Blue Ridge Country May/June 2024 - 55

OPENING SPREAD: Grassy Ridge,
Roan Highlands, Tennessee/North
Carolina. From the photographer:
" Each year there's a three- to fourday
window when the delicate
magenta blossoms of Catawba
rhododendron paint the shrubdominated
ridgelines of Roan
Mountain with vibrant color. It's
every photographer's dream-
certainly mine-to align this short
bloom period with interesting
atmospheric conditions. On
this morning, everything came
together. Following a three-mile,
dark hike over open, grassy
balds along the Appalachian
Trail, I perched myself high atop
a natural garden of flowering
rhododendron. As the sun began
to rise from the east, it seemed
to pull an inverted cloud from the
west ever so softly over Roan High
Knob. " Photo by Mark VanDyke
RIGHT: Beech Gap in fog at
Graybeard Overlook on the
North Carolina Blue Ridge
Parkway milepost 363.4. From
the photographer: " Slowly these
ancient trees are dying from
beech bark disease and/or
beech leaf disease. A low cloud
deck shrouded the gap in fog
on this day adding a measure of
softness. It was a time of absolute
wonderment and photographic
ecstasy. The high altitude
(above 5,000 feet) stunts the
trees' growth so they don't give
away their age. Treasure these
moments. When they are gone
it is likely for a very long time. "
Photo by Nye Simmons
LOWER RIGHT: Photographed
near the Elizabethton (Tennessee)
Covered Bridge. From the
photographer: " I saw a great blue
heron fishing at the weir dam and
then noticed the goldenrod near
it as well! I moved slowly to get
all of the elements lined up and
not scare the heron. I then took
a few shots, but thought, what if I
could do a longer exposure? Not
having a tripod with me, I braced
as well as I could and got this shot
at 1/10th of a second letting the
water and flowers move in the
final image. Amazingly the heron
stands still as a statue! "
Photo by Jay Huron
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