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West Virginia: New River Gorge Preserve

Hello, hello. So, yeah, the vacay got busy, which made it fun. Sadly, it’s over and I am now home again and it’s back to the grind stone, or will be as soon as I get sorted out. You know how it goes.

I took a lot of photos the second week and was whining to myself about getting them copied from Instagram to here, but it turns out I can just embed them. Yeehaw! Not only saves time, but storage space, as I am approaching my limit – again – and this time just resizing won’t do anything since I already resized everything before.

Anyway, I figured that waiting until November to go to West Virginia would mean I missed all the fall colors (they were gone here, already), but it did not! In fact, it seems like I was just in time for a lot of it. So, be warned, lots of pics of fall colors.

I was originally going to put them all in one post, but I guess it’s too many, so I’m breaking it up. If the embedding works, you should be able to click the little arrows for a slideshow on each embedded image.

If it works.

First, we have some random photos of West Virginia roads. These are all in the Beckley area and/or New River Gorge Preserve.

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The New River Gorge Preserve is HUGE. Look it up on google maps. It’s also gorgeous. Apparently the river was too rocky and wild for early settlers to do anything with, so it was mostly left alone. Or something like that. It’s smack dab in…um, is it the Appalachian Mountains, or is it something else? I did a quick google, but couldn’t find it, so I’m going to call them super big hills for right now. Feel free to correct me in the comments.

Anyway, here we walked down to a little beach area. I’d like to think I took a photo of a sign or something so I could tell you what little area, but if I did, I haven’t copied it off yet (plus, I admit, my instagram postings are a little muddled because of their ten photo limits). It’s labeled as being the bridge, but you can see it isn’t…

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There are a few more of that little beach area (including a coupe of repeats – sorry), and some more of an area up the road from it. Still not at the bridge, despite Instagram’s tagging.

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More of the little beach and the river view from it – and though it’s tagged as the New Gorge River Bridge, it still isn’t. There’s a shot of some very interesting grass we found growing along the river – it’s triangle shaped! However, we were assured by a local that it is just boring old “river grass”. Yeah, I still thought it was pretty cool.

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Okay, more tomorrow. Have an awesome triangle grass kinda day!

Jo 🙂

August 5, 2012

Photo(s) of the Day – Week 32

I’ve been taking a photo a day since December 9th and uploading it to facebook – then I ran into a cool blog where they take a photo a day and post the photos in a weekly blog. So I thought, hey, I should steal that idea (before they pass a law to make that illegal too!).

I’m only a little behind. Yay!

For some reason my Retro Camera app is not working right – it won’t focus 😦 So I have switched to the One Man with Camera app – mainly the Holga (which cost $.99) as it has the square photos like retro camera does.

: July 22 – tile floor

: July 23 – cookies n cream frap – yumminess

: July 24 – moon pie in the dark

: July 25 – new watch – yay!

: july 26 – the world’s cutest wax burner (these things work pretty good, though the scent selection is not as large as the oil burners at walmart)

: Jul 28 – cool ring – the photo does not do it justice as the stones have yellow highlights in them… love it!

Song playing at the moment – Rasmus – Madness

August 4, 2012

Photo(s) of the Day – Week 31

I’m only a little behind – yay!

: Jul 16 – tick tick tick….

: July 17 – I’ve found what is eating my baby tree

: July 18 – my yard is dying

: July 19 – guess who!

Yeah, I missed three days :p

Song playing at the moment – Liquid – Rasmus

July 22, 2012

Photo(s) of the Day – Week 30

I’m behind again. It’s so sad to see how behind I get!

For some reason my Retro Camera app is not working right – it won;t focus 😦 So I have switched to the One Man with Camera app – mainly the Holga (which cost $.99) as it has the square photos like retro camera does.