A cool rural find. The sort of thing you run across now and then. This one is in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, pretty far south from Mr. B.’s godfather’s Reveille Vineyards which is closer to New Market. Here spanning the Maury River in Rockbridge Baths.
Via Old Virginia Blog.
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Relatives in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia still have power, fortunately, so we’ve been exchanging email. Also managed to watch one of their television stations, WDBJ-7, on the Web. Their chief meteorologist lives in nearby Fincastle, another town we have an attachment to, and he showed pictures of that little place buried under more than a foot of snow.
Less luck in finding any news on Quicksburg in the Shenandoah Valley where friends live, but they seldom do email and we haven’t tried a landline call yet. Fortunately, the storm is pretty much following Accuweather’s Friday forecast and gradually moving off to the northeast to batter the major cities of the East Coast.
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Mr. Boy enjoyed the Virginia interlude, getting to help drive a tractor at his godfather’s Shenandoah Valley vineyard and see the house parrot while maintaining a respectful distance from her curved and pointed beak. Then he got to spend a few days with his older and younger cousins from California and Mississippi who converged on Roanoke’s grandest hotel for my niece’s wedding, a get together of more than 250 relatives, friends and other guests from around the country.
He was quite good despite long hours in cars and on planes. For the latter he enjoyed the view out the window at eight miles high, remarking on the flight up there: "Mom, we’re above the Earth!"
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Rain is coming down hard at times at the Rancho with already four inches in some spots across the city, and a flash flood warning and a tornado watch until 2 p.m. It’s ponding on the walks in the back yard. Mark Murray, KVUE meteorologist, says in today’s paper that this is "a typical El Nino autumn weather pattern" and the radar shows plenty of yellow and some red, the colors of storm intensity. After more than a year of drought we can sure use the rain. But I am reminded of the rain in the Shenandoah Valley last week, which was steady instead of coming in bursts like our climate gets. I heard the valley’s apple crop was losing out this year to Japan, free trade the old timers could not have imagined.
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