This has been the strangest summer in Virginia. It has been cool, then verging on hot and dry, then overcast, and lots of rain more often than not. Such weird changes have marked summertime until on this day it feels like Fall and friends are airing their expectations for Christmas on FaceBook.
Well, yesterday the Blue Ridge Mountains were shrouded in mist. Then the sun magnified our ever-green surroundings, and Ahhhhh, just look at that fat happy rainbow too!
I am now calling the view from my kitchen window The Rainbow Ridge.
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very pretty
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Lovely!
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That’s a gorgeous photograph, Dor! You need to sell these!
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You caught that picture at the perfect moment!
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Weird summer here too!
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I love your rainbow. We have had some spectacular ones on this end of the mountains, at least in past years. This year we’ve had so much rain that the sun couldn’t get through to work its magic. I’m not complaining, though, because we’ve had very few hot days.
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Perfect name! Hope you are getting around better. Do you own a hoveround machine?
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You are my inspiration!
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Thank you Al! It surely seemed that way.
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I love this on again off again summer weather too…. cooler than most.
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Thanks Eunice! And no, I do not own a motorized machine. I have a self driven scooter though haven’t used it in many months now. I am able to walk – sometimes more painfully than others, and I do get a motorized shopping cart at the grocery store. Thanks for asking. 🙂 Hoping you are on the mend too and getting around o.k.
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❤
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I love the name Rainbow Ridge. The simplicity of beauty in nature is so powerful. ❤
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Weird summer weather here also, but I like the cooler temps and lower humidity so I’m a happy camper. Bring on the fall-like days since it is my favorite season. Oh…that view of yours is stupendous. Rainbow Ridge it is and quite lovely too!
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Thank you for the view of that magnificent rainbow. Seriously, Christmas expectations? Say it’s not so! I’m sticking with summer rainbows.
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Nothing I like better than to see your beautiful view. Dorann, my nephew is hiking the Appalachian Trail and went through the Blue Ridge last week – gorgeous countryside for sure.
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OMG since giving up all the food I love and eating fruit and eating 5 times a day the pain is gone and I am loosing weight who knew 🙂 I hope you feel better soon HUGS
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Thank you Mary. The Appalachian Trail is quite a challenge for hikers. I hope your nephew is enjoying the whole experience.
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Ditto Kathy…. summer rainbows it is!
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I love Fall too and this summer has been sending us glimpses of the cooler weather to come. 🙂
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Yes, Bill and I live in rural Virginia surrounded by pasture and forest. Munch would love it! 🙂
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Thanks Dorann. It’s been tough in some aspects from mental stress, physical injuries and plain exhaustion, but needless-to-say he has had a great run of it. Should be hitting Harpers Ferry today and then will head of North to the most northern point of the trail in Maine and come south bound back to Harpers Ferry this way if bad weather hits they won’t be in Maine or NH. He has been tested and has learned alot about himself – humble at times, strong at others, more confidence with each mile crossed – happens when a bear is staring at you eyeball-to-eyeball.
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That sounds like Munch’s idea of heaven ☺
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Summer has been strange everywhere in the world, Dora. I loved your picture and couldn’t stop looking at it. You’ve done an excellent job. 😉
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Superb 🙂
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The Trail is not for sissies. A friend of ours son did it and came here for an overnight (we are nearby). He and his partner literally reeked and were so happy to have a shower. I could tell they were totally exhausted, but they started off again in the morning. Kudos to your nephew!
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Sounds just like my nephew. He got bit by a spider and had an allergic reaction, thank goodness he had three other hiking buddies (and one’s wife is a Dr.). They had to keep a close eye on him for 24 hours and couldn’t be moved, every hour they were waking him up and pumping him up with water. After 24 hours, they split up his gear among themselves and literally had to carry him down off the mountain. And as incredible as this seems, the Dr. and his hiking buddy lived only 4 miles from the actual point where all this was taking place Staubin, VA. He recovered after about 5 days (they all stayed at their house). They made it then finally to Harpers Ferry. But have decided three days ago that they wouldn’t make it to ME before they close the path to the Mt. Katadhin, so they left Harpers Ferry and drove straight through to Millinocket, ME and starting this morning hiked to the top of the summit (Mt. Katadhin) and are now making their way south bound to complete the trail going all the way back down to Harper’s Ferry. While it is an odd loop, they will complete the entire trail, but only doing it this way. I haven’t heard form him yet, don’t know how far they made it today. He said earlier that the last 48 hours have been a blur and they are all dead tired. But Dorann they are young and can do things we only dream of now. Yeah he told me they reek!
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Yikes! I hope your nephew is fully recovered. What a terrible experience with the spider bite. The Trail is a wonder of nature but sometimes nature has no mercy. And you are so right about the young being resilient. Those were the days…….
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