Our Only Granddaughter ~ Eloise

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“Wordless Wednesday.” 

North Mountain and the Rime Ice

Rime Ice atop  House Mountain 

Rockbridge County, VA

January 22, 2012

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Just Another Cell Tower atop North Mountain

I do not personally like cell towers, but without this one we would not have any cell phone coverage at all where we are out in the boondocks. It is  up on the mountain but in an area where we go hiking at least once a month. The one positive thing it has going for it when it comes to photography is the linear qualities. It has a bit of everything from the straight to the curved, and there are LOTS of signs warning your not to get close because of the radiation. You can’t get too terribly close up and personal because of one impressive fence.

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Daily Photo ~ 4-25-11

Forest on Road to Panther Falls ~ Rockbridge County, VA


"Each generation takes the earth as trustees.  We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.”~ J. Sterling Morton 

Ugliness

Wart Man in Stone

North Mountain ~ Rockbridge County~Virginia

While hiking up on North Mountain Saturday, I discovered this rock formation perched above the valley where we live. The closer I got to it the more interesting it became, and then I saw the face with its extended forehead and protruding nose. I immediately thought of Rodin’s “The Thinker” at the Musee’ Rodin covered in warts with his head resting on the lower section of the rock. For me, I have to say it represents the epitome of ugliness. I’m sure a geologist would beg to differ, but the Flickr Macro Monday prompt did say...Ugliness~a personal interpretation."

This shot is a part of the Flickr Macro Monday Group.