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The original Mast General store in Valle cruses, NC
#mastgeneralstore #vellecrucesnc #vallecruces #boonenc #blowingrocknc #monochrome #northcarolina #visitnorthcarolina #photographer #art #nikon #nikond850 #2470mm #photography

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Boone Comic Con

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Make sure to check out the Art of Joe Lisi at Table A-15 on October 11th.

Joe Lisi is an artist, illustrator, and creator of pop culture art and merchandise!
artbyjoelisi.square.site

#fanart #anime #gameart #boonecomiccon #boonenc #nccomiccon #visitnc

September 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM Everybody can reply

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Tom Ogburn 🪔

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#Stunday #Landscapes #Photography #Appalachians #BlueRidgeParkway #SkylineDriveParkway #NPS #USFS #GreatSmokyMountainsNationalPark #mobilephotography #smartphonephotography #shotoniphone #AshevilleNC
#TheParkwaysProjects #BlueRidgeMountains #BooneNC
#KnoxvilleTN #TenneseeFoothillsTrail #GatlinburgTN

The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · Jan 28

"Covered Footbridge," 1938. #EastCoastKin #Duotone
Photo Restoration, from NPS/OPN archives #blackandwhite
#MonochromeMonday #monochromephotography #SkyArt #photography #blackandwhitephotography #monotone
#Bridges #BlueRidgeParkway #SkylineDriveParkway
#BlueSkyPhotography #NationalParks

Photo restoration of an old 1938 photo of a small covered foot bridge across a branch in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Sepia toned look. Hand-split shingles on the top lean-to roof. The planks below are actually split slate stone.

“The Parkways Project” began as an idea to tell a family story which was always occurred between two to three weeks per year, belonging to a family from Kershaw, a small town in South Carolina between the years of 1966 to 1972. The key years were the camping vacations, from 1968 to 1971, until a small business was opened in that same small town.

But in 2019, 50 years since 1969 (the year the hippies populated our vacations—again, inaugurating changes for one of us) I had gone into ghost picnic grounds, where spirits lived amid a new and thickly rooted understory. One by one, like dominos the size of dolmens, falling without a sound on thickly matted forest floors of fir needles, another strange but wonderful revelation emerged, for the forests themselves had altered. Eerily beautiful portions of memories had become each a wavering mirage of a bridge to Brigadoon in the mists shrouding the tree trunks and retreating grassy arenas.

"The Smokies have averaged nearly 12 million visits per year over the past decade. The highest record was set in 2021 when over 14 million visitors headed to the park in search of outdoor activities amid the COVID pandemic." ≈ Knoxville News Sentinel, Feb 27, 2024

February 17, 2025 at 5:27 AM Everybody can reply

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EduCativ

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🌟 Hiring Alert! 🌟 Join our team as a Full-Time Day Merchandising Service Associate in Boone, NC! Bring your skills to #Team1522 and grow with us. #JobOpportunity #RetailJobs #BooneNC educativ.net/jobs/job/319...

February 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM Everybody can reply

DUKE Limo - Chauffeured Transportation Services Charlotte, NC

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Experience reliable, stress-free travel with DUKE Limo. Whether you’re heading to the airport, a business meeting, or a special event, we ensure a smooth and professional ride every time.
#DUKELimo #ChauffeurService #AirportTransportation #CorporateTravel #sprintervan #CLTAirport #chatlotte #booneNC

February 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM Everybody can reply

Boone Comic Con

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Make sure you visit Caitlin's Creations at Table J-03 on October 11th!

Caitlin loves to draw and do Fan Art as a fun hobby. She even makes original artwork and makes adorable beaded bracelets.
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#cuteartstyle #CuteArt #fanart #boonecomiccon #nccomiccon #boonenc

September 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM Everybody can reply

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Wes Waugh

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“Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don’t quite know how to put our love into words” Harlan Miller / “Spruce in Moonlight” #watercolorpainting #watercolour #weswaugh #boonenc

December 24, 2024 at 1:35 PM Everybody can reply

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Tom Ogburn 🪔

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#Stunday #Landscapes #Photography #Appalachians #BlueRidgeParkway #SkylineDriveParkway #NPS #USFS #GreatSmokyMountainsNationalPark #mobilephotography #smartphonephotography #shotoniphone #AshevilleNC
#TheParkwaysProjects #BlueRidgeMountains #BooneNC
#KnoxvilleTN #TenneseeFoothillsTrail #GatlinburgTN

The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · Feb 10

“Oklahoma 66 poured” #TomOgburn #Photography
#Stunday 🦋 #EastCoastKin #Landscape #DigitalPhoto
#BlueskyPhotography #Skyart #BlueskyArt #DigitalArt #Route66 #TheMotherRoad #Oklahoma #RoadTrip

An old section of about nine miles of the original Route 66 roadbed in the western third of Oklahoma has already baked dry after a sudden heavy downpour. Across America, you can ride along a few miles at a time. It's rather like hopscotch in a vehicle, and becomes tiring fast.

Best to plan your route to Williams, Arizona and then take a turn northwest to embark on the longest continual section of the Mother Road, all the way to California. It's an incredible ride. 158 miles of such.

February 17, 2025 at 5:17 AM Everybody can reply

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Tom Ogburn 🪔

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#Stunday #Landscapes #Photography #Appalachians #BlueRidgeParkway #SkylineDriveParkway #NPS #USFS #GreatSmokyMountainsNationalPark #mobilephotography #smartphonephotography #shotoniphone #AshevilleNC
#TheParkwaysProjects #BlueRidgeMountains #BooneNC
#KnoxvilleTN #TenneseeFoothillsTrail #GatlinburgTN

The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · Feb 16

“Entropic Alley to Rutledge” #TomOgburn #Photography
#Stunday 🦋 #Landscapes #BlueskyPhotography
#Skyart #BlueskyArt #Art #CharlestonSC #RutledgeStreet
#StateParks #ColonialLake #CharlestonAlleys #Beaufain
#Nature #TheParkwaysProjects #SouthCarolina

My name for my alleyway from where I parked off Beaufain to get to Rutledge Avenue (were I heading that way) was "Entropic Alley." It IS a Charleston micro alley, about 30 yards long. But it hadn't been given a name until I came along. I have a penchant for naming things which need a name. Like titling artworks. Usually bathed in sunlight, as you can tell from the brilliance of the background at Noon. Rutledge and the buildings on the other side of the avenue are completely washed out.

These palmetto fronds are the old, long and narrow kind. Sharp and slightly serrated and often twisting in the current of wind that would at times whip into and out of this alley. What I never learned, was why there was old red tile hollow conduit that often carried water within it, and here, where it was broken away on the outer face, one could see that water was running in it. These terra cotta tiles were almost a foot tall and five inches wide. My guess is that this was a feature for watering the garden that was on the other side of this wall. Which makes perfect sense to me, as the Romans and the Spanish did such things long before Charleston was ever on a map.

This will become one of the "America: Lost & Found" works soon. It's just craving that entry into it's new arena of being.

February 17, 2025 at 5:14 AM Everybody can reply

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Tom Ogburn 🪔

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#Stunday #Landscapes #Photography #Appalachians #BlueRidgeParkway #SkylineDriveParkway #NPS #USFS #GreatSmokyMountainsNationalPark #mobilephotography #smartphonephotography #shotoniphone #AshevilleNC
#TheParkwaysProjects #BlueRidgeMountains #BooneNC
#KnoxvilleTN #TenneseeFoothillsTrail #GatlinburgTN

The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · Feb 8

“Four Holes off Five Chops” #TomOgburn #digitalphoto
#EastCoastKin🦋#BlueSkyArtShow Theme is #Reflections
#landscape #photography #art #photograph #digital
#landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky
#blueskyphotography #skyart #blueskyart #digitalart

"After seeing nothing but swamp, more swamps, and then some swamps the entire time I've been down here along Edisto and Santee Cooper way, the sheer miasma of them has taken hold. The cool thing is—now I know where they all are, and where some of the most beautiful lay hidden." ≈ me, as an opening to a blog in January 2019

A lowcountry swamp like this one is often driven past so quickly people have stopped seeing them. They are Nature's victims of ghosting; they're canceled. I decided in 2018 I would start eyeballing them as I drove by, then, next step: find a road into them. This is harder to do in the South than one might imagine. Cables with locks, chains with locks, elaborate steel swinging gates with locks. Locks with locks.

But I found ways.

Here you have a trio of trees forming the closest middle ground. Behind them, another small patch of land above standing blackwater to facilitate three more larger trees. Then you reach the marsh grass behind these primary actor trees. It may look solid from here; it is not so. This photo was made in March. Some of the smaller understory trees have already produced new leaves, but many are an anemic pale yellow. The larger trees haven't quite begun to sprout leaves but many had buds visible from below. The blackwater is reflecting a deep rich cobalt version of the sky above which is just your random azure blue that you may see on any given day. The swamp grass is also just turning into a pale green, some patches on the right, in better sun, already beginning to darken into their summer emerald green form.

February 17, 2025 at 5:20 AM Everybody can reply

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Wes Waugh

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“Don’t be afraid. You’re going to make it, but it’s always going to feel as if you’re not. That’s the fun, you see!”… Alan Watts

“Guangzhou Koi East-West”#watercolor w/ background abstraction, wet-lifting out approach, design, value contrast #watercolorwes #americanjourneywatercolor #boonenc

January 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM Everybody can reply

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Boone Comic Con

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Be sure to check out Amanda's Cutie Crafts at Table C-06 on October 11th!

Amanda enjoys making plushies to share her happiness with others.
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#crafting #crochet #plushies #boonecomiccon #boonenc #nccomiccon #visitnc

September 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM Everybody can reply

Wes Waugh

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“New River Barn, Creston NC” #watercolor #landscapepainting #weswaugh #watercolorwes #boonenc

January 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM Everybody can reply

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Wes Waugh

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“Sockeye Salmon” #mixedmedia small work 5”x9” #ncartists #weswaugh #blowingrock #boonenc #sockeyesalmon #flyfishing #salmon #watercolor #fishing-art

November 29, 2024 at 3:21 AM Everybody can reply

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Wes Waugh

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Have a wonderful Thanksgiving BlueSky folks! 💙🍁✌️

Micron pen-ink-watercolor wash of Grandfather Mountain Profile on Kilamanjaro paper from #americanjourneywatercolor #ncartists #weswaugh #boonenc #grandfathermountain #watercolor #penandwatercoloursketch #mixedmedia

November 28, 2024 at 1:58 PM Everybody can reply

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Wes Waugh

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“Goldfish Crossing” (revisited) 21”x28” / new life and oxygen in the pond after making the gallery rounds framed for fifteen years or so. If unresolved and something is bothering you about a work, AND.. you still have the opportunity to address it, do so!
#ncartists #weswaugh #boonenc #watercolor ✌️❤️

April 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM Everybody can reply

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Jean Sanders

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Happy Fourth of July from Boone, NC. In the background imagine the whistle sound from Tweetsie Railroad. Or folks of a certain age, think of the Good ‘N Plenty commercial… #boonenc #tweetsierailroad🚂 #fourthofjuly🇺🇸

July 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM Everybody can reply

Boone Comic Con

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Be sure to check out Ammons Manufacturing at Booth A-14 on October 11th!

Ammons Manufacturing is a small business headquartered in Statesville, North Carolina offering 3D printed goods.
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#3dprinting #fidgettoys #boonecomiccon #boonenc #nccomiccon #visitnc

September 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM Everybody can reply

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WNCTimes.com

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Man Charged with Intent to Kill in Boone wnctimes.com/article/man-... #wnc #wncmountains #boonenc #nc #localnews #ncnews #northcarolina #wncnews

September 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM Everybody can reply

Boone Comic Con

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Make sure you stop by Gravy Biscuit Comics at Table H-03 on October 11th!

A lifelong comic book fan and collector. We have been selling comics at NC shows for 4 years.
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#ComicBooks #comicbooksforsale #boonecomiccon #nccomiccon #boonenc #VisitNC

October 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM Everybody can reply

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Wes Waugh

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“That grand old poem called winter”... Henry David Thoreau /

“Sims Pond In Winter”

Well… not officially winter but 24° currently in Boone NC is close enough! Have a great Monday friends 💙🧊

#mixedmedia #landscapepainting #abstractart #watercolorwes #watercolor #boonenc #blueridgeparkway

December 2, 2024 at 2:03 PM Everybody can reply

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Wes Waugh

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“Maroon Bells. Elk Mountains” #Colorado #watercolor #landscapepainting #americanjourneywatercolor #ncartists #weswaugh #watercolorwes #boonenc

January 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM Everybody can reply

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Tom Ogburn 🪔

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#Stunday #Landscapes #Photography #Appalachians #BlueRidgeParkway #SkylineDriveParkway #NPS #USFS #GreatSmokyMountainsNationalPark #mobilephotography #smartphonephotography #shotoniphone #AshevilleNC
#TheParkwaysProjects #BlueRidgeMountains #BooneNC
#KnoxvilleTN #TenneseeFoothillsTrail #GatlinburgTN

The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · Feb 11

“17 Chalmers Street ” #TomOgburn #photography #charlestonsc #pinkhousetavern #building #art
#EastCoastKin #landscapes #digitalphoto #pirates
#blueskyphotography #skyart #blueskyart #digitalart

Sep 1996, trying out a new Canon A5 digital camera.

An odd view from the back side of the Pink Tavern on Chalmers allows for a good view of the encrusted black clay tiles (originally red clay tiles) and one of the back dormer windows. A soft but rich blue sky frames the pink surface of the home, the tiles in perspective to one's point of view, looking up from the back yard.

On my return from New Orleans in August 1996, with a new $1600 Canon A5 Digital Camera in hand, I wandered around Charleston for a weekend. One of the very first shots I made to try out the little camera's chops on real subject matter was this photo. There were three actually, one being a shot of the front of the Pink House Tavern, as it was called back then (and still is) one from an oblique end angle and this one from the back. Over the years I began to appreciate this view more, and included it in the very first exhibit of images made with the A5 from all over the American Southeast and Southwest.

WhileI have never had the honor to meet Madame Mesny/Mincey, there is always tomorrow.

"The tiled gambrel roof dates to the eighteenth century. The building was a tavern in the 1710s and onward, owned by renowned Madame and distiller Madame Mincey, a French Huguenot. James Gordon was the owner of the house by the 1780s. The artist Alice R. Huger Smith used the house as a studio in the early twentieth century." ≈ Wikipedia

February 17, 2025 at 5:16 AM Everybody can reply

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Boone Comic Con

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Be sure to stop by and support Jay Red Comics at Table E-02 on October 11th!

Jay Red is an Indie comic book artist with several original issues to offer.
jayredcomics.com

#indiecomics #anthologycomic #comicartist #boonecomiccon #nccomiccon #boonenc #visitnc

September 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM Everybody can reply

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Wes Waugh

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The Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus) is a cold-water fish that is a member of the family Salmonidae. Char can be found the furthest north of any freshwater species and can be found in lakes as far north as the Canadian Arctic islands.
#watercolor #flyfishing #ncartists #weswaugh #boonenc

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