A Pretty Spot to Ourselves
On a cold January day, you can have the pretty Bottom Creek Gorge Preserve to yourself. At least we did on this day, until we were back at the car and another couple was about to start in.
The feeling of isolation is abetted some by the ruins of the o...
Read more...Discovering Big South Fork
Cumberland Plateau Beauty
A unique combination of national river and national recreation area preserves a section of the Cumberland Plateau west of the Blue Ridge. As the geologic splendor of the region receives national recognition, more and more vis...
Read more...The Round Barns of Madison County
Circular barns, popular a century ago for their efficiencies of materials, labor and use, have largely left the landscape. One, in the foothills of Virginia, has recently been re-upped for the next 100 years.
Winding east on Va. 230 through the hills ...
Read more...Two Parks in Winter
Often in winter, the Blue Ridge Parkway , linking Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park and Tennessee/North Carolina’s Great Smoky Mountains National Park , is closed by snow. But the two parks linked by the roadway come alive with winter under the lens of R...
Read more...Trail Towns
You've heard of trail magic? Those little acts of kindness that happen along the AT, gifts left behind from nameless givers.
Read more...TWEETSIE : A Timeless Theme Park
All of a sudden, we took a turn and found the Country Fair. It was loaded with rides, like little cars to drive, plus a merry-go-round, and it all sat in the middle of the Tweetsie Railroad theme park, encircled by the active train tracks of the thre...
Read more...Music, Mosquitoes and Memories
It’s been a year since I last heard that fall sound, the sound of my youth, floating on the cooling air in our neighborhood of an afternoon, before the leaves have started changing but after the sky has started taking on its crisp, colder blue.
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The Fool in the Woods, aka Blue Ridge Country editor in chief Kurt Rheinheimer, is back with more great woodland information and secrets, this time reporting on how Virginia's Devil's Marbleyard was formed.
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