A Virginia sky over the Blue Ridge Mountains
offers a scenic route to Heaven,
and clouds to guide the way.
Posts Tagged ‘Cloud cover’
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 »
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.
Shenandoah Shadows
Posted in Country Fotos, Mountains, nature, Sky Lights, The Land, tagged Cloud cover, country living, rural Virginia, shadows, Shenandoah Valley, Skylights, storms, stormy skies, view points, Virginia on January 13, 2018| 18 Comments »
Nature’s Etchings
Posted in Awesome Fotos, Blogging Inspiration, Camera-Walking, Country Fotos, Country Sights, Mountains, Sky Lights, tagged Blue Ridge Mountains, Cloud cover, Cloud Framing, Copycat Clouds, country photo, Mountain etching, Mountainscape, photo at dusk, rural Virginia, Shenandoah Valley, Views, Virginia Sights on June 26, 2017| 18 Comments »
Virginia Roadscape
Posted in Awesome Fotos, Country Fotos, Country Sights, Drive-By-Photography, Farms, Mountains, Photography, Sky Lights, The Land, Virginia, tagged Cloud cover, country views, landscape, perspectives, photography, Roads, Roadside Photo, Skyligghts, Virginia views on June 6, 2017| 13 Comments »
Sepia Skylights
Posted in Awesome Fotos, Country Fotos, Country Sights, Country Thoughts, February Perspectives, nature, Photography, Sky Lights, The Land, Virginia, Virginia Views, tagged art in photos, Cloud cover, dreams, photography, rural Virginia, sepia sky, Skylights on March 4, 2017| 29 Comments »
Small Town Virginia Adventures
Posted in Art, Arts and Crafts, Camera-Walking, Country Sights, Country Thoughts, Friends, People, Photography, Shopping, Uncategorized, tagged art show, Arts and crafts, bikers, Cloud cover, downtown Lexington VA, Friends, house and garden tour, Lexington VA, photography, Sheridan Livery Inn, Shopping, sidewalk sale, Virginia, Virginia events on May 2, 2016| 15 Comments »
Downtown Bikers at Lexington, VA Sidewalk Sale April 30, 2016
This weekend was chock full of fun opportunities in and around little old/ historic Lexington (Virginia that is). It was a great place to escape reality, see, meet and watch people, and participate in exciting adventures.
Three of my pals and I decided to participate in the 83rd Historic Garden Week, a “County Roads and Vines” Lexington House and Garden Tour. Wow! That sounded so interesting because it covered homes from the 1800’s and gardens that would surely inspire us to get busy on our own properties this spring. And finally we would enjoy a fitting ending to the day at the Rockbridge Vineyard for wine tasting!
But, morning brought clouds and drizzle with a 60% chance of heavy rain. Adding Dor’s bad foot to the foreboding weather with the danger of slipping on wet grass in a historic garden’s uneven terrain, we cancelled original plans in favor of lunch. Then maybe we would take a walk around town, weather permitting.
Did I mention that some small towns offer more than the mundane?
There was a sidewalk sale in Lexington! And after a chatty lunch at the Sheridan Livery Inn we four wandered around with umbrellas in tow and began to catch some local excitement. I was trying to ignore my stupid foot (with “plantar fasciitis”) which would not be ignored.
My friends in the lead checking out sidewalk sale.
Finally there was an art show at Hopkins’ Green where two of us sat down and gazed upon artful displays while the other two retrieved the car. My foot was grateful for the respite.
Today was for luxuriating at home, enjoying icing the complaining foot, stretching, and resting.
But yesterday was a grand day with great friends experiencing wonderful events all in one small American town in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
Fuzzy Colors in a Moonscape
Posted in Beauty, Camera-Walking, Country Fotos, Country Sights, Random Impressions, Sky Lights, View Points, tagged Cloud cover, country photo, country sky, Full Moon, Moon, Moonscape, photography, Sky Lights, Virginia View on August 31, 2015| 3 Comments »
I do not have a zoom lens and this was taken with my cell phone camera, but I like it anyway. There are so many colors in those clouds and the whole fuzzy effect is vaguely impressionistic.
Floating Imagination
Posted in Country Fotos, Country Sights, Country Thoughts, Mountains, Photography, Poetry, Sky Lights, tagged Blue Ridge Mountains, Changing sky, Cloud cover, cloud formations, Clouds, Country Fotos, country sky, photography, poetry, Skylights, thoughts on July 7, 2015| 8 Comments »
A pink cloud in an otherwise ordinary sky
escapes the mundane white on blue,
floating, floating aimlessly by
displaying its gossamer baby pink hue.
A feather drifting softly through space,
a lingering apparition,
floating away to dissipate
and return to imagination.
Color Me Pink
Posted in Beauty, Camera-Walking, Country Fotos, Country Thoughts, Photography, Seasons, Sky Lights, tagged Cloud cover, Colors, country sky, country views, photography, Seasons, Sky Lights, spring colors, thoughts, Virginia Sky on April 4, 2015| 13 Comments »
I am lately obsessed with color – bright brilliant color.
Shopping for something new this afternoon, I bypassed shades of gray, maroon, brown,
and leaned to yellows, oranges and pinks.
I linger over technicolor versions of life in magazines brashly, brazenly heralding Spring.
The marketeers know we are mostly fed up in this part of the world with winter blahs,
and they plot to capitalize on our yearnings for color like the color of the sky at dusk.
The Virginia sky at dusk is sometimes the color of Spring!
