Sunlight shines through clouds, accentuating the bright green of trees. Clouds throw dark green shadows, creating drama in the picture. Storm clouds curve in a half circle above the wooded mountains. Wooden decking alternates between flat areas and stairs with the railing forming a zig zag across the lower left of the picture. A large solitary rock juts above the boardwalk. Evergreen trees are predominant at this elevation. Distant peaks of Hawksbill and Table Rock are faint on the horizon line of the picture. The light and shadow add to the drama in the picture.

Remembering summer storms
#Stunday

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The lower half of the picture is gray rock. The rock consists of fractured layers on the right side of the picture the layers angle upward in the middle of the picture. There’s a relatively flat outcropping and near left the rock layers almost seem to be sticking upward. The upper part of the picture is very blue with white clouds. Finley obscuring the sun and throwing deep dark shadow the rhododendron bushes in the last corner of the picture have leaves that are surprisingly rolled thin, even though the temperatures in the 60s. The bushes on the left are very windswept beyond the gray rock. You can see in the distance, the very gentle rise to the top of grandfather Mountain midway on the mountain the curve of the Linn Cove viaduct can be seen between dark green trees. Beyond grandfather Mountain can be seen to the left the unique peaks of the Jonas Ridge / Linville Gorge area, such as Hawks Bill and Table Rock. The center left of the picture shows in the distance, grandmother Mountain with its cell phone tower, and to the right of Grandmother, more mountains, extending in very light colored, rows of blue into the distance.

#Peaceful #atthetop #longrangeview #bluesky #BRP #RoughRidge #GrandfatherMountain #rock #mountain

The picture is taken from a gray rock ledge. A tall tower of stacked rock is in the right lower corner with low vegetation of wild flowers and small plants hiding part of it from sight. A deciduous tree extends higher than the rock in the foreground. A deciduous tree is wind blown in the left corner of the picture. The view falls away beyond the center of the picture with rolling green mountains, which have dark and light green areas from the clouds. Table rock and hawksbill from Linville Gorge can be recognized in the left distance. White clouds are low and flat against a deep blue sky.

#BlueskyMonday

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#MountainMonday #rock #RoughRidge #Tanawhatrail #BRP #BlueRidgeParkway

The image shows the deep greens of trees, sloping upward on grandfather Mountain across the width of the picture. On the mountain, the S shape of the Linn Cove Viaduct curves around the mountain. Medium grey to white rock is mounded in front of the viewer with green vegetation on either side, and the right corner is anchored with another large piece of rock. Gray clouds are in the upper portion of the picture with one white section slightly offset to the left of center. From this white section a segment of rainbow curves from the cloud to the ground. A fainter rainbow segment curves from the cloud to the ground to the left of the brighter rainbow.

Sunday Stunday.

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#BRP #BlueRidgeParkway #RoughRidge #TanawhaTrail #nature #rainbow #mountain #rock #LinnCoveViaduct #GrandfatherMountainStatePark

The left side and bottom of the photo image contain rocks at a slight diagonal upwards. Beyond these a row of jagged, Evergreen trees point to the sky. Between two sets of evergreen trees points, a rock emerging from the greenery by itself at the same angle as the rest of the rocks in the picture. And evergreen tree tops the picture and finishes out the left side. Wild blueberry bushes and other small vegetation are mixed on the left side of the picture in the distance. A gentle curve of grandfather Mountain rises center of picture to the right. Gray rock emerges in some spots with steep stone faces that defy vegetation. The top of the mountain is darker with Evergreen trees, while the lower slopes are covered with deciduous trees. An “s” shaped curve of the Linn Cove Viaduct of the Blue Ridge Parkway way can be seen snaking across the mountain. The sky is a deep midday blue with starkly white clouds, small and close to the mountain.

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The top rock on the left is the iconic Rough Ridge picture rock viewed from from the Tanawha trail right before the trails meet. Linn Cove Viaduct seen in the distance.