Blue Ridge Parkway: The Beginning

We were up in the Charlottesville area this weekend.  Today, we came back by way of the first hundred miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway (Yesterday, we spent the early evening on Skyline Drive (That will maybe end up as another blog post - if I get around to it.).). [Enough periods?].[Just for good measure.]

We don't get up to this end of the Parkway often. 

Here are some of my favorite photos:

Asters

Milkweed bugs on milkweed

Fields

Thistles

 

I love milkweed pods and seeds.

The pedestrian bridge is suspended under the Parkway bridge over the James River.

View of the James River from the pedestrian bridge

 Goldenrod and a view

Peaks of Otter

Yellow wingstem and white snakeroot

View across the pond the other way

Snakeroot

Wingstem

Comments

[Moominpapa]

Sigh. I'm SO looking forward to the Oct Trip.

My favorite in these is the last one. I love the combination of sunlit meadow behind and the shadowed wingstem in front.