NATURE’S WAY
The forested glories of North Carolina
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HOARFROST NIPS OVERNIGHT, then at first light a gust dispatches a spectacle of crimson, gold and bronze. Next, winter dresses the landscape in crystalline sheen and powdery pallor. At last the vernal season invokes a palette of pastels and greenery.

Millions of years ago tectonic events formed the Blue Ridge, an escarpment of granite bedrock that sprang to life with myriad genera and species of flora and fauna following the Wisconsin glacial episode (22,000 – 12,000 B.C.). Infra-Ice-Age activity brought to the Blue Ridge seeds and spores from northern environs while mixed hardwood forests moved northward with the onset of rapid deglaciation. Since that epoch abundant rainfall, steep slopes of mineral-rich clay and loamy soil, and mild winters have nurtured more variety of wildlife than in any other singular region of North America.

The glories of Nature lie at one’s feet and soar above the head in the mountains of Western North Carolina where all seasons abound in glory. Springtime yields showers, bosky fragrance, and the ephemera of wildflowers. Dogwood petals hover on the breeze like a flurry of pallid butterflies. Corsages of mountain laurel impart pastel elegance to emerald-green backgrounds. Next, summer fosters ferny outcroppings, velvety moss, and false Solomon’s seal in full berry. Then, beneath canopies of autumnal blaze, chicory, asters and daisies amaze. Come winter, evergreens and deciduous skeletons proffer scenes replete with scarlet cardinals and tufts of white.

Experience the sublimity of North Carolina nature through the photography of Terry Ruscin.

Nature’s Way©
An edition limited to 100 copies
Each photo hand printed with archival inks on Arches cold-pressed watercolor paper,
signed and numbered by the artist, 11" x 15"
Prints: $210 each
Stock photo usage: Contact Terry Ruscin for details
Hendersonville, N.C., USA
All rights reserved by Terry Ruscin, 2005©