View from my porch, looking west across the French Broad River.

Beautiful view.
Why are they called "blue ridge mountains"?

Great VIew.

Because the mountains sometimes have a blueish tint or haze to them.

Beautiful! Is that a redbud blooming?

Beautiful, sir.

That picture isn't showing the dang wind.......

I've seen on a hazy day they take on a bluish hue in the distance.

The shadow effects are blueish on any given day.

"Shaconage", Cherokee for, "the place of blue smoke".

Nice👍

Springtime view in Montana…

Love the mountains and open land here in Oregon.. ( not the politics tho ! ) but there are plenty of times I miss home, Southwestern VA and SE West Virginia... but how much the population has increased in my life time, I don't care for that very much at all.

And if you want to go strictly scientific, it's isoprene molecules emitted from certain oak and poplar species that filter light to our eyes as blue in color.

Beautiful view

We were in that general area last spring and it is very very nice.

Beautiful!!
Can't imagine living anywhere else!

I'll be crossing the FBR maybe 50-60 miles north of there in a couple of hours.

Beautiful view.

You have more green showing that we do. We're still have some snow up in the woods and we're supposed to get some more tonight.

I do love the Blue Ridge Mountains of NC where we live.

StarchedCover

Probably would be nice if yer head wasn't in the way.

Maybe…

Very nice, I’m envious!

Yes those are redbuds blooming.

Nice view . Beautiful part of the country, I get down there a few times a year. In the Blue ridge myself but about 6 hours north. Pretty close to the midway point on Shenandoah national park.

Any morels down ur way yet?

Interesting. Liriodendron, or some other poplar?


That pic makes me think of turkeys and brook trout.

The one from Montana looks like a brown trout.

Lot of brook trout in those mountains.