Pictures of the Week

[other dog]

Here's a blast from the past- that's me in the blue T shirt. The woman in the red top is holding my niece, and it's her first birthday...no, my niece's first birthday, not the woman in the red top. That's my daughter Karla with the juice box, and she's a grown ass woman now, like 40-ish, and the birthday niece has a child of her own and just turned 30. Time sure flies, eh?

This old gray haired fellow is the same guy in the blue T shirt in the first picture. This was taken yesterday.

OK, road picture-

This is a plane-

Persimmons, on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

I picked enough of them to make some persimmon bistits, they're great with some fried scrapple, but I wouldn't have picked them if i'd known you could buy this-

These were also taken on the parkway. When I picked Zina from Florida up in Roanoke we got on the parkway in Blue Ridge,Va. and ran it down to the Peaks of Otter, then took rt. 43 to Bedford and back to rt. 460. That's one section of the parkway i'd never been on before, and it was beautiful. Look to the left and you could see I-81, and beyond, to the right you could see rt.460, and beyond. This is a Western Express truck crossing the James River on I-81 at Buchanon.

This is looking down at Montvale on the other side-

We stopped at one of the overlooks on the parkway and I noticed this over in the woods.

It was a case of water by the Appalachian Trail. I guess just kind hearted people leave it there for hikers.

We stopped at the Peaks of Otter for a minute. I summited Sharp Top a few times, all without supplemental oxygen, when I was much younger.

Closer view of the summit-

I bought a couple of books of the Hurricane Camille flood photos from the Nelson County Historical Society and drove over to the museum Wednesday to get them, and I saw a picture similar to this in a scrapbook there. It wasn't that good a picture, but I found this better one on the inter-web machine. It shows a truck that was washed off the bridge over the Rockfish River on rt. 29 at  Woods Mill, Va. That is the back of the trailer in the picture. The truck had left Waynesboro,Va. and was headed to Gastonia, N.C.  I've also always heard that a truck was washed off the bridge that has never been found to this day.

I was stopped if a construction zone one day somewhere and noticed these monkey balls on the monkey ball bush.

And, I drove the old Dodge pickup home Friday. The right front tire has a slow leak in it, it'll leak down about 10 psi in a couple of months. So, I filled my air tank up to 120 psi and put it in the back, so I can pump that tire up when necessary for a long time. And wouldn't you know, I ran across this girl in Winfall with a flat tire. She flagged me down and asked if I could help with her tire. She said her valve core was loose in a tire and she had already tightened it, she just needed a little bit of air.

Of course I told her no, I might need that little bit of air myself. She looked a little pissed when I drove off, but what can you do?

 

 

[fuzzy buzzard]

Peaks of Otter - man, that brings back bad memories! Do you remember the earth quake around Smith Mountain winter '69-'70. I was on survey crew for Appalachian Power during that time. We were sent to that area to do a deformation survey to see if any movement occurred around Smith Mountain Dam. All work was done at night for better accuracy. There was a survey point on top of Peaks of Otter that I had the instrument set up on. Up there about 5 hours and colder than Mad Maxine Waters tit !!!! Ain't been back to that hill since.     

[carlotpilot]

time marches on od . I shudder every time i look in a mirror. some great pics though keep em comin

[mrsmackpaul]

6 hours ago, carlotpilot said:

time marches on od . I shudder every time i look in a mirror. some great pics though keep em comin

Yeah I  wonder who that strange bugger is looking back at me thru the window lol

 

Were do the years go ??

 

Paul 

[mowerman]

great photos as usuall..like the chick man,,,,and yes,,,we all wish we were 30 again...bob

[tjc transport]

not me..... if i was 30 again, then i would have to deal with the ex again. 

[mrsmackpaul]

1 hour ago, tjc transport said:

not me..... if i was 30 again, then i would have to deal with the ex again. 

Lucky you  wishing mine was my ex 

 

Paul

[Red Horse]

Actually don't you mean you wish it was 30 years ago?  If you were 30 today would you really want to face another 40-50 years of the horseshit we are seeing now?

I feel sorry for my grandkids