Archive for the ‘View Points’ Category
An Autumn Leaf Dreaming of Spring
Posted in Blogging Inspiration, Camera-Walking, Country Sights, Country Thoughts, Mysteries, nature, Random Impressions, Seasons, Survival, Trees, View Points, Virginia, tagged Autumn leaf, country life, dreams, Forests, life, One Leaf, Tree branches, Virginia red Cardinal, Virginia weather, winds, Winter on March 9, 2019| 20 Comments »
Daffy in Spring
Posted in Country Fotos, Country Thoughts, Look at This!, nature, Seasons, View Points, Virginia, tagged Blooms, daffodils, Rain, Rainy Days, Signs of Spring, Spring, Sunshine, Winter Weather on March 4, 2019| 17 Comments »
It rained all day today.
It rained yesterday.
And there was snow and sleet the day before.
But when the sun came out for a second
there was another sign of Spring!
Oh, 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| 24 Comments »
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.
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.
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 »
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
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 »