Highlighted by the Sun

Fall colors highlighted with the soft light of an autumn afternoon.

Most of the time it doesn't work to take a picture into the sun light, but in this case the sun highlighted the colors of the trees and brought the ridges to life by giving them a gentle glow. 

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life."

        Rachael Carson (1907-1964): American Nature Writer, Marine Biologist

Black Bear

Black Bear at Grandfather Mountain

"When a pine needle falls in the forest, the eagle sees it, the deer hears it and the bear smells it."

Old Indian Proverb

There's Gold in Them There Hills!

Gold in the Smokies.

While many may search for gold the in the mineral form, I go in search of another kind of gold in them there hills! 

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

          Henry David Thoreau (1817- 1862):  American Author, Poet, Naturalist, Philosopher

Which Wolf Do You Feed?

What an amazing carving of an Indian overlooking Spring Creek near downtown
Tuscumbia, AL. Someone took the time to carve an Indian out of a dead tree standing on the bank near Spring Creek. It is amazing the talent and abilities God has given each of us. Do you know and use your talent?

How often do we look at things or someone and only see the outer shell? As in the case of the ole dead, weathered gray body of a tree with no limbs and leaves in the picture above, how many of us would have seen the beauty within as did the person who sculpted out the Indian. Do you look at life and only see the outer shell or do you see  into the heart?

"A Native American Grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear, greed and hatred. "Which wolf will win, grandfather?" ask the young boy. "Which ever one I feed," is the reply."
            Native American Proverb