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 »
Posted in Country Challenges, Country Sights, Drive-By-Photography, February Perspectives, Mountains, Survival, Travel in Virginia, Virginia, tagged Afton Mountain, Charlottesville, Driving, fog, Lights, Roadways, Travel, Virginia View on February 27, 2018| 19 Comments »
My BigFoot “Expert Doctor” is in Charlottesville, Virginia.
It’s about an hour and a half drive over the legendary Afton Mountain.
And even on a clear day you can be confronted with fog.
There are lights embedded in the roadway but it still feels treacherous.
And it may not actually be fog, but the signs say so. Last time we went “over the hill” we could see a low lying cloud enshrouding the roadway, and then drove right into it.
What a thrill it is to creep along and wonder how bad it could get and would we careen over the edge?
Can you tell I am a worrier?
We have survived the winter with several visits over Afton Mountain and actually this was the first time to experience fog.
From Virginia Living: “The drop-dead gorgeous scenery disappears when clouds blanket the mountain. Fog and ice make for a white-knuckled grip on the steering wheel. VDOT (Virginia Department of Transportation) has addressed safety by installing expensive airport runway lights along the 64 roadway to guide motorists…”
Posted in Awesome Fotos, Barns, Blogging Inspiration, Camera-Walking, Country Fotos, Mountains, nature, The Land, Virginia Views, tagged Blog Fog, Blue Ridge Mountains, fog, Kitchen Window View, Mist, nature, rural Virginia, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, weather on January 29, 2018| 12 Comments »
Posted in Camera-Walking, Country Fotos, Country Sights, Home and Hearth, Photography, Sky Lights, The Land, View Points, Virginia, Virginia Views, tagged A Virginia View, country living, country photo, country sights, deckside view, fog, home and hearth, photography, rising sun, Shenandoah Valley, Sky Lights, the land, Virginia on December 9, 2015| 23 Comments »
Posted in Awesome Fotos, Country Thoughts, Poetry, The Land, tagged American Civil War, blooging inspiration, fog, memories, poetry on May 1, 2013| 22 Comments »
Fencing Off the Fog was a photo-post I did earlier this month. Friends urged me to write a poem to go with it, and so I have. With fog drifting into the forests and hollows of this part of Virginia, I often think of the suffering soldiers in the Civil War. I have placed the photo at the end of the poem.
FENCING OFF THE FOG
There is a forest beside my Southern home,
and a heavy fog is slinking in.
I imagine ghostly images
of weary soldiers
shrouded in that gossamer film;
and a sea of boy-bodies
who might only be sleeping
amid tattered desolation and bleeding.
They were young sons-of-the-south
turned warriors
marching forward without pause
screaming the Rebel yell,
not yet knowing it was a Lost Cause.
I need to fence off the fog
until my imagination turns
to the outcome of a more perfect union,
turning from that waste of war
to sunshine,
in the southern reverie of mint juleps,
magnolia blossoms
and peace and love.
I need to fence off the fog.
Fencing Off the Fog
Virginia Views 