Blue Ridge Parkway, NC
Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina
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Jean viewing Blue Ridge Mountains from the Pisgah Inn restaurant.

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Looking southwest from the patio at the Pisgah Inn restaurant.

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Full moon over the Blue Ridge Mountains, viewed from Pisgah Inn restaurant.

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Tree log along Mount Pisgah Trail from Blue Ridge Parkway.

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Painted trillium along Mount Pisgah Trail.

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Rhododendrum blossoms along Mount Pisgah Trail.

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Cold Mountain, North Carolina, viewed from summit of Mount Pisgah.

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Clouds over Cold Mountain.

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Jean walking on the Pink Beds Loop in the Cradle of Forestry National Historic Site near Brevard, NC.

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False Solomon's Seal growing along Pink Beds Loop.

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Mist rises from hills near Devil's Courthouse following a thunderstorm.

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Looking Glass Rock following an afternoon thunderstorm.

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Jean on the stairway down to Graveyard Fields at Milepost 418 on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

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The Lower Falls of the Yellowstone Prong of Pigeon River in Graveyard Fields.

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Jean and Tim at Lower Falls in Graveyard Fields.

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Wooden fence on Graveyard Fields loop trail.

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Graveyard Fields is recovering from a 1925 forest fire.

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Painted trillium along Graveyard Fields trail looks lonely.

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Rhododendron along Graveyard Fields trail.

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Rhododendron blossoms along Graveyard Fields trail.

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Upper Falls at the far end of the Graveyard Fields trail loop.

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Painted tillium along Graveyard Fields trail.

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Graveyard Fields is recovering from a 1925 fire that scorched the land.