May 9,2015 Waynesboro, Virginia... heading North..

The reason for taking photographs - for me - is to share what has caught my eye.

A story in a few words with an images conveys so much information.

Sometimes, I've just seen something I learned about earlier but now have the opportunity to capture an image that brings that idea, item, story, insect, animal, child, human, landscape, flower, whatever it is to life by being able to share it with you. I've seen it, now I want you to as well, so you can learn as well or simply to enjoy the beauty that stopped me along the way.

Traveling today from Durham, NC to Waynesboro, VA along Rt 29 left the NC landscape of tobacco sheds but not red soils.  Spring was in full bloom and moving on in Durham, but just taking hold on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia.

Old Tobacco shed with new roof and red NC clay soil.

Walking yesterday, the lovely blossoms of a Tulip Tree.

Horses in fields of buttercups.

Maybe, just maybe you can see
the four foot long reddish snake at the left of the photo.

The upper cement block had a black snake
with brown strips far apart and a large lump
in its belly.

How many feet???

Fairly certain this is part of the headwaters of James River.

Restored farming settlement at Humphries Rock
on Blue Ridge Parkway.

Inside of springhouse in settlement.

Just uphill from Springhouse at settlement.

Detail of construction of Root Cellar.

More Root Cellar detail.

Root Cellar with rock dividers inside.

Just a sampling of the split rail fences.

More Root Cellar detail.

Whizzing past the treetops.