I love to roam around my “backyard” with its wonderful long-range views of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Summer still hangs on but there are little clues to the coming of Autumn.
Shades of Summer
Fields of Goldenrod
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Archive for the ‘View Points’ Category
A Virginia Season
Posted in Awesome Fotos, Camera-Walking, Country Fotos, Mountains, nature, Random Impressions, Seasons, The Land, View Points, Virginia, Virginia Views, tagged Blue Ridge Mountains, country photos, Goldenrod, mountains, photography, Remnants, Signs of Fall, Summer Fading, Views, Virginia on September 23, 2018| 26 Comments »
Cloud Shower
Posted in Mysteries, Photography, Sky Lights, View Points, tagged cloud formations, Cloud Shower, Clouds, gazing, Sky, sky light, Skyward, View Point on September 22, 2018| 4 Comments »
I was gazing skyward at a woven tapestry of clouds
seemingly moving in an organized palette
to a pre-planned downward fall
in a Cloud Shower.
Heaven offers an endless array of artistic views
and some need to be remembered.
The Rainbow Ridge
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.
An Unidentified Floating Object
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:
The Mystery Barge is called the Water Wheel or Mr. Trash Wheel or officially – The Inner Harbor Water Wheel. It is a hydro and solar-powered barge parked in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor since 2014, slurping up all garbage that makes its way downriver. And it uses nothing but the current and the sun!
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.
The “Wheel” is part of a Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore’s Healthy Harbor Plan which has a goal to clean up the harbor enough to make it safe for swimming by 2020!
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.
The ingenuity of man seems boundless and The Thing in Baltimore Harbor restores my faith in our ability to clean up our own messes and make life pure again.
Now if only we could figure out how to control traffic!
Windows
Posted in Buildings, February Perspectives, Photography, Random Impressions, View Points, Virginia Views, Where to Go, tagged Cell Phone Photography, Photos, Places, Sheridan Livery Inn, Views, Virginia, Windows on March 1, 2018| 1 Comment »
View from the Sheridan Livery Inn, Lexington, Virginia
VirginiaView from the Pines
Posted in Awesome Fotos, Beauty, Camera-Walking, Country Fotos, Country Sights, February Perspectives, Mountains, Photography, The Land, Trees, View Points, tagged A Virginia View, Blue Ridge Mountains, country photos, February Fotos, mountains, photography, rural life, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia on February 12, 2018| 1 Comment »
Extraction Report
Posted in About Me, February Perspectives, Health, Humor, Memories, Survival, View Points, tagged 3rd grade, Dental extraction, humor, memories, numbing, pain, smiles, super star dentist, teeth, true story on February 10, 2018| 24 Comments »
It’s done! It’s done!
And it’s the day AFTER my tooth extraction.
My new dentist is probably the best in the entire country. He is on my Super Star list even though he does his work from an exercise ball.
Because:
- There were no needles to accomplish numbness.
- He was strong and reassuring and explained every step of the way.
- It only took 30 minutes.
- AND THERE WAS NO PAIN!!!!!! Not during the procedure and not after and not today (the day after).
What more could anyone ask?
- Well, you might want to have a reassuring dental assistant too. Ruth Ann is another star in that office and is very sweet and reassuring.
- And you might want to know if the office is efficient and knows you or remembers you. Well, I told them once that I had an adverse reaction to epinephrine and they had that on record and didn’t use it!
The whole happy event yesterday reminds me of a (true) story.
Once upon a time I was a substitute teacher for a third grade classroom (for one day).
I had no control and the children literally went wild. They were so loud they couldn’t hear me begging them to simmer down.
And one red headed little boy locked himself in the bathroom. I had to call another teacher in for help.
What does this have to do with dentists you ask? Well, I had an appointment after class. And I was never so happy to get into a dentist chair!
I know. My long ago story doesn’t really seem to fit this current extraction episode. But, actually, it does because it was my first happy dentist-experience and yesterday was my second.
