Why do they call them the Smoky Mountains
Mar 23, 2024 18:02:43 #
Mar 23, 2024 18:14:28 #
They are amazing and I love having them at my front door.
Do you know why they "smoke"?
Great photo!
Do you know why they "smoke"?
Great photo!
Mar 23, 2024 18:17:47 #
Mar 23, 2024 18:22:34 #
Ninety years ago (give or take), it could have been the smoke from the stills. 
Mar 23, 2024 18:29:37 #
Mar 23, 2024 18:56:29 #
Mike D. wrote:
Ninety years ago (give or take), it could have been the smoke from the stills.
Good point!
Mar 23, 2024 18:59:17 #
Interesting:
https://tnmuseum.org/junior-curators/posts/seeing-through-the-smoke-the-story-of-the-great-smoky-mountains-national-park
"The Smokies got their name from the Cherokee people. They called it “Shaconage” (shah-con-ah-jey) which means “place of the blue smoke.” The name comes from the blue mist that floats above the peaks of the mountains. European settlers moved to the mountains in the late 1700s."
https://tnmuseum.org/junior-curators/posts/seeing-through-the-smoke-the-story-of-the-great-smoky-mountains-national-park
"The Smokies got their name from the Cherokee people. They called it “Shaconage” (shah-con-ah-jey) which means “place of the blue smoke.” The name comes from the blue mist that floats above the peaks of the mountains. European settlers moved to the mountains in the late 1700s."
Mar 23, 2024 19:11:32 #
Beautiful image Tom. Used to do a lot of camping and backpacking in the Smokies years ago.
Don
Don
Mar 23, 2024 20:04:19 #
Triple G wrote:
They are amazing and I love having them at my front door.
Do you know why they "smoke"?
Great photo!
Do you know why they "smoke"?
Great photo!
A combination of humidity haze and off gassing from the deep layers of old leaves etc. decaying on the ground = Mother Nature's Own Smog.
Mar 23, 2024 20:55:00 #
Mar 23, 2024 21:33:14 #
Serene autumn foliage of the Appalachian Mountains in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia & West Virginia at it's best...
Stellar multidimensional effect... Epic illusion of three demonstrations in a two dimensional rendering....
Warm dominate Reds in foreground, recessive forest Conifer Green in mid-ground and the distal haze background.
Many acres of this pristine wilderness was lost to bituminous coal extraction i.e. Strip Mined and then later reclaimed.
With the endless excessive thirst for "Cheap Energy" petroleum wells replaced the rape of the Smoky Mountains...
Now it's the The Permian Basin's oil-and-gas-producing of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico.fueling the exploitation of the South West wilderness... much of which is arid and too hostile an environment for human habitation...
Yet still wishing I could go back to those beautiful Smoky Mountains
Paradise Muhlenberg Tennessee (made famous by John Prine)
And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away… © Sturgill Simpson
Stellar multidimensional effect... Epic illusion of three demonstrations in a two dimensional rendering....
Warm dominate Reds in foreground, recessive forest Conifer Green in mid-ground and the distal haze background.
Many acres of this pristine wilderness was lost to bituminous coal extraction i.e. Strip Mined and then later reclaimed.
With the endless excessive thirst for "Cheap Energy" petroleum wells replaced the rape of the Smoky Mountains...
Now it's the The Permian Basin's oil-and-gas-producing of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico.fueling the exploitation of the South West wilderness... much of which is arid and too hostile an environment for human habitation...
Yet still wishing I could go back to those beautiful Smoky Mountains
Paradise Muhlenberg Tennessee (made famous by John Prine)
And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away… © Sturgill Simpson
Mar 23, 2024 22:36:54 #
Mike D. wrote:
Ninety years ago (give or take), it could have been the smoke from the stills.
Ninety years ago?
Mar 23, 2024 22:37:29 #
Mar 24, 2024 06:58:21 #
Mar 24, 2024 07:00:55 #
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