Paradise

This is Back Creek, just south of beautiful Mountain Grove, Virginia. We usually drive up Route 42, along the Cowpasture River to Millboro, and then take Route 39 west. The drive is gorgeous and takes about an hour from Clifton Forge.

I shot this last Thursday, balancing on a rock just below the ford on my parent's farm. The following is from the same location, only taken by my beloved and looking downstream.
My sister and I spent a lot of our childhood splashing around in that creek, in the swimming hole on the Ryder farm, a couple of miles upstream, here in the ford, and further downstream at the Landes Hole, where our Grandaddy Mike would take us on lazy summer days. I think our parents may have even taken us even further downstream, to the Piet Hole, but I could be wrong. Carolina and I have gone swimming there and in early summer there are parts that are over our heads today.