A RIDGE HAVEN PORTFOLIO
God's Wilderness Cathedral

Native wild flowers


Flame Azalea
Stories about Ridge Haven
the Retreat, Camp and Conference Center of the PCA

From a heartland farm through the Orient aflame to the Old World in the Cold War at the tip of a high-speed spear—a single-seat jet fighter; from the metropolitan madness of post-modern America via Florida’s slothful Suncoast to the Delectable Mountains of the Blue Ridge; from birth to rebirth enroute to Glory beyond; from incorrigible country kid by way of Top Gun and urban overachiever to mellow mountain man.  I’m  a blessed soul….

by JD Wetterling



A small sample


Sweet White Violet


Long-spurred Violet


A Different Sort of Retirement
The Wall Street Journal

Downy Serviceberry

Common Blue Violet


Solemn Silence, Highest Praise
"No one...:" A Meditation

Flowering Dogwood

Oconee Bells


A Cloud of Witnesses

Halberd-leaved Violet

Coltsfoot


Springtime on Meditation Mountain

Birdfoot Violet

Spring Dwarf Iris


High Living in Paradise
 

Robin's-plantain

Trailing Arbutus


Friends and Angels

Mountain Laurel

Round-leaved Yellow Violet

Counting Butterflies

Fraser Magnolia


Venus Looking Glass


A Eulogy for Rene Schmidt


Wild Potato Vine


Mountain Gentian


Springtime, End Time, God's Time


Butterfly Weed


Spring Dwarf Iris
Candy Man
A Man's Man Making Music for His Maker
Ruth 


Southern harebell


Tickseed-sunflower

Water and the Spirit


Hearts-a-bustin' fruit

All photographs copyright © 2003 05  K. Wetterling



 

 



Autumn colors at Ridge Haven--A photo gallery



 


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SON OF THUNDER
A Novel

Short work published in periodicals
 

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