The Blue Ridge Parkway is nearly 500 miles long and connects Shenandoah NP to The Great Smoky Mountain NP.

I started on the AT along the parkway today.

Found some remains of former inhabitants

A house foundation with fireplace

A graveyard with 12 unmarked stones

One did have this scratched on the stone (M C Lowe)

Not sure if the date 1866 is birth date or date of death?? Maybe civil war casualties?

On a brighter note

Found a lucky chestnut

A nice shelter

See a face in this tree trunk?

Heading south,

Junco