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A reconsideration of Appalachia 55 years later in this dedicated project series: Photography, Digital Collage #EastCoastKin #ArtYear
A PhotoEssay, Patreon & Substack by Tom Ogburn on the Great Smoky Mountains NP, Blue Ridge, Skyline Drive & Shenandoah NP
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There's not much to an angle of view.
Or is there?
For here we see daylight as so many of he mountain dwellers would love to have seen more often. Yet here they be windows, affordable, less than dragons at the boundaries of maps of ancient antiquity.
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#Stunday #Photography #Nature #TheParkwaysProjects
The interior of the Rangers' Cabin Office at Big Ridge State Park, Tennessee, scene #1.
Never let it be said that the love of a person for what they believe in can not transcend the most grievous of barriers.
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Thanks Robyn :) 💙🦋
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"The Sidh mist."
Geez. I hate typos.
Oh well, another post for another day. On a dark desert highway...
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🔟 I searched my archives above for "Brigadoon." There's far more of these references than I would've thought to have used in the past.
Yet for this bridge, I'd walk away from all I know & love were I to know it granted a second chance. Once in a lifetime opportunities are rare but palpably here 🪔
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9️⃣"Maybe it really is Brigadoon's portal? Nederland's just a few miles to the northwest & that sort of suits the vibe.
I did walk across it, forwards, backwards, slowly and fast, thinking that maybe the gap was only ten inches or so wide & a thinner entry was called for?
Time for a second try."🌙⬇️
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8️⃣"I'm planning to get back there as soon as things "safen out." One of the reasons is to revisit that bridge & hope it's still standing. It seemed at the time that it was the result of a bad survey or a lack of funds to complete the road?
Or just really the only bridge in America to Brigadoon?" ⬇️
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5️⃣"...thickly matted forest floors of fir needles, another strange revelation emerged, for the forests themselves had altered. Eerily beautiful portions of memories had become each a wavering mirage of a bridge to Brigadoon in the mists shrouding the tree trunks & retreating grassy arenas."
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4️⃣"But in 2019, 50 years since 1969 (the year the hippies populated our vacations—again, inaugurating changes for one of us) I'd gone into ghost picnic grounds, where spirits lived amid a new & thickly rooted understory. One by one, like dominos the size of dolmens, falling without a sound on..."⬇️
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3️⃣'The Waterboys ≈ This Is The Sea'
"Seattle. The eighties. Ireland's visits to the Northwest.
"I was confounded by truth. You cut through lies."
But, I saw Brigadoon."
And you sang it to me as we walked over the bridge in 1989.
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2️⃣"Mountains & Japan. A Zen Brigadoon. Or Lady of the Lake.
This town was part of my life for some 15 summers & then, for weekend events. It was both Brigadoon & a US political proving ground for kids. Not exactly a delicate balance, but a tumultuous one, beyond the shadows of a living doubt." 🌙
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Thanks to all of you for the love and warmth which rolled in like a welcome tide today, for the two doppelganger sunsets I posted today & on @bardicarts.bsky.social 🌙🦉 Just six days apart a few years back on Lake Marion!
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Heyas folks. I've watched sunsets abound in here since I signed onto #Bluesky🦋 ; all of which I have loved. I believe in the sublime. It is all that is real, and most often most true in the realm of photography. I turn to sunsets which touch me; I attune to the ones laying in wait for us to grasp.
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Hey Folks! Feel free to open this door to one of the oldest CCC Ranger's Offices in America. Eastern Tennessee.
Big Ridge State Park, where a young ranger has been tasked with making the interior feel like you've walked through a portal of time. I'll add a couple more photos, interiors both, later🦉
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Sure thing Bill! I love this image!
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A soundtrack for what will be a long & dedicated effort to share the story of the GSMNP, The BRPNP, the SDPNP, and the SNP, their legacy, and what is being allowed in these days to deteriorate in order to open them all to private development.
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Thank all of you for the reposts 🌙