
A small creek on the way to
our
Sundquist study site.
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The old highway 63, running
parallel to the interstate.
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One of the many small,
winding
roads that twist through the hills,
tributary to the highway.
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Cove Lake State Park, as seen from our daily drive
to and from the mountains.
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Our backyard. I
spent many
hours sitting here playing guitar and
chatting with our friendly neighbours.
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Rhododendron on a trail in
Cove
Lake.
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Rhododendron
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A view over a logging cut on
our
way up Red Oak Mountain (to our study
sites)
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The last leg of our morning
commute, several kilometers of rough road
on a two-wheel drive minivan!
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One of the many creeks down
in our
plots
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A particularly dense part of
the
road in
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Down in the plot
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Our magnificent van, scarred
with
the wounds of battle after the
season. |

Danielle at the bottom of a
steep
slope
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Danielle and Kelly lining up the next boundary tree
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After flagging and painting a boundary tree for one
of the study plots
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Tiffany below one of our
Cerulean
nests, explaining the veg procedure
on our first day of the second half of the season |

Showy Orchid, common in Royal Blue at the beginning
of the season.
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A Red Eft, always underfoot
near
the end of the season |

While doing my spot maps one
morning, I chanced upon this sleeping fawn
and got one half-decent picture before running out of film
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Flame Azalea |

Shaggy Scarlet Cup
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The unique flowers of
Albizzia
tree, a widespread Asian import along
roadsides |

Box Turtle
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Chicory
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A surprise while reaching
for a
blackberry
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Local roads through the
hills,
smothered in Kudzu, the invasive vine
from Asia
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I was on my way home from
the
store (taking the scenic route!) when I
stopped to take this picture
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OQueener
Road, my home for
three
months
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Our "complex"
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This was the last day at the
house, most everyone else had already left
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Cove Lake
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Cove Lake
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Sasha and I made a couple day road trip into Kentucky
to go to Mammoth Cave.
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Mammoth Cave was a disappointment after this
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From a nearby overlook, we were able to see a small
block that
was our camp the night before, above the cliff-side.
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We camped on the side of the Green River
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A wrong turn on the way home from Mammoth Cave
allowed us to visit Cumberland Falls
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Near Cumberland Falls
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Near Cumberland Falls
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A friend of a friend of a friend supplied
us with a free white water rafting trip |

Tthe landscape near the Tennessee
/ North Carolina border
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Still along the river
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A
view from the trip
home
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My last night in Tennessee
was
spent in Smoky Mountain National Park
with Tiffany
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The panoramic views from
Clingman's Dome were replaced by an eerie fog
landscape, not what we'd expected, but still great
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Finally the mist begins to lift on our way down the
mountain
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This Great Blue Heron
allowed me
to approach within nearly 20 feet to
take this picture.
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