#virginia hill

[swirlingyouintomypoems]

it’s me. hi. i’m the problem. it’s me.

@padfoot-lupin77/@ryebreadgf/why am i like this? - orla gartland/the letters of virginia woolf/@dreamer-but-realist/anti-hero - taylor swift/sylvia plath/@jaggedjawjosh /@body-to-flame/making the bed - olivia rodrigo/anti-hero - taylor swift

[vandaliatraveler]

Spring in the Cheat River Canyon.

From top: lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium pallidum); the pendulous green flowers of striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum); sweet white violet (Viola blanda), which loves cool, moist forests; wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana), which has been hybridized with a South American species to produce commercial strawberries; marsh blue violet (Viola cucullata), an elegant, gregarious violet found growing in seeps and along streambanks; smooth Solomon's seal (Polygonatum biflorum); great white trillium (Trillium grandiflorum); a West Virginia white (Pieris virginiensis) sipping nectar from a sweet white violet; and broadleaf toothwort (Cardamine diphylla), the larval host plant for the West Virginia white.

Note: this hauntingly beautiful butterfly, a flitting ghost in Appalachia's April forests, is in serious decline because it confuses invasive garlic mustard for its host plant, Cardamine. Garlic mustard is toxic to its larvae. Another example of how an invasive species can wreak havoc on the vital lifecycles of our native ecosystems.

[unteriors]

Summerlee Avenue, Oak Hill, West Virginia.

[righthandedleftturn]

Women of Farscape

[morningcallsphotography]

Snake Hill Trail Morgantown, West Virginia ©morningcallsphotography

[crunkmouse]

Happy 25th anniversary to The Haunting ‘99!

[federer7]

Coal miner, his wife and two of their children (note child's legs).  Bertha Hill, West Virginia. 1938

Photo: Marion Post Wolcott

[gardening-guy]

oregon hill neighborhood / richmond, va 📸

i used to regularly walk through this neighborhood to get to my roommate and i's shared car, so i have so many gorgeous photos of this area! i need to get back into my regular walks, so eventually i shall return to my old schedule!

click for better quality!!

[citizenscreen]

The original Broadway production of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opened on October 13, 1962. The cast included Uta Hagen as Martha, Arthur Hill as George, Melinda Dillon as Honey and George Grizzard as Nick.

[vandaliatraveler]

Yet more gifts of Appalachian summer.

I've been on a mission to catalogue as many of Central Appalachia's summer wildflowers and berries as possible for an online project I'm starting up. Above is the haul from yesterday, including the stunning orange-fringed orchid (Platanthera ciliaris), a grand summer orchid of Appalachia's wet seeps and meadows. Downy rattlesnake plantain (Goodyera pubescens), another of our summer-blooming orchids, may not be quite as showy, but its intricately-patterned leaves are quite striking. Turk's-cap lily (Lilium superbum) is also in bloom in our local wet meadows and swamps. It's distinguished from its close cousin Canada lily by more strongly recurved petals and a green, star-like pattern in the center of its flowers. A single Turk's cap lily can produce dozens of flowers from its rangy stems. At home in moist woodland edges and streambanks, summer phlox (Phlox paniculata), sometimes also referred to as fall phlox and garden phlox, produces loads of gorgeous pink or white flowers from mid-July through September. Because this phlox is commonly planted in gardens nowadays, it's hard to know if plants in the wild are true natives or escapees.

[dykemarcille]

listen jeff davis knows and morganreid isn’t cooking without gas. Now unfortunately after some research I’ve found fans are all so annoying & stupid god bless

[unteriors]

Calvary Road, Rose Hill, Virginia.

[brawnie]

Nothing will have me shaking in my boots like a strong older butch. Give me a woman who exclusively uses a flip phone and drives an old beat up pick up truck and never got a proper education so has been working construction jobs for forty years and I will show you me, melting into a puddle of goo and unable to speak

[morningcallsphotography]

Snake Hill Trail Morgantown, West Virginia ©morningcallsphotography

[bellasartweird]

Longing for a deep, poetic love