View across the Blue Ridge mountains from a Parkway overlook. North Carolina USA

There are so many views along the Blue Ridge Parkway for photographers. It seems that you could stop every quarter of a mile for a different vantage point. This location is near Asheville, North Carolina. It was a very overcast rainy and cloudy day; so no exquisite sky but the mountain range doesn't change and nature always provides shapes and lines that astound me. (Edited in Lightroom, Photo Shop and Topaz)

foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains at dawn

Infrared image with IR converted Sony NEX-7

The Blue Ridge Mountains soar

Lifting my spirit

A breathtaking delight.

inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.” ~ Sylvia Plath

Our stop at this beautiful Tanawha Bridge on our way to Rough Ridge. As you can see this is my favorite bridge in the mountains.

The fall semester is well underway at UVA but that doesn’t mean you have to miss out on our local natural beauty. I think this young lady has found a good balance.

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On the Blue Ridge after the recent ice storm

On Explore #170, March 28, 2009

This ranch land is just a few miles east of Tuggles Gap, Floyd County Virginia. The rolling foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains are very scenic and ideal for raising cattle.

Larger is much better....View On Black

North Carolina

Shenandoah Valley, Virginia

is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart. ~ Roderick Haig-Brown

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Painted using Procreate’s watercolor brushes

Asheville, NC

What the Fog! :-)

Sometimes when you lose your way in the fog, you end up in a beautiful place! Don't be afraid of getting lost!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

mountains, fogs or rains, the sun cannot create its own magic! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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Near Newland, North Carolina

An early morning scene from the Rock Castle Gorge trail off the Blue Ridge Parkway in Floyd County VA

They say home is where the heart is

But my heart is wild and free

So am I homeless

Or just heartless?

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Nature is not a place to visit.

It is home.

Gary Snyder

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I think now that I’m in the autumn of my life, and I’m getting a chance to look back at my past, I hope I have made a difference in someone’s life, brought a smile to someone’s face, given of my time, leaned over to pick someone up, spoken words of comfort, and given of my heart until it hurt. For in life, these things are the most important….

Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Mount Soma is a community commonly referred to as the “Mount Kailash of the West.” At its center is the Sri Somesvara Vedic Shiva Temple. People travel great distances to experience Sri Somesvara’s powerful linga, profound silence, and timeless vibrations. This is one of several homes in the community.

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The place where my heart and soul feels at peace with the world.

View across the Blue Ridge Mountains North Carolina

nature’s laughter. - Unknown

Rainy and foggy but really worth it!

for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

View on my farm this morning, about 5-6 inches of snow fell.

Some parts of Virginia received over 12 inches.

The temperature the next morning is 11F (-11.6C).

I added fall color to my summer photo hoping it might make it a bit cooler around here! :)

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To my Tennessee friend.... Cindy. A view of Eastern Tennessee taken from the Blue Ridge Mountains at Wolf Laurel Resort, elevation 5500'.

the light of things, let nature be your teacher. ~ William Wordsworth

Beautiful morning @ Tanawha Trail off the Blue Ridge Pkwy, NC.

Airbnb in Newland, North Carolina

(Check out the wire rabbit hanging on the right center of the photo!)

Warm evening light on the Bue Ridge Mountains, from the Looking Glass Rock overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.

In Virginia off the Blue Ridge Parkway.

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the forest for our

children, grandchildren and children yet to be born.

We must protect the forest for those who can't speak

for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.

~ Qwatsinas (Hereditary Chief Edward Moody) Nuxalk Nation

Enjoying this amazing forest with my beautiful wife!

Just going through some of the shots from the Blue Ridge trip & found the misty morning shots I'd forgotten about.

mid-autumn color in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virgnia