Recent outing to wonderful West Virginia

I like country road outings!  ...roads that wind, and twist about,...and I especially like to travel on mountain roads.  Recently, Daryl and I enjoyed such an outing to Black Water Falls, and Seneca Rocks in West Virginia.

A close up view of the black foamy water...







 

Getting to the falls from the parking lot was quite easy...venturing off the trail  strongly discouraged...

 

 

I also enjoyed viewing the Joe-Pye-Weed  in bloom at the time of our outing...

...if only I had a damp meadow to enjoy this butterfly magnet at home.



Our stop at Seneca Rocks...

No rock climbing on the day of our outing...but then it was a damp, off and on light rain kind of day... :)

The river at Seneca Rocks...

All in all it was a fun, but short outing.

 

 

 



A blue moon month

Wednesday evening, (August 1st), it was partly cloudy..overcast, and not as bright as it could have been, but there was a full moon...

...so what's the big deal!  There is one every 29 days...once a month. This month, however, there will be a second full moon occurring on August 31st.

When two full moons occur in a calendar month, the second full moon is called a "blue moon" ...thus the phrase, "once in a blue moon". A phrase that refers to occurrences that are uncommon, though not rare. The next time for two full moons to occur in a single month will be in 2015... July 1st and 31st.

Whenever I view the moon, I can't help but recall a rhyme from  my childhood...

"I see the moon, and the moon sees me. God bless the moon, and God bless me".