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A Distant View of Appalachian Mountaintops and Ridges
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And Thus Did I Declare Amongst the Mountains...Hallelujah!
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Appalachian Trail One Early Winter Morning
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Still Finding The Way
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Through the Trees to Appalachian Hills and Mountains Beyond
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Autumn at Dockery Lake
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Color of Autumn at Dockery Lake
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Montaluce: Mountain of Light
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The late afternoon sun casts it's light upon the vines, slowly persuading the grapes to yield their sweet juices.
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In the vineyard
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the world to do. ~Galileo
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Dick's Creek Falls
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My 65 Falcon Sprint, November '09
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Tammy Ray's Ridler Award winning 1933 Ford Phaeton
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Hudson Auto Commodore
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Backyard greenery
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Big Cedar Mountain
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View from Black Mountain
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Swapped Channels
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“One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness: for the crops carried in from the fields and the grapes from the vineyard.”
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Wolf Mountain Winery
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Appalachian Trail, New Year's Day
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A Place for Reflection
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How Can They Not See the Beauty That Flourishes Amongst the Woods and Forest
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Summer Playground
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Afternoon Reflection
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Lightly Spoken Are the Words of the Wind Through the Forest Around Me
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I Was in Solitude Even as I Walked Amongst the Tall Trees (Appalachian National Scenic Trail)
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Autumn Sun
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I Walked Towards the Break of a New Day
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Clay Creek Falls
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Dick's Creek Falls
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Dick's Creek Falls
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God in His goodness sent the grapes, to cheer both great and small; little fools will drink too much, and great fools not at all.