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Lila Honaker
Photo Essay, August 2019
Clifftops, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Fannie Eavenson
Photo Essay, August 2019
Farm in Wear’s Valley, Tennessee
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Peggy Yaeger
Photo Essay, August 2019
Fall stream, Porter Creek Trail
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Fannie Eavenson
Photo Essay, August 2019
Jack’s Creek Cabin
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Kent Rowell
Photo Essay, August 2019
Sunset at the Waterrock Knob Visitor’s Center, Blue Ridge Parkway
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Rusty Brown
Photo Essay, August 2019
Butterfly along the Chattooga River near Woodall Shoals, Long Creek, South Carolina
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Linda Barden
Photo Essay, August 2019
Highlands, North Carolina
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Peggy Yaeger
Photo Essay, August 2019
Yellow trillium on the Porter Creek Trail
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Fannie Eavenson
Photo Essay, August 2019
River dog
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