Daily Archives: June 7, 2025

I just returned from Grandfather Mountain in Western N.C.  This year was the 39th Annual Nature Photography weekend, an event, I helped start 41 years ago!!  Why the differents of two years?  They did not hold the event during the 2 Covid years!  But with the help of a great team of workers it has been a great event near selling out very year for all that time!  Hugh Morton and the original team including Don Nelson and Tom Payne and myself,   managed it for many years!  Upon Hugh’s passing in 2006 the Mountain, privately owned by Hugh, was transferred into a long term lease to the state of North Carolina when it was made into a State Park.

 

Going back this year was a wonderful chance to see a lot of old friends made through the years!  It was made tougher since on Tuesday of this week in the hospital I was diagnosed with Pneumonia and was virtually without my voice but somehow God got be through it and I as able to open the evening talk on the first evening!  It must have gone o.k. because I found no tomato stains on my clothes!  What a heavenly place “The Mountain is!!!”   My thanks to all those great folks!!!!!

 

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim