View from McKeever Lodge - Pipestem State Park

 “Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are."

― Gretel Ehrlich

Our view from McKeever Lodge at Pipestem State Park during our 

visit last weekend (October 4-6, 2024).

Pipestem is one of our favorite places to visit. 

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Autumn Colors - Pipestem State Park - West Virginia

 "Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons" 

– Jim Bishop

Autumn is beginning to show its colors at 

Pipestem State Park in Pipestem, West Virginia.

10-05-24

Pipestem Sunrise

 “Open yourself to every possibility, 

for there is nothing your heart can imagine 

that is not so.” 

― William Kent Kruege

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Autumn Against the Sky

Pipestem State Park, Pipestem West Virginia

 “Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.” 

— Siobhan Vivian

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Abstract Art - Sunset Over the Mountains

“A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.” 

― Crystal Woods  

I created this art from a photograph of a sunset 

that I captured at Pipestem State Park 

in Pipestem, West Virginia.

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The Tulip Tree - Also Known As The Tulip Poplar

“A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.” 

― Richelle E. Goodrich

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Morning Has Broken - Sunrise at Pipestem State Park

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"Morning has broken like the first morning 

Blackbird has spoken like the first bird 

Praise for the singing 

Praise for the morning 

Praise for them springing 

fresh from the world" 

- Cat Stevens 

Long Branch Lake at Pipestem State Park

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“One of the things that makes you feel good is to get out into nature—go walking, go hiking, go swimming in the ocean, or wherever you live, in a river or a lake, experience the beauty of America, experience how America is such a sacred place. Everywhere you go in this land, our people have been there and they have said, “This place is sacred.” 

 ― Charles Alexander Eastman, Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience  

Long Branch Lake 

Pipestem State Park 

Pipestem, West Virginia

Pipestem State Park - Autumn Overlook

"Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?"

- Hal Borland

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View from the FireTower - Pipestem State Park

"To see the Summer Sky 

Is Poetry, 

though never in a Book it lie – 

True Poems flee –" 

~ Emily Dickinson

View from the Fire Tower at Pipestem State Park

Pipestem, West Virginia 

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The Grand Finale - Autumn at Pipestem State Park

“Fall ......The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.” 

 ― Lauren DeStefano

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Fog In the Mountains - Pipestem State Park

“The mountains are calling and I must go.” 

 ― John Muir

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Raccoon

“The smaller the creature, 

the bolder its spirit.” 

 ― Suzy Kassem

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Rock Cairn Along The Bluestone River

"It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love." 

 — Thich Nhat Hanh

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A Bambi Moment

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” 

 ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

During our visit to Pipestem State Park I was blessed to see

a very sweet wildlife encounter.  

I am on the 7th floor of the hotel looking down and

see a raccoon and deer nose to nose.  

It was a real-life Bambi moment! 

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The Fog Rises Over the Bluestone Gorge

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”

- John Muir

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After The Rain - The Bluestone Gorge at Pipestem State Park

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. 

~K.T. Jong

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Foggy Layers

 From a visit to Pipestem State Park 

 Pipestem, West Virginia.

The Fog was so thick over the Bluestone Gorge that 

the mountains were almost entirely hidden.

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Sunset Over the Bluestone Gorge - Pipestem State Park

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, 

but to add color to my sunset sky.” 

 ― Rabindranath Tagore

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The Fog Rolls In

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak. 

~ Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

The Bluestone Gorge at

Pipestem State Park in Pipestem, West Virginia

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