The Blue Ridge Parkway
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I always enjoy a good scene, but it is so much more interesting when there is a story that goes with it. While visiting, I met a woman whose grandmother was born in this cabin. I can't imagine what that would have been like.
“There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.”
Natalie Clifford Barney (American Writer, 1876-1972)
“Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.”
Oscar Wilde
A view of the James River from the pedestrian walkway/Canal Locks Trail under the Harry Flood Byrd Memorial Bridge on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Seen near the Canal Locks Trail near the Harry Flood Byrd Memorial Bridge on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
We were driving on the Parkway, and we came around a corner and saw this. We couldn’t stop, but we slowed down enough for me to quickly shoot this with my cell phone.
“Music fathoms the sky.”
Charles Baudelaire (French Poet of Decadent & Parnassian movements. Wrote poetry collection "Les Fleurs du Mal" (1857), 1821-1867)
A curving stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway. I took this shot from the Three Ridges Mountain Overlook near the border of Augusta/Nelson County, Virginia.
“We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.”
Chuang Tzu quotes (The most significant of China's early interpreters of Taoism, 389-286 BC)
“Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits.”
Nancy Long
If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the Earth. And this is the voice of the earth.
Joseph Campbell
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
In June I helped Alison with a move to New Jersey from Austin, TX. The drive took us 4 days. We took a slight detour to drive about 100 miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway from Asheville, NC on our way to Virginia. We had beautiful weather and views.
View from Pine Tree Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway overlooking Goose
Creek Valley in Bedford County, Va
“There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.”
Douglas Adams (British comic Writer, 1952-2001)
On the Blue ridge Parkway just north of the James River. I meant to post this last week. DSC_2824-29