Holy crap! I just found out that the submit@picturewestvirginia.com email address wasn’t forwarding right and I missed a few posts! Sorry, guys — poorly done. So this week, in addition to the ‘Structures’ theme, I’m going to catch up on the posts from Weeks 1 and 2 that I missed. I’ve got it all sorted now, so it won’t happen again.

Post by: MoneyTastesBad
Town: Morgantown
Website: The 30-Year-Old Freshman

Last summer, my wife, daughter and I went on vacation to Cape Cod and Maine. We saw some beautiful sites. Nantucket Island, the sunset at Race Point which is the very end of the Cape. We walked on the National seashore. Bar Harbor and the rocky coasts and light houses of Maine, Acadia National Park, Cadillac Mountain. But nothing was as beautiful as the vision of heaven we saw when we came back home. These pictures were taken from the car on I-68 shortly after crossing into WV. Although we were in Preston County, I consider that to be part of the Greater Morgantown Metropolitan Area. And I consider Morgantown my home town.

Thanks to everyone who’s stopped by Picture West Virginia in the first couple of weeks. I’m hoping the following weeks see a little more participation, so if you have any interest in playing along, week three is a good time to start. The topic is “Structures.” Even if you don’t feel like participating, I’d appreciate it if you’d spread the word to anybody you know who might be interested.

If anyone has questions about PWV, feel free to email me at bryan@picturewestvirginia.com.

Post by: Bryan Stealey
Town: Morgantown
Website: Reversing the Numbness

They keep changing our landscape, to put more change in their pockets. Something’s got to change. I think we’ll have to change first.

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My friend Becky Kimmons sings (beautifully) in an a capella group now called BareBones, but formerly known as Missing Person Soup Kitchen Gospel Quartet. (There are only three members. Get it?) She gave me permission to use this amazing recording of “The West Virginia Hills,” off their Stirring It Up album. The photos are used with permission by Vivian Stockman of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, a group out of Huntington intent on stopping mountain-top removal. Thanks very much to both Becky and Vivian for allowing me to use these materials for this little slideshow. I’m no filmmaker, but I don’t think the stark contrast between this beautiful song and these haunting images needs much work on my part anyway.