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  1. Tyler Penland
    Sunburst and lower graveyard falls were looking rather spiffy the other day. Also visited courthouse falls just up the road but that one has more rhododendron around it than anything.
  2. Tyler Penland
    Here's a few. Sunrise from rough Ridge, a couple shots from Mitchell and Crabtree the other evening. The colors around banner elk today are fantastic. 194 between banner elk and Valle crucis is absolutely stunning.
  3. Tyler Penland
    Just getting some edits done from Wednesday. Here's a neat shot. The skyline of Charlotte from Mt Mitchell. Takes very dry/clean/cool air to make it naked eye visible during the day. Around 90 miles or so. This was taken at my max of 200mm.
  4. Tyler Penland
    Dang. Im gonna have to head up there soon. Babel Tower will be really nice next week I bet. Hopefully the winds don't strip the upper rim this weekend.
  5. Tyler Penland
    Currently 34 and windy but the color is gorgeous from the black mountain crest. Next stop graveyard fields.
  6. Tyler Penland
    Drove the parkway from Grandfather to Crabtree today and it's really looking pretty good. The area around Linville is the best right now (I think the gorge will be a great spot this year) but elsewhere it's spotty. Still a lot of green left and with the recent rain/cool weather there's some great potential in the 2000-3500ft range. Planning to hit sunrise on Grandfather somewhere tomorrow morning and then head down towards Graveyard fields during the afternoon. Hoping the wind isn't too terrible.
  7. Tyler Penland
    Worth noting the 3km NAM actually shows some flurries on Thursday morning in the high elevations. Tries to get them down into Boone even.
  8. Tyler Penland
    36 at the house this morning with a solid frost. Car showed a chilly 33 coming through Banner Elk on the way to work this morning. Loving it. Just seen Boone recorded 32 this morning.
  9. Tyler Penland
    Color about 2-3 weeks behind on the upper reaches of Grandfather. Coming along nicely and actually looks pretty good so far.
  10. Tyler Penland
    Just came over grandfather on the way home from work to check it out. Color is coming along really nicely on the ridges between Beacon Heights and the Viaduct. Fairly vibrant at that. Rough Ridge as well. Otherwise very early stages at road level still. I'm hopefully heading up Cragway tomorrow since they've reopened it. Color looks great up there from what little you can see from the road. Here's a crappy phone pic from the Beacon Heights parking lot. Still lots of low clouds on that side.
  11. Tyler Penland
    So far I've seen some spotty areas that look really good from my photo friends on FB. I'm hoping to hike up the Boone fork bowl on Grandfather this Friday. That area has been good even when everything else sucks.
  12. Tyler Penland
    Well it's about time. 49 in the best CAD areas around Rough Ridge. Barely any leaf change now the dead ones have all been knocked down but plenty left to change. Here's hoping for some rain to get the stream levels back up a bit.
  13. Tyler Penland
    Was up on the Parkway over grandfather today (shot sunset out at Flat Rock) and still plenty of green so that's a plus. The ridges are running about 2 weeks behind average best I can tell but some decent color showing in the Boone fork area. All limited to the normal early change areas above 5kft though. Very little down at road level just yet.
  14. Tyler Penland
    That photo is a little misleading imo. I'm in Boone and other than the occasional bright orange most of them are dull yellow. 3rd straight crappy foilage season coming I believe. A little rain could help salvage the rest but a lot of dead stuff already.
  15. Tyler Penland
    Is it too early for this? Probably. But dang it's hot and I wanna talk about colder weather. Seen a few runs of the GFS/GEFS advertising maybe a break from the heat heading towards the end of the month. A LOT more leaf change already up here around the Boone/Banner Elk than I would expect given the recent heat. Hoping that's not setting us up for another less-than-stellar fall leaf season.
  16. Tyler Penland
    Temps have been nice but I'm ready for some sun to come back.
  17. Tyler Penland
    Headed to Florida in a couple weeks for my honeymoon. Of course Dorian has to show up.
  18. Tyler Penland
    Not to complain, particularly since we're not very far removed from the 2016 wildfire season, but holy cow I'm ready for a good dry stretch. Also we made it down to 49 here at the house. It was 45 over on the elk river early last Thursday morning. Nice change from the heat.
  19. Tyler Penland
    You were just late. They were absolutely spectacular early last week. The whole season has been 7-10 days early so far. Photo conditions have been pretty terrible overall as well with the Canadian Wildfire smoke, stupid hazy vista's and then the flood.
  20. Tyler Penland
    The blooms have been gorgeous this year but the haze and clouds have been a problem for photography in the northern half of NC. Got this shot of a flame azalea yesterday evening on Roan. I'll share a few more when I get around to editing them all.
  21. Tyler Penland
    That was quick. [emoji14]
  22. Tyler Penland
    This is probably the only time of year I'm ok with warm and dry. The rhododendrons and other wildflowers have been great so far and no rain to beat them down. Did see quite a few blooms welted a bit from the heat yesterday though.
  23. Tyler Penland
    Just had the most bizarre thing ever: a hail shower. No rain in it, just pea to nickel sized hail.
  24. Tyler Penland
    I'm sitting in chillis and was arguing with my fiance that it was snow not rain. Thanks for the confirmation.
  25. Tyler Penland
    Just a cold cold rain here west of Boone.
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