Welcome to Haw Ridge

Haw Ridge lies on the other end of town from Black Oak, is the furthest from Walden, and looks towards the Smokies rather than the Cumberland Plateau. In the spring, it's laurel covered and about a million shades of green; in the fall it's everything from crimson to lemon, with flame and orange predominating. In the summer, it's dark, cool, and inviting; in winter, a little barren, perhaps, but has "good bones" and so is always beautiful.

Here are pictures of beautiful places, not by any means all near The Ridges [I may be biased, but I'm not blind]. Elsewhere on these pages, Walden Ridge to be exact, you'll find more structured things -- visitors' pages, tourist pages, chamber of commerce pages, such like -- but here it's just pictures. Just pictures...

• We'll start with some that other people have put on the Web for your pleasure:
  • Like these of Lake Baikal, Siberia:
    • Angry Baikal storms against the shoreline
    • Angara the great river of Baikal
    • In May and June it's spring, and the ice breaks up
    • In the north Baikal's forested hills rise above the lake in reflected beauty
    • Baikal at twilight serene and lovely
  • And these galleries:
    • new Oak Ridge -- hey, about time, right?
    • Smoky Mountain Mall you can never get too many looks at the Great Smokies.....
    • still more Smoky Mountain pictures: bears, deer, cabins...
    • National Park Service's WebCam on Look Rock over the Smokies past Clingman's Dome and Mt. LeConte... updated every 15 minutes
    • the Blue Ridge: close enough to the Smokies to be part of them...
    • Pictures of Northern Scotland -- gorgeous!
    • Leonids Meteor Gallery -- check out especially Frank Andreassen's incredible Leonids-and-Aurora shots
    • Aurora's Northern Nights, the Aurora Borealis--stunning
    • Ed King's pictures of Anderson County, Tennessee, my homeland...
    • The French Alps: Train trip from Chamonix to St. Moritz
    • Atlantis heads for the ISS: against a full moon, we reach for the stars
    • The Galaxy Gallery - Messier Objects: Galaxies and Nebulae
    • Hubble Space Telescope Pictures - Stars, Galaxies, Clusters, Nebulae -- all of space
    • The Web Nebulae: stellar and planetary nebulae, emphasis on æsthetics, meaning beauty
    • East Coast Lighthouses: from Newport Harbor to East Quoddy
• And follow up with my own photos:
  • My Smokies Photos:
    • The Little Pigeon River
    • The Little Pigeon River from above
    • The Little Pigeon River in autumn
    • Cades Cove
    • The Mountains from Cades Cove
    • Some Autumn Color
  • Other Pictures:
    • Waterlilies
    • The Fountain at Linderhof, Bavaria, in the snow
    • Lone Cypress
    • Spring Woods and flowers at the National Arboretum
    • The Anacostia from the National Arboretum
    • Tulips and Pansies at Wintherthur
    • A Sailboat on Lake Michigan
    • Sunset in San Angelo, Texas
    • Cardiff Castle, Wales
    • Cardiff City Hall
    • Snow on Hemlocks
    • Stone Mountain
  • Some by my sisters...
    • Sunset over Knoxville
    • Kauai, Hawaii
  • And finally, some eye-candy...
    • New! Sailors Uranus and Neptune: my favorite picture of my favorite Sailor Soldiers...
    • Fred Couples, just because
    • Seamus Zelazny Harper (Gordon Michael Woolvet) - sweet and scruffy with a yummy dark core
    • Michael Gearran (Brendan Fehr) - a lot of trouble - but worth it
    • Ritchie Ryan (Stan Kirsch) - gone but sorely missed... at least by us
    • Mike Logan (Christopher Noth) - no need to say why, right?
      more Mike...

      Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks), because a thing of beauty is a joy forever
      more Daniel...
      still more Daniel, and Jack

      Legolas (Orlando Bloom), because ditto ditto ditto
      more Daniel...
      more Legolas...
      still more Legolas
      and even more Legolas...
  

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