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Autumn Roads

Author: From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Oct 24th, 2009
   Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local
"No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face"
John Donne

Autumn is in full swing here in Virginia. I made a conscious effort to stay off the main roads this week so I could take it all in. I also took a moment for a stroll through a forest and across a field...

Starting Close to Home

River Road at Falmouth Bottom. The bridge is Rt. 1 going over the Rappahannock into Fredericksburg heading from left to right. River Road, after crossing under the bridge, travels along the Rappahannock and intersects with Rt. 3 and then across the Chatham bridge into Old Town Fredericksburg. While this looks to be a quaint rural scene one has only to continue back up to Rt. 1 to behold one of the most congested intersections in the region--Rts 1 and 17.


Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2009-10-24 21:37:00

Author: From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Oct 24th, 2009
   Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local
We Aim to Please
Some have expressed a wish to see more people in my photos. Can't explain it, but I don't like people in my photos. Well, not wishing to disappoint I thought I would start off small and work my way up to people. So here is a cat in a window.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2009-10-24 21:28:00

Author: From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Oct 24th, 2009
   Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local
We Have Come A Long Way
Off of Mine Run Road in Orange County. This piece of farm equipment has become a lawn ornament. However, it is not uncommon to see older pieces of farm equipment still in use having been passed from one generation to the next. If it runs it is still used.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2009-10-24 21:22:00

Author: From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Oct 24th, 2009
   Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local
God's Country
A view off of Marquis Road in Louisa County. It is scenes like this that make me forget the hot and sticky Virginia summers and the cold, damp and rainy winters to come.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2009-10-24 21:13:00

Author: From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Oct 24th, 2009
   Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local
Enjoy It While You Can
Spotswood Furnace Road, Spotsylvania. A large section of Spotswood Furnace Road is unpaved and has no significant development along it. Spotsylvania is part of the 4th largest and fastest growing regions in Virginia. Don't know how much longer you will be able to enjoy scenes like this one. I'm going to have to go back and check our Constrained Long Range Regional Transportation Plan to make sure this road is not scheduled for paving anytime soon.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2009-10-24 21:06:00

Author: From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Oct 24th, 2009
   Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local
Beats the Hell Out of I-95
A typical section of Elys Ford Road in Spotsylvania. During the Civil War this road which leads to Elys Ford, along with the roads coming off of U.S., Banks, and Kelly's Ford were major routes of advance for the Union Army of the Potomac. Needless to say the view beats anything you would see on the interstate.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2009-10-24 20:56:00

Author: From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Oct 24th, 2009
   Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local
A Trek Through the Woods
Elys Ford, Spotsylvania. Before crossing the Rapidan River into Culpeper County I took the opportunity to pull off at a boat ramp and took a stroll on a path beside the river. I wish I had brought my digital recorder with me. This scene needs the sounds of the birds and wind through the trees to do it justice.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2009-10-24 20:50:00

Author: From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Oct 24th, 2009
   Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local
At the End of the Trail
Coming to an opening along the trail I slid down the bank to view the Rapidan River and the fall foliage.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2009-10-24 20:44:00

Author: From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Oct 24th, 2009
   Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local
Another Story to Be Told......
Off of Elys Ford Road in Spotsylvania--

"But I weary for you at morn and eve, O, children of my love,
Come back to me from your pilgrim ways, from the seas and plains ye rove,
Come over the meadows and up the lane to my door set open wide,
And sit ye down where the red light shines from my welcoming fireside.

I keep for you all your childhood dreams, your gladness and delights,
The joy of days in the sun and rain, the sleep of carefree nights,
All the sweet faiths ye have lost and sought again shall be your own,
Darlings, come to my empty heart¬ I am old and still and alone! "

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2009-10-24 20:35:00

Author: From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Oct 24th, 2009
   Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local
A Quiet Field at Dawn
The Pierson Farm outside of Fredericksburg. On December 13, 1862 at this time of the morning Union troops were eating breakfast and getting their equipment together. Later in the day they would cross this field to attack Confederate positions located along the tree line in the background. By the end of the day 9,000 men on both sides were killed or wounded and this site became known as the Slaughter Pen Farm--

"Stretcher bearers followed behind to gather the wounded while the lines closed mechanically, filling holes left by fallen soldiers and striding ahead. The Northern ranks dressed snugly shoulder to shoulder , making an impenetrable wall of blue coats. A hare , frightened from its warren, dashed frantically up and down the line before it made its escape."

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