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Rockfish Gap, Virginia, February 2020

On a clear day, this view from the Blue Ridge Mountains is mesmerizing.  Rockfish Gap is on the border between Virginia’s Augusta and Nelson Counties, between Charlottesville and Waynesboro.

That third picture you see is the hill rising behind the viewing area off Interstate 64.  I included it because those trees look pleasingly creepy — like something out of the Haunted Forest in Disney’s “Snow White” (1937).

 

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Rockfish Gap, Virginia, June 2018.

Seen from the edge of Greenwood-Afton Rural Historic District.  (The gap’s 110 miles are the lowest passage through the Blue Ridge Mountains.)  Thomas Jefferson met with other officials at the nearby Rockfish Tavern in 1818 to plan the University of Virginia.

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