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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. |
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Danielle at the bottom of a
steep
slope
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Danielle and Kelly Ramster
(now
Boadway) lining up the next boundary tree
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Josh after flagging and
painting a
boundary tree
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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 |
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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.
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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
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Shaggy Scarlet Cup
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The unique flowers of
Albizzia
tree, a widespread Asian import along
roadsides
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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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Queener 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. This was where we slept our first night!
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This deserted platform
overlooking
the gorge was probably the most
interesting spot I've ever thrown my sleeping bag. Mammoth
Cave
was a disappointment after this!
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From a nearby overlook,
Sasha and
I were able to see a small block that
was our camp the night before, above the cliff-side.
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After being sent to a
campsite at
Mammoth Cave that required a
non-operational ferry to get across, we camped on the side of the Green
river, seeing Prothonotary warblers and this scene the next morning.
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A wrong turn on the way home
from
Mammoth Cave allowed us to visit
Cumbland Falls, capping off a trip filled with fortunate mistakes!
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Near Cumberland Falls
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Near Cumberland Falls
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Near the end of the season,
a
friend of a friend of a friend supplied
us with a free white water rafting trip
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Of everything I'd seen in
the
season, the landscape near the Tennessee
/ North Carolina border was some of the most beautiful
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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 lifts 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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