the Outer Banks in the heat of summer. I came to love the Outer Banks during summer. First, it was simply spending all day long in the waves. Not coming out until my eyes were bloodshot and my skin sunburned. Then, it was...
Photo of the Day: February 24, 2022
The Scotch Bonnet is considered, by many, to be the holy grail of beachcombing finds in North Carolina. This little three-inch long, plaid checkered sea snail shell is quite a difficult find. Oddly enough, the Scotch Bonnet was deemed the official state shell of...
Photo of the Day: February 23, 2022
Did you know that sea pottery, or sea china, was a thing? I didn't! Sea pottery is shards of broken earthenware that has undergone the same process as sea glass: broken, tumbled, smoothed and spit back into the shell hash with the tides. When I first started...