The Mountains Whisper: Conveying a Sense of Time « The Great American Landscape

“To photograph truthfully is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live in all things.” – Ansel Adams (landscape photographer, 1902-1984)

Time is an element in each moment of our lives. Everything we do like driving to work, taking a vacation or even capturing a photograph occurs [...]

Another Blue Ridge Mountains Tract Protected

Another big chunk of North Carolina mountain property was recently protected from development.

An 8,000-acre tract that is the largest privately-owned wilderness in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains has been placed under contract to conservation groups for $33 million, they said today.

The Hendersonville-based Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy and the Conservation Fund, a national group, said they [...]

Watauga County Farmers Market – May 22

This is the only farmers market my family and I have visited in the High Country…A failure I would like to remedy. But the failure is not on the part of Watauga County Farmers’ Market. We always enjoyed our trips to the market and planned our meals around what we found there.

So if you are [...]

Historic Parkway Faces Challenges by Phil Francis

Back in March Phil Francis, Superintendent of the Blue Ridge Parkway, wrote an Op-ed in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. While it is a couple of months old. What he had to say has lost none of its relevance. For those of us who love these mountains and the roadway that runs their length his words hold [...]