Science Hill High School - Wataugan Yearbook (Johnson City, TN)

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cenic .Kearny of Me .Q+uz'Ae'Zn Mann Min eiion The scenic beauty of the southern mountain region is not surpassed by any other locality. It is not a freak of the works of nature that surprises one, but scenery of such exquisite nat- ural beauty as to strike the beholder with awe. Many factors make up this scenic paradise. Majestic mountains tower overhead, cloak- ed with green woodland. Lacy waterfalls leap from precipices, to fall into a churning tur- moil. Calm streams and rippling brooks are contrasted with racing, white rapids. From the limestone flow pure, icy springs, which are often surrounded by large green ferns. Al- most every wild flower of the temperate regions grows here abundantly, causing a riot of color during spring and summer. Aloft, on the very tips of our mountains, sixty-five hundred feet above the sea level, with clouds filming only a few feet overhead or spilling like foamy cataracts over the low gaps, one is wooed with a spell of contentment that is hard to shatter. Bridle paths and foot trails lead from this area through woodland of mixed hardwoods and evergreens with an undergrowth of rhododendron, azalea, dogwood, and other flowering shrubs. In the woodlands in February or March, one will find the hardwoods bursting into bud and acres of bluets cn the mountain slopes. In March, one finds the early violets, hepaticas, bloodroot, wood-sorrel, and other early wildflowers. In April a wealth of spring flowers await one-trailing arbutus, violets of many kinds, Solomon's seal and Solomon's plume. There is the rose tint of redbud, or Iudas tree, the white of service, of dogwoodg the fragrant blossoms of the honey locust, the mountain magnolia or cucumber tree. In May, the wildflowers have their grand festival. Not only do the flowering trees reach their greatest glory, but there is a wealth of wildflowers: gnat's beard, trilliums tseven kinds have been found, including the dainty painted trilliuml, bleeding heart, lack-in-the-pulpit, Dutchman's breeches, wild geranium, ladies' slippers and others as wild orchids, wild col- umbine and iris. No where is the beauty of wildflowers to be found in greater profusion and luxuriance than here along the trails and highways and up the mountain slopes. Iune is the month of rhododendrons. First comes the purple rhododendron of the moun- tain slopes, usually at its prime from the tenth to the twentieth of Iune. The rose-bay, a short shrub rarely waist high, is found in dense clusters of small rose-colored flowers which sometimes carpet an entire mountain slope. It is doubtful if in any equivalent area in eastern North America there can be found as many different kinds of plants, or that the sheer beauty provided by such profusion can be anywhere excelled.

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