A new feature of WonderOfCreation.org is an occasional photo slide show from travels On The Road (OTR).  These photos were taken in Pocahontas County in east central West Virginia.  I’m on the road to Duluth, Georgia—a location name that’s an oxymoron to us Michiganders, for which “on the road to Duluth” means going north and west into Minnesota.

I had the joy of staying a couple days with Allen and Debbie Johnson who live in rural Pocahontas County, West Virginia—rural really being a unnecessary adjective for a county that’s mostly made up of national forest.  Allen has been a long-time friend in the Christian creation care community, of which I have now been a part for almost twenty years.  You might want to read a bit more about Allen from this write-up in Newsweek magazine.

Allen is a county library administrator who loves the mountains.  I know that in part because his car, like many in the county, sports a bumper sticker that says so.  Plus, Allen is also an activist in opposition to mountaintop removal for the mining of coal, an invasive method that is destroying thousands of acres of West Virginia’s beautiful landscape and threatening the historic Appalachian cultural heritage.  Allen’s particular cause is the effort of Christians for the Mountains.

I wanted to get some photos myself of mountaintop removal, but since those can be found at several websites and on Google Earth, I just meandered through the springtime beauty of the Appalachians with my camera.  Here is a sampling from my camera’s growing files from this OTR excursion.

See you outdoors!

Dean