October Sky, Kerr Lake, VA

I could write a post about how I camped at three different places on Kerr Lake in Virginia this month. I could write about the campgrounds and the facilities and how I kayaked right from my site. But honestly, when I reviewed the photos I took, it was all about the sky, sunrise, sunset, and moonrise. So this is a post of few words and many photos…

 

 

 

For about a week, this was my morning view when I opened up the window shade. Really can’t beat it and it made me smile every morning, whether it was a bit foggy or overcast or the promise of a cloudless, sunny day.

 

I joined a fellow Alto owner for a campfire my first night at North Bend and we enjoyed both a quiet orange sunset and a mellow moonrise from the same vantage point. Yet another reason I love North Bend.

Just an afternoon walk, taking shots from the roadway between two campground loops. The sky put on such a show, I found myself walking slower and slower just to see what the clouds would do next.

The next week, I stayed at Longwood Park, on the other side of Kerr Lake, where the site had a little beach perfectly suited for sunset viewing. This one lasted for all of five minutes, so I hustled from campsite down to beach just in time to catch the colors before they faded into darks and blacks.

Another spot in the campground had a different view, one that almost looked like a scene from a sci-fi movie, with the post-sunset clouds reflecting onto the water just that way.

Ah, Kerr Lake, you’re one place I absolutely hate to leave when my time is up. I’ll be back, though, that water is too hard to resist.

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Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there’s something good about feeling both.

Amy Grant