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Sunset on Lake Wylie by Larry Gortney.

The next two pictures were taken by Peggy Bailey of sunsets in Burnsville.

This photo taken at Jekyll Island by Linda Brown looks like a painting.

Retha England took this photo while on vacation with family in Wilmington NC at sunset.

Taken from his porch in Burnsville by Calvin Campbell. The clouds look like a face with two eyes, nose and mouth.

The next two photos were taken by Vicky Hoilman while vacationing at Myrtle Beach.

Phyllis took this picture of an elk on a camping trip to Cherokee.

Melissa Woodby took this picture of a sunset in the Smokies.

Scott Hughes captured this double rainbow on a recent trip to the beach.

David Phillips took the next 5 photos while at Cades Cove. (he also said thee were a lot of bears out and about.

Marvin Holland sent the next two pictures, along with the following explanation:

 Sue and I arrived in Flagstaff (7000 feet) by way of Phoenix (desert) Wednesday, June 16th. We fly out every few years to visit with our daughter Sharon and her husband Don.
At that time a large wildfire was raging in Williams, AZ about 30 miles west of Flagstaff. On Friday a large fire erupted on the east side near Northern Arizona State University and I-40. Sue and I attended worship at a Methodist church in Northeast Flagstaff Sunday morning and as we were coming back to our motel we stopped at a fast food RR for lunch. As we enter the RR I asked Sue to look at the ridge line to the NE where smoke was rising. When we came out the sky over the northeast area of Flagstaff looked like a volcano had erupted. Smoke billowed probably 500 feet high and fire was extending right and left in our line of sight. We went on down Milton Avenue to our Motel and I took these pictures from the parking lot of the Hilton Gardens. In a short time heavy white smoke rose about 1000 feet and the color on the ridge line was dark and you could see flashes of trees exploding. Tanker planes and helicopters could not get in close right away. It was truly awesome and still continues to burn. An interesting thing about Flagstaff is that it was at one time thousands of years ago filled with active volcanoes. The best identifying landscape of Flagstaff are the San Francisco Peaks. Today they stand about 12,000 feet above sea level (Flagstaff is at 7000 feet). About 4,000 years ago <>, they blew taking about 7,000 feet off the top and most of it landed on the east side of what is now Flagstaff.
It is called Mount Elden. It's around a couple of thousand feet tall with lesser deposits around it. All of the fire extended to Mount Elden and then west through an area called Shultz. Sharon and Don's house is just outside of Flagstaff on the South and is not endangered. When we left Phoenix by plane on Tuesday, their temperature was 106 degrees.


Fires over Flagstaff.

The Grand Canyon.

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