Photoblog challenge day 5: forest reflected in Falls Lake.

line of trees on far shore of lake and reflected in water


Photoblog challenge day 4: variegated orange marigolds with bumblebee photobomb


I am going to take the fish in a barrel approach to today’s photoblog challenge and call this precious.


Photoblog challenge day 2: A buildup of moss and leaf litter somewhere on Occaneechee Mountain.


Photoblog challenge day 1: abstract.



This week on The Road to Jockey’s Ridge, I learn some geology, explore a small patch of prairie, and meet a strange old man who tells me the legend of Sisyphus of the Eno.


View from my lunch.


New on my Mountains-to-Sea Trail Substack: Ghosts above the Falls. Echoes of labor in the landscape, prayers for the builders of a bridge, and cicadas.


Falls Dam again, this time from upstream. It is five miles of trail from the dam to get to this view, though it can’t be more than a mile as the crow flies.