sustenance

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Our trip to Indian Gap proved fruitful.

I've posted for a week about what we found at one well-traveled mountain crossing in the Great Smokies. There were the cloaked knotty-horn, the Turk's cap, the drunken bees and even the parasitic, strangling dodder. That was all well and good, quite interesting. Fun to think about.

But although those natural curios may thrill, they can't sustain. Luckily, blueberries were also beginning to ripen. I’m not sure what species, there are several native to the mountains, but at 5,270 feet above sea level, it’s a safe bet that it was one of the highbush varieties found the park.

Did I say "yum!"

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