Some photos friends on Facebook liked… text added weeks later, after original smartphone upload of photos… If the captions sound like “alt text” descriptions, that’s because I didn’t have time to do both.
Some photos friends on Facebook liked… text added weeks later, after original smartphone upload of photos… If the captions sound like “alt text” descriptions, that’s because I didn’t have time to do both.
I made it to both the Rocky Knob and Smart View picnic areas on the Blue Ridge Parkway last weekend, just down the road from my favorite place to play music in Floyd, Virginia. Friends on Facebook have said very…
I often leave the Floyd, Virginia, Sunday afternoon fiddles-and-banjos jam session and drive south to the Blue Ridge Parkway’s hiking trails to walk and take some photos. This weekend, I decided to stay in town and headed up and down…
That class I never took on “Entropy in Roosevelt-era National Park Service infrastructure”… just some random photographs from a January walk through the Rocky Knob picnic area hiking trails on the Blue Ridge Parkway, Floyd, Va. The picnic area roadway…
October 1 photos … just something to keep this blog alive, although it is hardly journalism or just about journalism anymore… I am posting this with the WordPress app on my aging Android phone for the first time in a…
Embarrassed that I haven’t used this blog in months, so here are a couple of pictures that I already uploaded to Facebook after a late Sunday afternoon saunter through the Rocky Knob Picnic Area and Rock Castle Gorge Overlook on…
Snapped this photo with my smartphone on my first 2022 visit to the Rocky Knob area along the Blue Ridge Parkway — after enough January snow and ice had melted to make the trail friendlier. I also shot video farther…
The Blue Ridge Parkway Rocky Knob Rec Area features include great “overlooks,” a campground I’ve never used (living just an hour away), and a picnic area with tall trees, rhododendron thickets, a couple of restrooms, many deer, and maybe 100…
We have had our first ice storm of the winter here in Southwest Virginia. In an entirely unrelated development, I injured my right hand last month so I’m playing less music lately, but down at the Floyd Country Store the…
Update: Doug’s condition was listed as “good” after 20 days in the hospital, according to a page one story in the Roanoke Times on Dec.2, with a cautionary line that the term is relative, and that he is in need…
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