The dwarf-crested Iris is a true harbinger of spring in the Blue Ridge mountains.
The forceful flow of the Cheat River displayed in majestic fashion at the High Falls. A treat for riding to the end of the "New Tygart Flyer" on the Greenbrier & Durbin Valley Railroad!
Outbuildings are dwarfed by Stone Mountain, a granite dome (pluton) in Stone Mountain State Park, North Carolina. The buildings formed the homestead of the Hutchinson family. They settled at the at the base of Stone Mountain in the 1850s. John and Sidney Jane Brown Hutchinson built a log cabin in 1855. In this tiny house John and Sidney Jane raised a family of eight children. Four generations of the Hutchinson family worked and lived at this homeplace.