Moses H. Cone Memorial Park, Blowing Rock, NC

Just getting my blogging feet wet, but my goal is to make this a picture blog first and a place for random thoughts second (maybe even a distant second). I've still got lots of pictures to sort through, work tasks to attend to, teenagers to pick up and drop off and pick up and (well, you probably know the drill), so posting will be a bit sporadic for a while...

In the meantime, here is my first picture post. These pictures were taken at Moses H. Cone Memorial Park (click here too!), along the Blue Ridge Parkway outside of Blowing Rock, NC. Enjoy!


Trail riders with the Cone mansion, Flat Top Manor, in the background.


A view of Grandfather Mountain looking south from the Flat Top Trail. This trail is part of the 25 miles of carriage trails used by hikers, joggers, and horse back riders (sorry, no bikes allowed).


Boone, NC looking northwest from the Flat Top Mountain lookout (Oops, I left the UV filter back at the house...).


Strange mushrooms growing on the side of a tree.


The Flat Top Trail approaching the Blue Ridge Parkway about 1/2 mile from the Cone mansion.


Fun with software: I took the color picture of this old, rotted fence post on the hike, then copied and filtered it in black & white and in sepia using Picasa.

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Ahh, our base of operations in North Carolina, aka "The Mountain Retreat", nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Look, Poppy's new workshop is beginning to take shape!

Thanks for stopping by! More pictures to come!

All pictures in this post were taken with a 6.3 megapixel Nikon D50 Digital SLR on September 9^th, 2005.