Sense of Place

Southern Appalachian Highlands

Includes photographs from North Carolina & Virginia

Jump to: Arts & Crafts, Food & Wine, Landscapes, Museums, Historic Sites, & Architecture, Plants, Animals, Fungi, & Geology.

Southern Appalachian Highlands Arts & Crafts (July 2025)

Blowing Rock NC BRAHM art and history museum Mary Lou Higgins Sibylline Faces (ceramics)
Blowing Rock NC Rumple Memorial Presbyterian Church Ben Long Frescoes
Roanoke VA Taubman Art Museum Ralph Blakelock Solitude (tonalist painting)
Roanoke VA Taubman Art Museum sculpture made from Rosa Portuguese Marble

Southern Appalachian Highlands Food & Wine (July 2025)

Raphine VA Rockbridge Vineyard grapevines
Blowing Rock NC fudge
Boone NC Mast General Store
Goodview VA Fables and Feathers winery
Goodview VA Fables and Feathers winery
Hot Springs VA Omni Homestead Resort wine tasting
Raphine VA Rockbridge Vineyard
Raphine VA Rockbridge Vineyard grapevines

Southern Appalachian Highlands Landscapes (July 2025)

Blowing Rock NC mountain rain
Blowing Rock NC sunset views
Blowing Rock NC sunset views
Boone NC
NC the Blowing Rock
NC the Blowing Rock
NC the Blowing Rock
NC the Blowing Rock
Raphine VA McCormick Mills millpond
Raphine VA Rockbridge Vineyard

Southern Appalachian Highlands Museums, Historic Sites, & Architecture (July 2025)

Roanoke VA Hancock Building b1898 with 1929 mosaic terracotta Art Deco facade
Roanoke VA Museum of Transportation
Blue Ridge Pkwy NC Moses Cone Manor
Blue Ridge Pkwy NC Moses Cone Manor
Blue Ridge Pkwy NC Moses Cone Manor apple drawings
Blue Ridge Pkwy NC Moses Cone Manor apple house
Blue Ridge Pkwy NC Moses Cone Manor window
Lexington VA Thomas Stonewall Jackson home
Peaks of Otter VA Polly Woods Ordinary
Peaks of Otter VA Polly Woods Ordinary
Hot Springs VA Omni Homestead Resort
Hot Springs VA Omni Homestead Resort
Lexinton VA Washington & Lee University Lee Chapel
Lexinton VA Washington & Lee University Lee Chapel
Raphine VA McCormick Mills
Raphine VA McCormick Mills
Raphine VA McCormick Mills blacksmith shop
Raphine VA McCormick Mills home c1848
Raphine VA McCormick Mills overshot water wheel
Roanoke VA Higher Education Center Art Deco
Roanoke VA Higher Education Center Art Deco
Roanoke VA Higher Education Center Art Deco

Southern Appalachian Highlands Plants, Animals, Fungi, & Geology (July 2025)

Raphine VA McCormick Mills Lanternfly
Blue Ridge Pkwy NC Moses Cone Manor ghost pipe (Monotropa uniflora)
NC the Blowing Rock
NC the Blowing Rock Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor)
NC the Blowing Rock Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor)
NC the Blowing Rock Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor)
NC the Blowing Rock pyrophyllite
NC the Blowing Rock quartz
Raphine VA McCormick Mills bergamot
Raphine VA McCormick Mills chicken of the woods
Raphine VA McCormick Mills Kentucky Coffee Tree
Raphine VA McCormick Mills Kentucky Coffee Tree
Raphine VA McCormick Mills Kentucky Coffee Tree
Raphine VA McCormick Mills painted turtle
Raphine VA McCormick Mills potatovine