Cherohala Skyway Photographs

Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest at the northern end of the beautiful Cherohala Skyway with its towering Yellow-Poplars said to be 400 years old and 20 feet in circumference. The forest is part of the bigger Nantahala National Forest. What awaits you here is a nice little hike (2.5 miles) through a lovely setting (3800 acre forest) of amazing trees and mossy tree trunks lying scattered about with trees growing from them. So, don’t walk around just looking up, look down every now and then to find wonderful treasures all around.

 
Yellow Poplar

 It is truly incredible to get to experience these huge trees that defy the odds of nature in their grand old age.

 Graham County North Carolina Joyce Kimer Memorial Forest Site

 As I said, there are a lot of wonderful things to see in the forest if you look around and take it all in.

Old Growth Sanctuary site from Gorp.

A stream flowing through the Joyce Kilmer Forest.

 

A very good site for info on the forest.

A rotten stump in the Joyce Kilmer Forest that caught my eye as beautiful light was bathing it in the evening.

Wilderness.net on the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest.

Information on when the wildflowers of the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest are at their best from the US Forest Service.

Wikipedia facts on the Joyce Kilmer Forest.

USDA page with links.

TREES

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of Robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree. 

The immortal words of the poet soldier, Joyce Kilmer, that never set foot within the Joyce Kilmer Forest.

There is beauty all around to be found within the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest such as this shadow cast on an old mossy tree. I love the soft feel of it and the abstract shapes. What do you think?

Hickory basking in the sunlight coming through the canopy above in the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest.

Bald River Falls

Cherohala Skyway Information.

 National Scenic Byways Program.

 

A little waterfall of the Cherohala Skyway.

Tellico Plains Mountain Press

  History, Photos and Maps

 

Chattanooga Hiking Club site where you can find info on the Cherohala Skyway and the Joyce Kilmer Forest.

  Cherohala Skyway Link

One of the amazing overlooks of the Cherohala Skyway.

Scenic drives in the Tennessee Valley and Mountains.

The overlooks on the Cherohala Skyway are absolutely amazing, you can see for miles.

Tellico plains waterfalls pictures and info.

 

Graham County North Carolina site.

 

A great overall site on the region.

 

Wikipedia facts on the Cherohala Skyway.

The Cherohala Skyway Art Project is the hot and happening thing right now for Boyd Greene Fine Art. There will be updates coming as it develops. There will be around seven or more paintings with supplemental photos that can be purchased as well. I have not decided yet whether or not I will make giclee prints of the paintings, as I know more I will let you know. Please feel free to join my email blog subscription to keep up to date. I look forward to hearing from you as always and thank you to all of the people that have already signed up.

Good day and many peaceful adventures for you.

Comments

[Rebecca]

I just love your photos! The scenery and close up nature shots are fabulous! (...just had to comment on them. :D )

Also - your graphite sunflower is just stunning!

- Rebecca

[Mike Stewart]

These photo's are great! They remind me of a young photographer form the late 70's (was you influenced by his work?)

-Mike

[Pixel Chix]

Hmm. Not just a talented painter, but a photographer too! All are beautiful, but I am especially drawn to the stump bathed in golden light. Very nice.

[Photo Buffet]

Boyd, these are beautiful images! All through my childhood, my mother had a framed copy of Joyce Kilmer's poem about trees. I memorized it when I was in third grade. I had no idea there was a Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest. Thanks--it was a nice discovery!

[Diane - Daily Walks]

A really beautiful collection here. One feels that they have been out for a long, meandering, breathtaking walk along a path of intimate and panoramic scenes. Thank you.

[lookingforbeauty]

Your photos are superb and so are your paintings. I looked you up after you made a comment on the Alertedeye blog. I'm a painter and really appreciate your very mature artistic sense that pulls everything together at once - composition, light, spatial tension, pattern, et cetera et cetera. I love the particularity you bring to a pencil drawing and I find the technique you are using to express flowers is quite handsome.Bravo!What medium are you using for your paintings?K

[Fine Artist Boyd Greene]

Old Holland and Blockx oil paints with amber being my only medium usually. Sometimes maroger and wax but rare.

Thank you for your inspiring comments. It is always nice to see yourself through another's eyes.

[shane]

stunning pictures, tulip trees are my favourite deciduous tree we have them here in the uk, but they are mainly seen in parks and large gardens, the tallest being in the south kew gardens has a fine collection ,one specimen being about 115ft high it turns a stunning buttery yellow in the autumn[fall].

[Fine Artist Boyd Greene]

Thanks Shane, very interesting hearing about your favorite trees.