This pretty scene is of the Clinch River, taken from the Swinging Bridge near Clinchport. If you've read the post about Cait and I crossing this bridge, you've seen the view from the other direction. To be perfectly honest, I don't know if this is upriver or downriver. And, shoot, Tom's already gone to bed..... I still have a lot to learn about my new home.
This is Bush Mill, located on Twin Springs Road, outside of Nickelsville. I should know more about it than I do, and I'll try to find out a little more, and post some details. But right now I'm just posting pretty pictures, and had to include this one.
This is a shot of Copper Creek, about a mile from our house. We often see people fishing here, and great blue herons, too. I think the herons have better luck.
Get Tom near water, and you can bet, he's going in. Sometimes it's on purpose, and sometimes it's accidently on purpose. When I met him, oh so many years ago, he told me he was a mountain man. I believed him then......but now I know for sure.
Just about everywhere you go in Scott County, you'll see scenes like these.....mountains, trees, winding waters, and curvy roads. There are old barns; abandoned houses; and chimneys standing all alone in fields, where once firelight shone surrounded by a family, singing, reading the Bible, or rocking a cradle. The past is alive here. The mountains hold it close and keep it near. 
This picture and the one above show a small part of Tom's favorite view. It's at the top of Manville Road, a few miles up the mountain from our house. You can see the Clinch River and beside it, the Clinch River highway. If ever Tom goes missing, this is where I'll look for him first.
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