Today was a perfect 70’s, sunny, gentle wind day in a really beautiful place with wonderful company. Can’t ask for more.
We hiked the trail to the Rocky Knob. On the way we stopped at his old Appalachian trail shelter. The trail used to run along this ridge, but was rerouted west. John on the trail. It is very lush in this section. Lots of ferns.
The trail passes the Rocky Knob picnic area. The storm dropped this tree onto a couple of picnic tables. John on a grassy bald along the trail.
a giant mushroom. The top of another grassy bald. The scrubby looking trees are hawthorn. The flowers are ox eye daisy’s. Common meadow daisy's they call them.
John visionary pose, surveying the realm. John walking back.
Hawthorn- big thorns. Deptford pink.
John waiting for me on a white quartz boulder. Cows waiting for us at the trailhead.
herd of calves, the landscape drops of steeply into the Rock Castle gorge here.
twilight. The sunset brilliant red here, like molten glass, but I could not get the color to come out in a photo.
Another nice sunset
The almost full moon rising in the sunset. Sue and John
again. The last of the sunset.
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