Once, on our travels through the southern Appalachians, the Wilkes Team and the Staddon Brigade paid a visit to Tennessee’s highest point. Naturally, it is right on the TN/NC border (about 60 miles from Mount Mitchell as the crow flies).

Along the road we saw a Ruffed Grouse, and on the footpath between the parking lot and Clingman’s Dome beautiful Chestnut-sided Warblers were spotted and photographed.

“If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it” (Isaiah 58:13-14).