Yesterday I needed to get out of the house after the last eye surgery. I feel like my new eyes are a miracle and so I took some photographs on the Parkway. It is a gift to be able to see to write, photograph and paint again. It makes me cry with relief.
So, dear friends and readers, yesterday was a partly sunny day with temperatures in the high 50’s. It was a perfect day to drive in the mountains and revel in what Divinity has wrought.
When I put a camera up to my eye, I see more than I was seeing before. I have been with non-photographers who were amazed at my photographs because having been with me they didn’t see until what I saw through the lens until they saw the photographs. I think, for me anyway, that my heart and soul see through the camera. They see what is really there. When I began to take pictures, I wanted to prove to myself that this life was real. It wasn’t a dream. I was, by extension, also real. Enough of that, please enjoy the photographs.
Around every curve and hill is more beauty to thrill the soul. Photograph and copyright by Barbara Mattio, 2016
Every day there is more green on the trees. Photograph and copyright by Barbara Mattio, 2016
The Blue Ridge Parkway goes from Virginia, North Carolina and into Tennessee. Photograph and copyright by Barbara Mattio, 2016
Woodworking on the Parkway. Photograph and copyright by Barbara Mattio, 2016
This is not an autumn photograph. It is new leaves coming out on the branches. Photograph and copyright by Barbara Mattio, 2016
Wildflowers. Photograph and copyright by Barbara Mattio, 201
Have you hugged a tree lately? Photograph and copyright by Barbara Mattio, 2016
The Blue Ridge Mountains never stop being a thrill. Photograph and copyright by Barbara Mattio, 2016
Carolina Blue sky amongst the trees. Photograph and copyright by Barbara Mattio, 2016
The mountain air is as sweet to the lungs as the mountains are to the eyes. Photograph and copyright by Barbara Mattio, 2016
Flowers in bloom on trees. Photograph and copyright by Barbara Mattio, 2016
Simple beauty. Photograph and copyright by Barbara Mattio 2016
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Beautiful pictures, I am glad that yours eyes are doing better.
I am thrilled that they are better. Life is too beautiful to miss any of it. Hugs, Barbara
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Reblogging this these beautiful pictures of a part of our country that I am from myself.
Thank you so much. Hugs, Barbara
I was thinking of the Blue Ridge Trail recently. I’m going to VA, and we’re visiting the coast, but not the BRT, and I feel so sad about that. I have such fond memories of its beauty. Thanks for the photos.
Oh thanks. I hope you have a wonderful time. Take some photos for us! 🙂 Hugs, Barbara
Will surely take lots of photos. 🙂 Hugs
a beautiful collection of photos
Thank you so much. I am so delighted that my eyes are so much better now. Hugs, Barbara
Mother nature is so generous with beauty and that’s so evident in these photographs of yours, Barbara – am so very glad your vision, your eyes are now where they should be – great stuff. Hugs my friend ❤
Hugs to you Ina. I am so delighted to have my full vision back again. Blessings, Barbara