Welcome to the Bling of Spring 2010 webpage! In May, a group of us Yankees wandered down and met up with our Southern Brethren on a camping trip in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. We were centered in the Linville Falls area, right next to the Blue Ridge Parkway, which allowed us to cover a variety of unique watersheds in our quest to observe fishes, while enjoying the spring blossoms and scenic beauty along the way. It also allowed for us to slip in to Asheville twice for gourmet dinning, although with some of the BBQ we wrangled in our travels, that certainly wasn't necessary. Heck, at one stop, we had BBQ 101 with every type of sauce you can think of (well, besides that watery hot stuff Texans call sauce ;)

So I hope you'll enjoy the photos I've put together. I've assembled them in galleries by site with some additional stories, and at some point, video from the aquatic sites. However, you might prefer to just click in below for the favorites and take a look at a new feature for Farmertodd galleries... Pictures of people!


Fins

Cane River, Yancey County

Davidson River, Henderson County

Mills River, Henderson County

  Mills River Gilt Darter Brawl  

Wilson Creek, Caldwell County

Flowers

Crabtree Falls, Yancey County

Linville Falls, Avery County

Price Lake, Watauga County

Roan Mountain, Carter County, TN

Stone Mountain, Alleghany County


Favorites

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Flame_Azalea_02 Flame_Azalea_03 Gilt_Darter_006 gilt_darter_02 gilt_darter_03 Gilt_Darter_06
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Great_Rhodo_02 Ground_Cedar_01 Larkspur_02 Linville_Falls_09 Linville_Falls_12 Linville_Falls_13
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Michauxs_Saxifrige_01 Mountain_Bluets_02 Mountain_Brook_Lamprey_05 Mountain_Laurel_08 Painted_Trillium_01 Pink_Lady_Slipper_01
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Snorkeler_02 Stonecrop_01 Striped_Shiner_01 Todd_Jenny_01 Umbrella_Leaf_01 Vaseys_Trillium_01
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People

We had a real bonus this trip... People who were more interested in taking pictures of people!! I'll post the work of the illustrious Ms. Gwendolyn Tenney, which was comprehensive in its scope, and, well, I have here on CD :)
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ErikaShades Folks Jenny Lamprey LampreyHead Lycoman No_Mas
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RoboSuit Tatoos Technique ToddEdEmilyChris ToddEmilyChris Vegetarian YellowDog
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Ed Scott also contributed some photographs of our taking the word "Geek" to a brand new level - we brought along our computers and a projector and had a daily synopsis of our photos and film each evening "around" the campfire. I think our campground hosts were quite amused... He admitted to watching along from his house on the hill!
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