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Beautiful pics. I just loved England when I visited.
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11-16-2006, 06:23 AM
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Just me.
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Couple more that I kind of like ...
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11-16-2006, 10:40 AM
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I was gonna start my own thread for this, but maybe this is the best way to go...the missus & I just spent last weekend in a cabin in the smokies...the drive up the side of the mtn included a terrifyingly steep grade that had me convinced that our Cruiser was gonna tumble backwards end over end, & the driveway to our cabin was angled the wrong way for a narrow mtn road...but when we got inside, we found why they put us thru all that...
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11-16-2006, 10:54 AM
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Picking the best of the pics I got is like choosing my favorite noodle in a spaghetti dinner...but I think these stand out 
For some reason, I woke up very early in the morning, but when I saw the chance to get the sunrise pics, I was glad I did...
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11-16-2006, 11:42 AM
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Scotz, those are gorgeous! Makes me wish I was there, too. I miss fall.
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11-16-2006, 01:12 PM
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I've got a variety of pictures from around the buildings I manage, and these are a couple I've always liked. One is the view from inside an office. What a site!
Goes to show you how camera angle really does matter. 
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11-16-2006, 03:59 PM
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Isn't Mother Nature just beautiful!!!
We certainly do have some talented photographers!
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11-16-2006, 10:30 PM
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Missing the Angels
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I love this thread!!!!
Hmmm, when Booger gets the printer/copier hooked back up, I'll get one of kiddo's pics that she took last summer up here.
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11-16-2006, 10:53 PM
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Just curious WI. In the 'Tower' pic,.... is there a double, floor level, door under that beam and is it a working lift beam?
(… and are you allowed to keep a fly rod in your locker?  )
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11-16-2006, 11:03 PM
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some of my fave place
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11-16-2006, 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted by scotzoidman
........the drive up the side of the mtn included a terrifyingly steep grade that had me convinced that our Cruiser was gonna tumble backwards end over end, & the driveway to our cabin was angled the wrong way for a narrow mtn road.......
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Zoid,  Is that area part of (or near) the Blue Ridge mountain area? It's breathtakingly beautiful country and your description of the razor-edge road sparked an OLD memory from about … 35 years ago …. a while back, along the sheerest drop I ever got to spend about 30 miles next to. MUCH of it was cable guard rail along an edge too steep for trees to grow on, so you had a vista view that you didn't dare look out over. When my white knuckles saw the sign for 'Hungry Mother State Park', I knew somebody else had the same thoughts about the road that I was having. I sold that car years later, with my fingerprints still in the steering wheel.
BEAUTIFUL area  , but somebody else can do the driving.
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11-17-2006, 01:20 AM
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I should have named this "Pixies Postcards" These pictures are all postcard worthy!!! I love it!
I have more, but the file sizes are just too big and my program sucks to shrink for Pixie viewing....Anyone care to help? Thank you in advance!!
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11-17-2006, 05:36 AM
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11-17-2006, 09:03 AM
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Originally Posted by PantyFanatic
Just curious WI. In the 'Tower' pic,.... is there a double, floor level, door under that beam and is it a working lift beam?
(… and are you allowed to keep a fly rod in your locker? ) |
You bet there are floor level double doors under that beam. A pair on each of the five levels. The doors are solid mahogany...painted green on the outside. And the beam was used all day every day from 1864 to 1985, when the mill moved south in search of a more affordable environment.
I've yet to drop a line, but rumor has it that the fishing is great! We own three dams on the river, and there's a pin-truss bridge spanning it as well. All I need to do is make the time!
Here's a view from the front; the doors are in the background. My office is behind the two windows to the right.
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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.
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11-17-2006, 09:58 AM
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PF, this was strictly in the Smokies, on the TN side (altho I'm pretty sure you can see parts of NC in the pics...the big mtn in the distance should be Klingman's Dome, highest point in TN, & NC is on the south slope)...I think Blue Ridge is farther east in NC & VA ...mrs zoid ridiculed me for leaning forward during the climb, like that'd help, but I really felt the need to move our center of gravity up any way I could I have always had an intense fear of heights, & I recall a trip thru the area, hmm, may have been...about … 35-40 years ago (I was still a child, mind you) into NC to see the outdoor theatre show "Until These Hills", about the Cherokee Indians who USED to live in the area...the bus was being piloted by a sadist who seemed to take pleasure in my terror, taking the kind of curves you describe way too fast...time & therapy haven't been enough to keep me from breaking into a cold sweat at the memory 
In fact, the cabin had an old relief map on the porch to help us visitors get our bearings, & I took a pic of that too...I'm hoping that my resizing it for pixies hasn't eliminated too much detail, but the crudely hand-drawn "X" in the center is about where we were, on the SE face of the Chilhowee Mtns...
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