Black Rock Summit
Peak of Black Rock Mountain

Back in college, I often drove out to the Blue Ridge to clear my head. A couple of hours on the Parkway or Skyline Drive did wonders to reset whatever was muddling my thoughts. My buddy, sometime roommate, often did the same. He was up from Guatemala for a while this summer, and we converged out in Shenandoah fo
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Urbanna (something-something) Rum Appreciation, Rowing and Small Boat Meetup
View from our campsite. Jim Luton's Sharpie Skiff, now owned and sailed by his friend Kerry Fisher.

Vera England can tell you the entire official name. She told me four times and I sti
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Duck Soup

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Was Warthog

Old steamboat office
Freeport, Virginia

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Nature is Metal ~ Wool Sower Wasp Galls
Wool Sower Gall on young White Oak

The tiny Wool Sower Wasp stings a fresh young stem and deposits her eggs. The developing eggs use chemicals like hormones to stimulate the tree to produce a very specific growth structure that encases and protects the larvae. This growth is not a normal shape or color or texture of t
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Ducks, Geese, & Peepers
Winter is almost over; sooner than past years, for sure.

Took a hike in the hills above a stream. The leaves aren't out yet, but the sun and breeze are warm. Spring Peepers are back. Ducks and geese are migrating north again, stopping over in the sheltered backwaters.

When a new flock arrives, calling out, the ones on the water call back to
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