I had a different photograph all picked out for this month’s calendar, but this afternoon my June issue of WNC Magazine arrived.  In it is a two-page spread with this photo, one of the two images chosen for the newly-revived Vistas feature.  It’s pretty special to get a big spread in a great magazine, so I decided I would rather look at this one for the month of June.  I hope you agree.

This photo was taken several years ago from Craggy Pinnacle, in Craggy Gardens on the Blue Ridge Parkway just north of Asheville.  The vertical version of this is one of my all-time favorites, and now this one is growing on me too.

My friend and mentor Les Saucier frequently asks, “when is the best time to take a horizontal photograph?”  To which the proper reply is “just after you’ve taken the vertical.”