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Stony Point, Albemarle County. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.
Drove today along the Blue Ridge foothills from just below Dyke, Virginia, to a place in the South River basin of Greene County. Had to take a ‘road’ called Turkey Ridge. If two turkeys met there, I believe one would have to take flight to get by. I’m not sure these folks get UPS deliveries.
I started to wonder if I should have carried my chain saw, in case of fallen trees. Grateful to the moonshiners for letting me through their roadblocks. O.K., I’m kidding about the moonshiners. Or at least about them setting up roadblocks. But as I headed down some hairpin turns, I started singing “Thunder Road.”
Not Bruce Springsteen. Robert Mitchum.
G-men on his tail light
Roadblocks up ahead
The mountain boy took roads
That even angels fear to tread