A morning looking at the mountain ridge

 

Rime Ice on the ridges across the valley. It was in the low 30s last night, but due to be close to 70 during the daytime! (Taken April 9, 2023)

A great view of the greening of the mountain, as trees leaf out starting at the bottoms and going uphill.

Gas Pipeline, no smoking etc.

Natural Gas Pipeline. I could hear some hissing and even smell the rotten egg odor that's added to natural gas.

Today's quote:

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. -Margaret Fuller, author, critic, Transendentalist, and women's rights advocate (1810-1850)

The greening of the mountains

 It's going fast this year, especially with several 70 degree days, and one 80 degrees in April!

These are dated April 25~

Near the Community Garden

 The Swannanoa flows along on the side of the gardens

In the distance are some of the Black Mountains, the oldest mountains in the US. Here some of them are also called the Seven Sisters.

A strange looking bird nest box, with a baffle to keep out animals who like to eat eggs. 

The highway in the distance is I-40.

I was really trying to capture the greening of the mountains...which starts in the lower elevations and creeps up the mountain sides.

My guess is these are raspberry canes along the wire, but I don't know the low plants. Maybe comfrey?

Today's quote:

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

-H.G. Wells, writer (21 Sep 1866-1946)

The greening of the mountains 1

In Haws Creek valley, the trees are beginning to have full green, while up-slope they are bare or budding.

The overlook is at 2170 feet, looking west in morning sunshine.  Dark greens are evergreens.

A bit further up the Blue Ridge Parkway on a southeastern slope, many little green leaves are popping out. 

And the delicate pink of a redbud is visible against the grey, green and brownscape.

Though there's not a clear line of where the green is already accomplished, the difference between bare branches along the top of the mountain and those with pale green in the valley are obvious.