The Roan Highlands 2025Summer | Southern Appalachian Mountains | North Carolina + TennesseeFrom the journal: June 27, 2025 (travel day)I love thunderstorms. They remind me of fireworks. Not the aesthetic parts, but all the feeling parts. The intensity. ...
Hiding Among Tall Grasses Gray's Lilies are globally rare wildflowers growing within critically imperiled habitat. I travel to the grassy balds of the Roan Highlands to visit the largest known population of these wonderful Southern Appalachian wildflowers. Late...
I'm very pleased to have another opportunity with Our State Magazine this month, June 2016. This is my third month in a row of working with the magazine and I couldn't be more pleased with all of the stories and their collective geographic reach: April a photograph...
The grasses I travel through are far taller than the mid-height of my hiking boots allowing the moisture to wick down through my socks. My feet are soaking despite the Gore-Tex lining within my boots. It's just after sunrise on the temperate grassy balds of the Roan...