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While thinking about this location, which is on the other side of the crown of the watershed from where I headed this morning, I was reminded of another location from three and a half years ago, which can be seen here. There are obviously a number of similar elements, but it was the Quicksand sign that really did it for me. It's not in view in this one above, but there was a sign at the edge of the frame seen in another exposure that didn't capture the overall view as well as the one that's been posted. I went for the better view of the two eras of architecture that stand buttt to butt across a diminishingly small "natural" area.

The quicksand warning has got to be someone's wry idea of a joke. Does anyone really believe such a thing exists - in Virginia? Yet another illusion manufactured by the image makers in Hollywood, that has become embedded in the popular culture. Some more vernacular, in the imagination.