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Fred First is a writer, teacher, physical therapist and photographer enjoying semi-retirement in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. He writes daily to his blog, Fragments from Floyd, and his "memoir of landscape", Slow Road Home, is available at Amazon.com. He is currently working on a second book of photography, nature and the rekindling of native curiosity for growing and grown-up children.

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Parkway Cards : This set of five cards (4.5 x 6.25) and envelopes is available for purchase at Bells Gallery in downtown Floyd, VA.

This set of five cards (4.5 x 6.25) and envelopes is available for pur ...

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With the rains that fell for 4 of our 5 days in Dakota, the little stream is flowing below, and the nearby vegetation lends a dash of color other than red-brown-gray-tan to the landscape. And those interesting clouds certainly lent a nice touch to the few photos of the day.

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The weathered lines of a northeastern Floyd County barn recalls an earlier, simpler time

Parkway Skyline ~ Fall colors along the Parkway are dazzling from Saddle Gap in Floyd County

Gold sun fires copper and brass in an oak forest on an early autumn morning along Nameless Creek

Last Leaves of Autumn ~ on a windswept oak near the summit of a Floyd County ridge along the Blue Ridge Parkway.

...I love this place, so constant, so fully known and at hand, this place: this room, this house, this valley, these mountains, this time in our lives. We can’t know what’s coming around the bend in the road. But it has been a very nice road, that’s for sure. — from Slow Road Home / Fred First

On our crooked roads in Floyd County, the getting there is half the joy of being there

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Along a Floyd County road that I swear, only sees two vehicles pass about every two weeks, and they showed up just for me, to add interest to the background. The wind was blowing crazy the day I took this image, and a storm loomed--giving a nice, flat lighting in the middle of the afternoon. / Fred First / Floyd County, VA

Barefoot and coatless, Abby insisted on seeing the ice from the front porch.

What! Some empty space on the dance floor! Hardly ever happens.

This is boring. I'm going to find something rotten to roll in.

Most of Floyd County's cold, clear creeks wind their way to the Gulf of Mexico, but Goose Creek is bound for the Roanoke River and a sandy beach on the Atlantic coast

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