Tis a hell of a note when the temperature that greets you upon walking out of the house at 6am feels like 85°. Not a good sign for early June. And so starts my day.
I see this unseasonable warmth has moved all the way to the Blue Ridge Mountains I love. I recall our first [...]

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Playing around in photoshop on some of the images I shot last fall on our vacation in the Blue Ridge Mountains. This is a shot of Fred First’s barn on Goose Creek out of Floyd. Consider this just an experiment in progress…

Later…

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On the first day of spring I don’t know whether to welcome spring or to welcome it back after our preview of summer over the weekend…This morning is starting out at 47° with the prognosticators pushing for the low 70’s by afternoon. Now that is what I call spring.
“What cheers me, though, is the [...]

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via whiskey river
“Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.”
- Alan Watts
I find that quote both disturbing and dishearteningly astute. It is disturbing mainly because if the greatest nonsense is unintelligible, how bad must it be judging by [...]

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I read this in the latest “News From Vermont” sent out by Burr Morse…This issue was written by Weston Cate.
It doesn’t make any difference whether or not the Ground Hog sees his shadow on February 2. What does matter is that date marks the halfway point in the winter. The old Vermont farmer on that [...]

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I have a question for ya…Why is it that real restaurant coffee cups hold the heat so much better than the coffee cups you get everywhere else?
Ever since we came back from vacation with a couple of Blue Ridge Restaurant coffee cups from Floyd Virginia both Sherry and I gravitate to them on the days [...]

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Old Farmhouse,
Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia,
November 12, 2007
 
Passage of Time – Fri Jan 04, 2008
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This week’s challenge: ‘Sunrise‘.

Sunrise from Craggy Gardens on the Blue Ridge Parkway
Sunrise
Sunrise
Looks like morning in your eyes
But the clock’s held 9:15 for hours
Sunrise
Sunrise
Couldn’t tempt us if it tried
Cuz the afternoon’s already come and gone
And I said
Hooo, hooo, hooo
To you
Sunrise
by Norah Jones
From the Album Feels Like Home

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