Above Ground at Mammoth Cave

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Most people go to Mammoth Cave National Park to explore the underground beauty.  But when Betsy and I visited Mammoth Cave with our friends Patti and Neal, we explored some of the above ground beauty of the park.  We enjoyed the quiet beauty of Sloans Pond one afternoon.  Peaceful and relaxing.

Over the Moonbow

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Betsy and I went to Cumberland Falls State Park in Kentucky to celebrate my birthday and, if possible, to see the moonbow which occurs on clear nights with a full moon.  The night we were there was slightly hazy, and a ranger told Betsy that we wouldn’t be able to see anything.

Although we could see the falls in the moonlight, we did not see any sign of a moonbow at all.  But I decided, since we were there, I would do some experimenting with night photography and time exposures.  I took some 15 second exposures at where we thought the moonbow should be, but in camera, everything was black.

I was surprised, when I looked at the photos on my computer to see, although the photo was very dark, a faint moonbow.  I worked on the image in Photoshop and was able to bring out the moonbow a little more.  This image is noisy, but it is proof that there was indeed a moonbow although we couldn’t see it with our naked eyes.

Rainbow at Cumberland Falls

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This rainbow was captured at Cumberland Falls State Park in Kentucky this past Saturday. There was enough of a breeze to send the mist quite a way downstream.

Yahoo Falls

Yahoo Falls is said to be Kentucky's highest. It is about three hours north of us and we first visited it in June, 2006. We had a nice hike from the parking area to the falls and on the way back to the car we crossed the stream below the falls. I took the picture above from that bridge.