Finally, a winter cold spell sufficient to make it feel–and look–seasonal. So while I’m sort of short on blogging words, I’ll simply put up a half-dozen images over the remainder of the week for your warm-inside view of bundle-up and step-carefully weather along Goose Creek. Click to enlarge.
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Fred First holds masters degrees in Vertebrate Zoology and physical therapy, and has been a biology teacher and physical therapist by profession. He moved to southwest Virginia in 1975 and to Floyd County in 1997. He maintains a daily photo-blog, broadcasts essays on the Roanoke NPR station, and contributes regular columns for the Floyd Press and Roanoke's Star Sentinel. His two non-fiction books, Slow Road Home and his recent What We Hold in Our Hands, celebrate the riches that we possess in our families and communities, our natural bounty, social capital and Appalachian cultures old and new. He has served on the Jacksonville Center Board of Directors and is newly active in the Sustain Floyd organization. He lives in northeastern Floyd County on the headwaters of the Roanoke River.
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So beautiful! Speaks so many words, you don’t need to say anything.
Beautiful!! I look on this website to see the beautiful pictures of va.
This one reminds me of home (in upstate New York). I love the little waterfall… over shale I’m guessing? Looks like our Finger Lakes ravines and glens– and nice misty mystery in the woods beyond!