In a moment like this
I think there is no finer place to be
than in my own back yard
viewing
the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
Posted in Awesome Fotos, Beauty, Blogging Inspiration, Country Fotos, Country Sights, February Perspectives, Fences, Friday's Fences, Look at This!, Mountains, nature, The Land, Uncategorized, View Points, Virginia, Virginia Views, tagged Backyard View, Blue Ridge Mountains, country views, Fencing, Pastureland, rural Virginia, Skylights, Special Moments, Views, Virginia views on February 16, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Blogging Inspiration, Country Sights, Country Thoughts, Entertainment, Look at This!, Virginia Views, Where to Go, tagged 5K Race, Charity Benefit, Devil Dog Dare, Devil Pup Dare, Marine Mud Run, Mud, Racing, Roanoke Virginia, Salem Virginia, Virginia View on October 6, 2018| 12 Comments »
My Friend, Amy
That’s was my reaction when Amy, said she is going on a mud run tomorrow.
Mud Run? What is a mud run?
Amy gets into the most interesting things like trampoline jumpology parties, escape rooms, getting a trucker’s license, playing the violin and taking cello lessons, etc! And she never fails to provide varying subjects for blog posts.
But have you ever heard of the Marine Mud Run in Salem, Virginia?
That is her latest?
Posted in Awesome Fotos, Camera-Walking, Country Fotos, Country Sights, Look at This!, Photography, Sky Lights, The Land, Uncategorized, tagged Cell Phone Camera, deckside view, fog, moonlight photo, Moonrise, Nigh, Night, photography, Random thoughts, Virginia, Virginia Hollows on October 1, 2018| 19 Comments »
Posted in Awesome Fotos, Country Fotos, Country Sights, Country Thoughts, Look at This!, Mountains, nature, Photography, The Land, Trees, View Points, Virginia, tagged Blue Ridge Mountains, Cloud cover, Landscape photos, mountain range, Rainbows, rural Virginia, Summer, Views, weather on August 2, 2018| 28 Comments »
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.
Posted in History and Places, Look at This!, Mysteries, Out of Town, Technology, View Points, tagged Baltimore Inner Harboir, Health, Healthy Harbor Plan, John Kellett inventor, Mr. Trash Wheel, River Pollution, Swimming in Baltimore Harbor, Water Wheel on April 9, 2018| 13 Comments »
We were in Baltimore, Maryland and enjoying breakfast.
Discussing sightseeing adventures might have been a good topic of conversation.
Instead we were concentrating on Naming An Unidentified Floating Object we could see out the window!
The “thing” was a giant water wheel with no familiar or observable purpose.
Being rather shy and reserved people (from the Virginia countryside) we are usually hesitant to ask questions. But the temptation was too great, so Bill finally asked the restaurant manager, “What is that thing?”
Not being shy or reserved, the manager gave us a mini-history lesson.
Inner Harbor Water Wheel, Baltimore, Maryland
“That is a water cleaner, said the Manager.” It has been here for four years. People would dump things in the water and it was 80% polluted. Now it is 40% polluted. The goal is to make the water in the Inner Harbor swimmable by 2020. Very young engineers maintain the project and it costs almost nothing to run.”
“Does it have a name?” I asked.
“What is that shell you hold to your ear?….you know – a Conch!” he said.
I decided to look up the conch shell water cleaner when we got home, but couldn’t find a thing until I began looking up Cleaning Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. If it is called a CONCH, I find no reference to it, but here is what I did find:
Historic ship manager, John Kellett, was getting sick of watching garbage in the rivers on his way to work, so he invented this giant floating wheel that turns with the current. It places trash from the harbor onto an on-board conveyor belt which then routes it into dumpsters on board.
Before Mr. Trash Wheel
On April 20, 2015, Mr. Trash Wheel removed 19 tons of garbage in that one day. And at the end of the first quarter in 2016 it was noted that the Wheel had collected over 1,000,000 pounds of trash since its inception.
Posted in Awesome Fotos, Blogging Inspiration, Country Fotos, Country Sights, Look at This!, Seasons, Snow, The Land, Uncategorized, Virginia, tagged Good Morning Virginia, landscape photography, Snow, Snowfall, view points, Virginia views, Winter on March 22, 2018| 17 Comments »