We took a week-long trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park via Skyline Drive of Shenandoah National Park and Blue Ridge Parkway last week. Skyline Drive still had lots of beautiful autumn colors – we spent whole day driving from Front Royal, the Northern […]
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Autumn Colors on Skyline Drive of Shenandoah National Park
I took a day trip to Shenandoah National Park yesterday. The fall colors along the Skyline Drive were brilliant. However, the colors on some of the distant mountains have not fully developed yet – may be another week.

Autumn Colors at the Great Falls of Potomac River and C&O Canal
I took a morning walk at the Maryland side of the Great Falls and the tow path of C&O Canal yesterday. The air was cool but fresh and the autumn colors were brilliant.

Gateway Arch at Saint Louis
We are visiting our daughter’ family in Wichita, Kansas vis Saint Louis, Missouri. Naturally, we toured Gateway Arch and also took a brief river cruise on Mississippi River. Here are some pictures of Arch taken from the land and also from the water.

Rapids of Little River, Great Smoky Mountains
I took these pictures at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on a rainy day recently. I used the NDx4 lens and tripod.

Skyline Drive of Shenandoah National Park
We were “on the road again” last week as country mucis singer Willie Nelson would sing. We drove through the entire Skyline Drive from north to south and then through the entire Blue Ridge Parkway all the way to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park […]

Deer Showing Affection
We took an overnight trip to Shenandoah National Park earlier this week. We stayed at the Big Meadows Lodge so we can quickly get to the Big Meadows all the times where if one’s lucky can see the new born fawns under the brushes or […]

Shenandoah National Park – 2020.11.4.
We’ve all been under stress dealing with Coronavirus pandemic everyday and watching presidential election report on TV Tuesday has really stressed me out, so I decided to take a break by visiting Shenandoah National Park yesterday. Gone has the crowd ’cause the fall foliage was […]