So here is a selection of pictures from the fifth day on the mountains... Check out the post of that day Thursday morning on the mountain - Thursday, June 29. Today's images are taken as we meandered our way down off the mountain and along the River Road into Valle Crucis…
So here is a selection of pictures from the fourth day on the mountains... Check out the post of that day Slept In On The Mountain Morning Coffee Muses - Wednesday, June 28. We drove north on the Parkway almost to the Virginia line... Stopping at the Brinegar Cabin (to take pictures…
So here is a selection of pictures from the third day on the mountains... Check out the post of that day Mountain Sunrise Morning Coffee Muses - Tuesday, June 27
So here is a selection of pictures from the second day on the mountains... Check out the post of that day First Mountain Morning Coffee Muses - Monday, June 26
Yeah, I know. I procrastinate way to much. But I finally pulled the photo's off the camera memory card. Here's the shots from the day we arrived... Sunday, June 25 I'll post another set tomorrow.
Motel Room Morning Coffee Muses Trussville, Alabama. It's just a Quality Inn back off the interstate. Old style motel, well maintained rooms, restaurants within walking distance... even for me. We've stayed here before. It's only a place to lay your head between two long days on the road. If I've…
Our last morning on the mountain, getting ready to head home...
Just Another Rainy Mountaintop Morning Coffee Muses
Thursday morning on the mountain Another late morning start to my coffee muses... The Day is starting out the warmest we've felt yet. 60° right now but breezy still from last night. Mt Airy was warm, over eighty, but not too bad. It was a nice little town, we had…
Slept In On The Mountain Morning Coffee Muses Late nights and mountain air conspired to keep me in bed till well after sunrise this morning. The morning temperatures aren't quite as cool and the forecast is for a bit warmer today. The forecasted high is 72°... yesterday's high was 65°.…
Mountain Sunrise Morning Coffee Muses Boy the sun rises early here. It's a chilly start to the morning here on Tom's Knob. It's 51 and change to start the day. There's a hound baying up the road. Unknown birds singing to the daybreak. Now there's another dog answering the hound.…
This isn't a coffee muses... I'm having water after unloading the car. More Photos Here And... enjoying that view. Later, I'll be enjoying that hot tub as the evening temperature drops thru the fifties before settling into the forties... catch you all tomorrow...
A cool front was moving through the area as I watched that morning. The day promised to be pleasantly warm and not as uncomfortably hot as it had been all week.
We headed north out of Houston on Tuesday before the sun came up and hit Oklahoma soon after noon. I had routed our trip to take advantage of the Arkansas Mountains...We had reservations at Queen Wilhelmena State Park for the first night of our travels.
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…
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...
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…
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…
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.…
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…
Old Farmhouse, Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia, November 12, 2007 Passage of Time - Fri Jan 04, 2008 This week's challenge: 'Passage of Time'. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page that will always show your challenge image,…
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…
We seem to be having another of those foggy fall mornings...The temperature is predicted to be rising through the weekend. I have even heard predictions of 70's this weekend. So it looks like fall has teased us again. Just another example of the many changes life puts us through. Life…
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We wandered over to my mother's house about noon on Thursday carrying our contribution to the feast. Both of my brothers were already there. Of my sisters one had arrived and one was running late...So far everything was normal for the day.…
May you have a great day giving thanks with kith and kin. Enjoy being with those you love if you can. Have some pie for me...I'll be trying to refrain from indulging. For all of those whose turkey carving skills rank up there with my own, you may want to…
The Floyd Country Store on a frosty Sunday morning. The Jacksonville Cemetery in the foreground. The Barbershop... The Stoplight... Farmer's Supply... Oddfella's Cantina...
You know it's time to go back to work when you get up and the weather outside has turned back to Texas. It's 65° with a humidity of 97%. In other words, looking outside right now you can see the air under the neighbors night lights. The prognosticators are predicting…
I passed this old farm as we drove south on the Blue Ridge Parkway from Floyd to Boone. I nestled down a bit off the road behind a line of round hay bales. Just enough of a glimpse out of the passenger side window to force me to turn around…
This week's challenge: 'Travel'. Eight States, ten Days, 1750 miles, five hotel rooms, from heat to freezing to fall comfortable to snow to fall comfortable. That's Travel...And here's my Vacation Slideshow for proof... . Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to…
Pushed through to home last night and arrived about 10pm...I see why I have a love/hate relationship with the American Interstate Road system. While they let you cover immense distances in a single day they are essentially...boring. Long corridors through the countryside, shut off from the real world by a…
