Photos by Cheryl Landes During one of my cross-country drives, I saw a beautiful sunrise in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Here are some pictures from my stop at the North Carolina-Tennessee border. Enjoy!
Photos by Cheryl Landes The Murray's Mill Historic District along the banks of Balls Creek in eastern Catawba County, North Carolina, is a journey back in time. Explore Murray's Mill, built in 1913, where a 28-foot waterwheel still slowly turns at the side of the two-story building and a pond spills water over a mill … Continue reading Armchair photo tours: Murray’s Mill Historic District in Catawba County, North Carolina
Photos by Cheryl Landes The Bunker Hill Covered Bridge, which crosses Lyle's Creek, is the only remaining example of a wooden Improved Lattice Truss patented by General Herman Haupt. It's also one of two original covered bridges remaining in North Carolina. The other original covered bridge still standing is the Mt. Pisgah Covered Bridge in … Continue reading Armchair photo tours: Bunker Hill Covered Bridge near Claremont, North Carolina
Photos by Cheryl Landes The current lighthouse at the Bodie Island Light Station at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore on the Outer Banks of North Carolina is the third lighthouse built in the area. The first, built in 1847 on Pea Island south of Bodie Island, was doomed from the start. Congress had trouble buying … Continue reading Armchair photo tours: Bodie Island Light Station on the Outer Banks of North Carolina
The December 17, 1903 Sculpture, which recalls the moments when Oroville and Wilbur Wright successfully flew their glider for the first time at Kitty Hawk on the Outer Banks of North Carolina Photos by Cheryl Landes On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Oroville and Wilbur Wright successfully … Continue reading Armchair photo tours: The Wright Brothers National Memorial on the Outer Banks of North Carolina
Photos by Cheryl Landes The Ochopee Post Office, 75 miles west of Miami, is considered to be the smallest post office in the United States. The tiny building started as an irrigation pipe shed owned by the J.T. Gaunt company tomato farm. One night in 1953, a fire destroyed Ochopee's general store and original post … Continue reading Armchair photo tours: The tiniest post office in the United States in Ochopee, Florida
Photos by Cheryl Landes The H.P. Williams Roadside Park, in the Big Cypress National Preserve on the Tamiami Trail (U.S. Highway 41) near Ochopee, Florida, has a picnic area and a 200-meter (656-foot) boardwalk with a view of the cypress trees and the Turner River Canal. The park is named in honor of Homer P. … Continue reading Armchair photo tours: H.P. Williams Roadside Park in the Big Cypress National Preserve near Ochopee, Florida
Photos by Cheryl Landes The Coopertown airboat tour is a nine-mile guided educational experience through open saw grass, a hardwood hammock, and into Everglades National Park. During the tour, the guides stopped at alligator holes and when they spotted other wildlife. This environment is rich with alligators, herons, grackles, turtoes, raccoons, the endangered Everglade snail … Continue reading Armchair photo tours: The Original Airboat Tour at Coopertown, Florida
Photos by Cheryl Landes Biscayne National Park, in Homestead south of Miami, is a diverse ecosystem of clear blue waters, islands, coral reefs teeming with 500 species of fish, and mangroves. During a trip to Florida, I stopped at the Dante Fascell Visitor Center east of downtown Homestead and walked the quarter-mile trail along Convoy … Continue reading Armchair photo tours: Biscayne National Park near Homestead, Florida
Photos by Cheryl Landes The Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden is the only frost-free, natural conservation habitat and botanical garden in the continental U.S. Founded in 1989, the garden features plants that are native to the Florida Keys, Cuba, and the Caribbean and educates visitors about the threatened and endangered species of the … Continue reading Armchair photo tours: Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden
Tabby Cat's Pawprints 