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Summer Memories
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| Leave a Comment »
Virginia Green
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 »
Losing Time
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 »
I used to keep photograph albums.
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.
This Christmas Bill gave me a SMART PHONE PHOTO PRINTER that actually works!
One brave step backward for mankind!
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.
This little machine is a miracle!
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.
Dawning of a New Day
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.
Oh, Virginia!
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 »
A Virginia sky over the Blue Ridge Mountains
offers a scenic route to Heaven,
and clouds to guide the way.
Blue Ridge Mountain Magic
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 »
There is something enchanting about the ethereal mists in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. I am still breathless for a moment when the world is quiet and serene.
View from Home The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
Blue Ridge Beauty
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.
Caught in the Act
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 »
This afternoon my camera found a young Virginia White Tailed Deer having some large leaves for dinner!
Or are they Wildlife hors doeurves?
Moonlight Musing
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 »
I have never been able to take a credible photo of the moon. This little cell phone camera doesn’t have the capacity (or maybe I don’t know what I’m doing?).
But one silvery night when the fog lay in low Virginia hollows and there was a shimmer on surfaces left wet from a creeping mist, I had to try again.
Ghostly Wildlife
Posted in Awesome Fotos, Country Fotos, Country Sights, Critters, nature, Photography, Virginia, tagged Buck, Deer, elegant, Ghostly, statuesque, Strange eyeview, Through a Screen, Virginia View, Virginia White Tailed Deer on September 29, 2018| 14 Comments »
Shot through my window screen I see a handsome but ghostly Virginia White Tailed Deer.
Isn’t he statuesque and elegant?
And how do I seem to him looking in?
