And Then It Just Lifted Away

Over the twenty years that Purchase Knob has been part of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, its Beauty has given Bonnie and me countless hours of pleasure and creative opportunity. Often we have navigated to the Jonathan Creek Valley thinking that our drive was in...

Elephant in the Rock

Capitol Gorge Trail follows the track of the original settlers’ road from Notom to Torrey through the wonders of the Waterpocket Fold and some of Capitol Reef National Park’s most fascinating geology. My limited knowledge of geology imagines this structure...

Goblins Turned Monochrome

The stark tonalities of Entrada sandstone on a late-afternoon cloudless Southern Utah day make the decision to create a black-and-white conversion of the hoodoo population of Goblin Valley and the  ever-watchful peaks of the Henry Mountains to the southwest both...

The Burrrr Trail

John Atlantic Burr was born in 1846 while his parents, Charles and Sarah, were aboard the SS Brooklyn somewhere in the Atlantic on their way to San Francisco, thence to Salt Lake City to follow their faith as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints...

Emptying into White

Good morning Everyone. The lower reaches of the crest ridge of the Smokies below Mount Kephart are seen from near Thomas Divide on a morning filled with fog from an overnight rain. As the rising mists come and go, the moving clouds reveal and then quickly cover nearly...