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"It is a beautiful book with gorgeous color pictures. Text boxes detailing a particular subject such as rhododendrons or Daniel Boone are sprinkled throughout. But why did they have to use black text on a dark purple background for these boxes? They are so difficult to read. Except for that shortcoming, this book is meant to be used, not to be left on the bookshelf. I take my copy wherever I think I am going to be on the Parkway. As for the answers to the questions above? Check pages 120, 129 and 108, respectively."

I couldn't agree more...


 

Today for lunch I joined a friend I've never met. We walked along a creek with no name under hemlocks in a valley I've never seen. We passed a barn I've only envisioned in painted light upon my screen. The sun I couldn't see glistened on grasses in the field to dry the dew I did not feel. I wasn't there, and yet I was, visiting with Fred on Goose Creek in the mountains of Floyd County.

I'll go there again tomorrow for lunch as I revisit a "Slow Road Home". Won't you come along? We'll visit Anns Falls, we'll sit a spell under the white pines, we'll wave at the neighbors from the front porch. We'll while away the time as we discuss the important issues of the day, the bumblebees at play, and the hawks upon the wing. We can discuss anything at all as we visit there on the creek with no name along that "Slow Road Home".

The Northern Mountain Region of Virginia

The Northern Mountain Region of Virginia is also know as the Shenandoah Valley Region in many guidebooks. The two mountain ranges that make up this region are divided by the great valley of the Shenandoah. To the west are the Allegheny Mountains and on the east are the Blue Ridge Mountains. Between them is Virginia’s premiere  agricultural heritage region.

The Shenandoah Valley begins in the north near Winchester. Its southern boundary is sometimes described as “just south of Lexington.” According to the state’s tourism map, the Shenandoah Valley continues all the way south to Roanoke and Salem and is overlapped by the Roanoke Valley.

The Shenandoah Valley is clearly defined, however, to the east and west. The ragged peaks of the Allegheny Mountain range lie to the west. Forty miles to the east are the rounded peaks of the old, eroded Blue Ridge range. Both mountain ranges are visible on a drive through the Shenandoah Valley or on a float down one of its rivers.

The Shenandoah Valley was known as the Breadbasket of the Confederacy during the Civil War. As a result, General Sheridan’s Union troops destroyed homes, barns, livestock, corn cribs, and crops on the valley’s largest farms. Scores of bloody battles were fought up and down the length of this fertile land.

via Sherpa Guides | Virginia | Mountains | Valley & Ridge III | Shenandoah Valley.

The fourteen counties that make up the  Northern Mountain Region are (in a more or less north to south list):

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By Gary Boyd

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