Category: Landscape

Snow in Bryce Canyon

Landscape
A lot of the time people equate red rock and Utah with hot and dry, but that area does indeed have winter. In the image above, a winter snow has dusted the hoodoos of Bryce Canyon and adds something extra to the famous formations. Hot and dry. The morning after these were shot, the temperature was -5 degrees F. But it was a dry cold.

(Photographs copyright 2012 by Dan Routh)

North Carolina Mountain Color

Landscape, North Carolina, Travel
(Photograph copyright 2011 by Dan Routh)
October is a month of change in North Carolina. Starting in the mountains and moving east, Mother Nature makes the transition from summer to winter with her brilliant displays of color. I think this is my favorite time of year, although I do dread to see the cold and gray of winter coming. This image is of Yellowstone Falls, just off the Blue Ridge Parkway near Waynesville. It’s located in the Black Balsam/Graveyard Fields area of Pisgah National Forest, one of the wildest and most beautiful spots in the Blue Ridge.
For info on the Blue Ridge Parkway, go to: http://www.nps.gov/blri/

Kidd’s Mill

Landscape

(Photograph copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)

The rock dam at Kidd’s Mill on Sandy Creek is a local landmark here in Grays Chapel, North Carolina, but it has a very special connection for me. My great-great grandfather McMasters once owned the mill there and then sold it to my great-great grandfather Routh, who rebuilt the dam and ground flour and feed for several years. Unfortunately, the mill itself is long gone, though I do remember going inside it to have feed ground when I was a youngster. The dam is still in pretty good shape and presents an idyllic scene on a recent snowy day.