Readers submitted their best waterfall photos for a chance to be published in our May/June 2013 issue. We had a terrific number of submissions and Facebook fans voted on their favorites. While our featured image is the winner published in our issue, we wanted to show off a few more amazing shots. Here are the top 15 from our submissions!
Thank you to all those who submitted!
Single Arch Falls, Pisgah National Forest. Photo by Ed Kelley. www.edkelley.comLittle Stoney Falls in beautiful Southwest Virginia. Photo by Patsy Ingle Phillips.Elakala Falls, Blackwater Canyon Blackwater State Park W.V. Photo by Josh Stephens.Triple Falls, Dupont State Forest. Photo by Ken Lane (https://www.facebook.com/kenlanewnc)Middle Stoney Falls Southwest, VA. Photo by Mitch Caudill.Wildcat Falls, Joyce Kilmer Wilderness. Photo by Todd Ransom.Little Stoney Falls in the Jefferson National Forest neat Coeburn,VA. Photo by Mary Clay.Upper White Oak Falls. Just minutes from the Blue Ridge Parkway in Beautiful Western North Carolina. Photo by Halley Burleson.Brush Creek Falls – near Princeton, WV. Photo by Sarah Hampton.Creation Falls, The Clifty Wilderness, Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky. Photo by Bill Fultz.High Falls DuPont State Forest, North Carolina. Photo by Kevin Senter. Facebook page: www.facebook.com/kevin.senterTaken at Little Stoney Falls, VA. Photo by Casey Sexton.Laurel Falls, near Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Shot on 35mm Fuji Superia X-Tra 400 film. Photo by Lance King.Log Hollow Fall, Pisgah Forest, NC. Photo by Phyllis Peterson.Slick rock falls, Pisgah National Forest, NC. Photo by Roberta Cooper.
“Pass the fungus,” is not common dinnertime conversation in the Blue Ridge Mountains region, but that’s because folks perhaps have not heard of the white jelly snow fungus.
Fayette County, West Virginia’s Mitchell Dech is one of my foraging mentors, and when he wants me to try an edible new to me … I’m ready to learn about it.
Sometime this month in the Blue Ridge Mountains, one of these highlands’ signature spring plants will ease from the soil … the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum).
A member of the buttercup family and found in the open woodlands, rue anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides) has long, thin stems that tremble in the slightest of winds—prompting its other common name, windflower.
