Flowers :)

Looking through the photos I’ve taken over the past year I see I’ve taken some good ones of flowers. And given the wintry mix currently predicted they might cheer things up a bit.
This one I took on Green River Cove Road near Saluda, NC. I’ve got more on my blog: jderrickstar.blogspot.com.
There’s some pretty good trout fishing down on the river and you can always find someone tubing, kayaking… doing something photogenic. The road itself is a lot of fun – crooked as a politician under investigation and narrow as said public servant’s outlook on the world.
I was driving along it one day and saw this little creek leaping out of the mountainside, flowing under the road and gushing out into the river. There were little yellow flowers growing along a rocky outcropping overlooking them.
I was able to work my way though the bushes and brambles to get out onto the little cliff, maybe ten feet above the culvert the water was flowing through.
It’s the sort of fall that wouldn’t kill you unless you hit your head and drowned, but would certainly ruin your day and probably break something.
The flowers weren’t all that big, but I was able to get very, very close to them to give them the impression of size. And a slow shutter speed gives the water the impression of motion.
The NC Sierra Club was asking their writers for their favorite nature hangouts, what you could do there, what sort of animals are present… for Green River Cove Road I keep coming up with “there are all sorts of animals. I’ve nearly hit deer, turkey….”
After my “granola: made from hippies” submission maybe I just ought to sit that one out.