From the Archives of 2009—North Carolina
December 3, 2023
When I used to drive back to Ohio from Florida, I would often stay a night or two with my old college roommate Erika in North Carolina. Since graduation, we had each become interested in photography, so she was keen to show me some of her favorite places to take photographs. If you have followed this blog for very long, you know that I seldom take big-picture landscapes. But the wide and deep vistas of the North Carolina mountains were irresistible.
1 The first stop on our May 15 outing was to a park whose name I no longer remember. I was taken by the various colors of the rocks in this mountain stream.
2 The park was probably not very far from Hendersonville, which is where Erika lived.
3 The next stop was to take in a view of Looking Glass Rock.
4 We stopped again later for another look.
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6 I don’t know if there was a name for where we went next. I just remember that the road kept climbing and climbing. And that storm clouds were gathering.
7 We could see them heading our way.
8 This is one of the last photographs I took before the deluge.
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