Posted in Beauty, Country Fotos, Country Sights, Country Thoughts, Fences, Home, Home and Hearth, Look at This!, Memories, Photography, The Land, View Points, tagged Cooking with a View, country living, Future, Home, kitchen window, landscape photography, Shenandoah Valley, View Point, Virginia on November 12, 2021| 22 Comments »
I never tire of the sweeping view, especially whilst cooking and standing at the kitchen window.
How blessed we are to have found this place and recognized it as home.
Thirty-two years ago I would hum happily en route to this 20 acre plot where there was no home yet . It was a place in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia where we could imagine a future.
The land stayed unspoiled. The house Bill designed sustained us.
And “the future is now.”
Posted in Blogging Inspiration, Country Fotos, Home, Home and Hearth, Memories, Mountains, Photography, Seasons, The Land, View Points, Virginia Views, tagged Blue Ridge Mountains, country living, photography, rural Virginia, storm clouds, Summer, Summer view on October 21, 2021| 2 Comments »
Posted in Awesome Fotos, Country Fotos, Home, Photography, Random Impressions, The Land, View Points, Virginia Views, tagged Cloudy skies, deck views, homeplace, Rain, summer green, view points, Virginia Green on July 14, 2020| 13 Comments »
Posted in Awesome Fotos, Country Fotos, Country Thoughts, Friends, People, Photography, Selfies, Technology, trends, tagged albums, cell phone pictures, Lost time, photo albums, photo printer, Photographs, progress, smart phone, the cloud on January 5, 2020| 24 Comments »
But somewhere around 2006 the albums came to an abrupt halt. It was about the time I received the gift of a cell phone that produced remarkable pictures.
The problem was that all photos from 2006 onward became buried somewhere in the phone or in my computer or in the nebulous ubiquitous CLOUD.
The “progress” in technology resulted in a twilight zone of lost time.
I stopped mounting my favorite shots lovingly in a photo album.
Time stopped.
I have now reopened the last unfilled, ready-and-waiting-photo-album and began adding some pictures of a friend’s baby sent to us in a Christmas card. Then there are smart phone photos; one of Bill on New Year’s Eve, a somewhat jarring selfie of me, a shot of Elsa-the-dog, and a picture of two good friends who came visiting over the holiday.
Will it result in a rebirth of the age-old practice of saving photographs in albums?
If you ask me, no. I am already sure the gadget will stop or the materials will no longer be available.
But it’s a start. Time to take pictures! And at least for the beginning of 2020 there will be memories in an album.
Posted in Awesome Fotos, Country Fotos, Country Sights, Mountains, nature, Photography, Sky Lights, The Land, View Points, Virginia Views, tagged Blue Ridge Mountains, Deck View, Miracles, Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, storm clouds, Sunrise, Virginia Viewpoint on October 29, 2019| 27 Comments »
The Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
Just another miracle here – the dawning of a new day.
The sun is rising over lingering storm clouds over the Blue Ridge Mountain range and finally over the foothills and hollows of home.
Posted in Country Sights, Photography, Sky Lights, View Points, Virginia, tagged Blue Ridge Mountains, Cloud cover, Pathway to Heaven, Scenic Route, Skyscape, Sunlight Portal, Virginia Sky on August 11, 2019| 12 Comments »
Posted in Beauty, Camera-Walking, Country Fotos, Country Sights, Country Thoughts, Fences, Mountains, nature, Photography, The Land, View Points, Virginia, tagged Blue Ridge Mountains, fencelines, Forests, Mountain Mist, mountain view, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia View on May 29, 2019| 10 Comments »
View from Home The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
Posted in Awesome Fotos, Blogging Inspiration, Camera-Walking, Country Fotos, Country Sights, Mountains, Photography, Snow, The Land, Uncategorized, View Points, Virginia, tagged Blue Ridge Mountains, country views, landscape photography, Mountain Views, Pictures, rural views, Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Snow, views from the deck, Virginia View Point on January 26, 2019| 24 Comments »
I never tire of the views from this little house in rural Virginia.
And even now, after so many years and so many pictures, there are still moments when I feel compelled once again to try to capture the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The Blue Ridge is sometimes shrouded in mist or covered in snow, or blue against the sky, or blanketed in fog, and always stunning.
The snow was clearing a few days ago here in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
And it was one of those days when I simply had to get one more picture.
Posted in Country Fotos, Country Sights, Critters, nature, Photography, Virginia Views, Visitors, tagged Buck, Caught, country living, Deer, nature's snacks, snacks, Virginia White Tailed Deer, wildlife hors doeurves, wildlife photography on October 15, 2018| 13 Comments »
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 »
Virginia Views 