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Preparing for Tomorrow, and Enjoying Today.

10/19/2015

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Day 22

The other day when I made the “plein air” piece at Cades Cove, I never got the shadows correct. People converged too quickly and too frequently for me to get them down before they changed again! Consequently the whole thing is very flat. I will be doing another one at Oconaluftee tomorrow, but I have an advantage this time. I got to take the earlier pictures of the place at about the time I will be arriving on Tuesday to do my work. So today I “cheated” and used one of those photos to block out the large areas of the composition, so I can just get down to the magic of details tomorrow. I am already seeing a great improvement with this one.

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 For the rest of the day, I went to explore another area of the park; the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail. I didn’t have big expectations for this. The road to it leads out of the middle of Gatlinburg, and with a name like “motor nature trail” ... BUT let that be a lesson; It was fantastic! People, yes, but n ot too many. Fantastic waterfalls to reward you for a long and winding multi-mile hike, several old homesteads where you can wander as you wish, and a tiny old mill by ‘the old mill stream’. The Roaring Fork stream winds with the one-way, one-lane road and the speed limit is 10mph, but usually slower.

The trail was not so steep, but, as you can see in the photos, the roots were amazing and treacherous. 
It inspired me to compose the lyrics for a new country western song:
"When you're hiking through life,
and the hand you hold isn't with you,
it is good to have a walking stick" 


I hope these pictures just give you a taste of another little piece of paradise!
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Gail Asbury link
10/19/2015 07:12:17 pm

Lovely! Quite the song too! Those roots are treacherous. There are a lot of them up in the flumes and gorges of big waterfalls up north from us. One can barely walk over them without falling. Would make a really great quilt though I've always loved the beauty of those thirsty bare roots.

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