(This picture can be enlarged by clicking on it. Clicking a second time will make it full-sized.)When we were in North Carolina at the end of January, Betsy and I visited the Falls on Reems Creek in Weaverville, North Carolina. The falls is caused...

(This picture can be enlarged by clicking on it. Clicking a second time will make it full-sized.)I snapped this picture of my Beautiful Bride in March, 2010. We were celebrating my birthday in a cabin at Serenity Falls near Cosby, Tennessee, in...

(This picture can be enlarged by clicking on it. Clicking a second time will make it full-sized.)Betsy and I visit Mount Nebo in Arkansas every year, usually in the late winter or early spring. We visit at that time because waterfalls usually...

(This picture can be enlarged by clicking on it. Clicking a second time will make it full-sized.)The Upper Waterfall on Falls Run in Blackwater State Park in West Virginia .is not off a park trail. To reach it I had to bushwhack down the stream...

(This picture can be enlarged by clicking on it. Clicking a second time will make it full-sized.)We've had Melody Parfumée rose for several years. It's a grandiflora rose, I really like the unusual color, and it has a very pleasant, old-rose ...

(This picture can be enlarged by clicking on it. Clicking a second time will make it full-sized.)Fairfield Glade is blessed with several lakes. Last month, on a beautiful February day, Betsy and I walked around one of the smaller lakes. The sky...

(This picture can be enlarged by clicking on it. Clicking a second time will make it full-sized.)While driving Newfound Gap Road through the Smokies from Cherokee, North Carolina, to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Betsy and I stopped at an overlook in...

(This picture can be enlarged by clicking on it. Clicking a second time will make it full-sized.)This picture was taken in December, 2010. Betsy and I had gone to Ocean Isle Beach in North Carolina to enjoy the beach and get some good seafood....