Virginia Breeze/ From the Mountains To The Ocean
Table of contents for 2/ Mountains of Virginia
- Virginia Breeze/ From the Mountains To The Ocean
- Blue Ridge Mountains
- Blue Ridge Community College/ Graduation Day
One of the reasons I love Virginia so much and the reason I named this weblog after it is that you can go from the mountains to the ocean in about four or five hours. This state has four seasons. And you can experience them way up in the sky or down at ocean level. Yesterday it was cold standing up on those rocks looking out over the miles of space and mountains. You can probably see for twenty five miles up there. That’s just a guess on my part but you can see a long ways once you get up on one of the lookouts positioned for great sightseeing and photos. The foliage was not the best possible but the view more than made up for it. And there is always next year and the hope that one day I will somehow capture a most wonderful shot. I took some more shots of the mountain expanses and will post them over at my other weblog www.photolinklove.com
I hope that someday this weblog will include hundreds of posts about different aspects of this lovely state. And it will be about our lives too as we enjoy the freedoms that generations of Virginians fought to secure and preserve over the years. I took a photo of a rock where George Washington carved his initials and it is in this blog. That’s pretty special to me. And I really need to get up to Monticello and take some photos of Thomas Jefferson’s work up there. There is so much here that I have not even thought of exploring yet.
One of the other things that is difficult to take a picture of here is the way people tend to treat each other. I noticed right away when I came here that people acted with more courtesy towards strangers . It was clear on the roadways and in the stores. Generally they didn’t know how to drive in snow like Northerners did but you can’t have everything! At least they were nicer to talk to after they slid into you! In fact I can remember during one storm actually sliding into someone ever so gently. It was bumper to bumper contact. And they just waved and went on down the road. They knew it couldn’t be helped and it didn’t do any real damage.
So I didn’t know how to drive either. Living down here has helped me relax in some ways. And I feel that I did my children and grandchildren a favor by moving down here. They are southerners and I haven’t ever heard them talk about wanting to move elsewhere. Hopefully we will have snow this winter. We didn’t have any real winter storms last year. But we have had some real blizzards in the past. Anything is possible. We even had a little dusting of snow in April last year. I have some photos of that and will post a couple of them.
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