Snow Leaving for Now

 The snow has almost melted, but frigid temperatures are returning tonight.

 Goodbar Farm
Wire Fencing

 Rexrode Farm

Wire Fencing

 Rexrode Cattle Guard

 MOO! The snow is totally gone in more and more areas.
These guys prefer the road to being fenced in. They are always breaking out.

Now, this is a BIG puddle!
Metal Fencing

 Sunrise ~ January 27, 2014

  Sunrise over Route 60 in Front of the House ~ January 27, 2014

 Big House and Little House Mountains at Sunrise
More Wire Fencing

Lots of School Buses in People’s Yards
Finally, Wood Fencing

 People just leave vintage tools in the fields to rust away.

 Maury River 
The red sign in the distance is a warning sign. A high school student went over the dam there and was killed a number of years ago. The currents are pretty severe at times at this location. The old railroad bridge was turned into a footbridge, but it was washed away two times and never rebuilt. I have taken pictures of this area in the sumer but never in the winter.

Virginia Military Institute in the Distance

A Rather Nice Appalachian Trail Sign

I wish Springtime was under this sign instead of spring water.

The Skyline Drive Closed Due to Crummy Weather

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Snow on the Creek

 7:00 AM

8:45 Bud Leaving for work

 Crossing our Bridge to Somewhere

Up at the Road Where He Left the Car

Here are some shots from around the property...

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My Favorite Winter Tree

The rains quit today, and the gray finally gave way to a bit of blue. I was coming home from the grocery store when I decided to stop at my favorite tree and take some picture with my trusty iPhone.

Big House Mountain is in the background. If you look hard enough, you will see a tire swing hanging from one of the branches. Oh, how I wish I could have walked out there and sat in the tire. That would have been such fun for an old lady. I just love the shape and branches of this old tree in the wintertime without any leaves. It is absolutely beautiful.

This is one of those times that I found the telephone pole to be interesting.

This is the fence that kept me from going out into the field.

I am way too old to crawl under barbed wire or climb over a cattle gate.

Across the road is the old homeplace of a fellow former teacher. It has a wonderful view

of Big House and Little House Mountains across the road, and it has heavenly porches on both the front and the right side. It is so pretty.

Finally, as I was leaving, I looked up and there was some blue popping through the clouds.

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A Stream-Friendly Farm

Have any of you have Blogger do this to you. I posted the post with everything AOK, but after reading a comment and publishing it I lost that posting and Blogger took me back to an earlier draft. Now I am having to go back and figure out what I said. What a pain in the neck. It is also messing up all my typing and putting words not where I placed them.

Many of the farms around us have little signs on them stating that they are Land Trusts, but I have never seen one like this. The farm is located outside of Staunton, Virginia.

I took this picture from right to center. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky, but there was still a wee bit of left over snow on the ground.

This is the center shot with the driveway up to the barn showing off the beautiful old unpainted wooden fences.

This is the view off to the right. To me it is so pretty with the fencing, shadows. the small building, and the beautiful sky peeking through the barren trees. It is a beautiful farm.

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Barn with the Green Roof

“There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delightedted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the mum or of rivulets.”

~Samuel Johnson

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Our Visit to the Peaks of Otter

One of Bud’s and my favorite places to stay for a weekend or visit for a day is Peaks of Otter Lodge up on the Blue Ridge Parkway at Bedford, Virginia. Yesterday was a cool, breezy day so off we went, and here is a collection of shots from our ride and walk around Abbot Lake.

Scenes along the Way

OOPS...I just noticed I put one of the barns in two times. Sorry about that :-(

Peaks of Otter Lodge

When you look across Abbott Lake in the first picture, 

you would see the lodge back off to the left. It sits on that long stretch of land.

Sharp Top Mountain, Abbott Lake, fences, a row boat, clouds, 
shadows, and reflections.

Foot bridges, the tunnel over to the Johnson Farm, lots of shadows, 

and a bit of Buddy in the distance.

 Milkweed

The tree shots were taken while I was resting on the bench. I was pretending I was Georgia O’Keefe lying on the ground drawing the trees above me...but this time I was taking pictures with my old pink Canon point and shoot of the bare trees stretching their arms towards the sky.

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