Caves, 6 Falls, the early morning moon, an archer, doves, and dragonflies… makes for a hard choice for 29of52 #2019Project52 +finger update.

I’d been to Linville Caverns so long ago that no part of it look familiar or was tucked away in my memory. That may be a good thing because it mostly it was wet, cramped and the only thing I really heard was to watch our heads. We were with family so that made it all okay, just spending time with them. I took four photos but the only one I liked was the cobweb I saw while we were waiting.

E L E V E N H O U R S

Plans are nothing; planning is everything —Dwight D. Eisenhower

I can see for miles and miles — NOT.

Well, that was part of the plan anyway after reading Rich Stevenson post about

Autumn sunrise, a few falls and a capture I’ve been wanting to get.

Since it doesn’t look like we’ll ever be doing away with time change, June and I decided to get up to view the almost 8am sunrise. Still up at 5am for coffee and the hour long drive to get

Falls Falls Falls in Fall

We drove to these falls by way of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

I went ahead and had my full pot of coffee and was quite surprised to see all the Parkway bathrooms closed with portajohns in their place.

We can usually drag-out leaf chasing around here

If we start in the higher elevations and move to lower elevations, then over the state line to South Carolina, we typically can visually soak up more than the average leaf peeper.

But this year,

Shootin in the rain, just shootin in the rain

A week after going to South Carolina, Marjorie and I went out in the rain here in Western NC, starting in Flat Rock.

I discovered my jacket was only a windbreaker, and not waterproof. I may look into getting one of those tripod umbrella holders. 

South Carolina photo outing

Finding new places in SC with Marjorie, another photog and friend, was fun and all where easy walks. Not sure what we were thinking, going South as hot as it is.

Do you hear banjos?

Pass Max Patch, taking a right at Rattlesnake Gap, in Cherokee National Forest and bouncing down the narrow 4WD necessary road/trail to Wolf Creek Falls was one of the toughest roads we’ve ever taken to a waterfall. 

Historic Johnson Farms, WaterFALLing in HSF, shoulder@6 months and Florence

 

I think I’ve been to Historic Johnson Farms three times now but the first two were during their spring festival event. It’s open when the schools are open to the public to walk around for free and I met a photographer friend there to walk and shoot.