Indigo & Lavender

Indigo and lavender creates the Blue Ridge Parkway Virginia North Carolina Appalachian Mountains USA Blue Ridge Mountain indigo silhouette and morning mist lavender tradition — because the Blue Ridge Parkway (Blue Ridge Parkway, Appalachian Mountains, Virginia to North Carolina, USA — the most specifically Blue-Ridge-Parkway-Virginia-North-Carolina-Appalachian-Mountains-USA and the most broadly internationally-Blue-Ridge-Parkway-recognized, the 755 km (469 mi) scenic road along the Blue Ridge Mountains from Shenandoah National Park, Virginia to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina, completed 1939–1966, America's most visited national park unit with 15 million visitors annually — the most specifically Blue-Ridge-Parkway-indigo-and-lavender and the most broadly internationally-Blue-Ridge-Parkway-recognized warm-cool) creates the most specifically Blue-Ridge-Parkway-Blue-Ridge-Mountains-indigo-silhouette-and-morning-mist-lavender and the most precisely Virginia-North-Carolina-Appalachian-Mountains-USA warm-cool through the combination of the indigo of the Blue Ridge Mountain silhouette (the most specifically Blue-Ridge-Mountains-indigo-silhouette and the most precisely Blue-Ridge-Parkway-Virginia-indigo cool — the deep indigo of the layered Blue Ridge Mountain silhouettes in the distance, caused by isoprene (terpene) vapors emitted by the dense forest (particularly Quercus / oak and Pinus / pine) scattering blue-indigo light — hence the 'Blue' in Blue Ridge — the most specifically Blue-Ridge-Mountains-indigo and the most broadly internationally-Blue-Ridge-Parkway-recognized cool) and the lavender of the morning mist (the most specifically Blue-Ridge-Parkway-morning-mist-lavender and the most precisely Appalachian-Mountains-morning-mist-lavender — the soft lavender of the early morning fog and mist in the Appalachian valleys, seen from the Blue Ridge Parkway overlooks, a pale violet-lavender from the scattering of morning light in the humid mountain air — the most specifically Blue-Ridge-morning-mist-lavender and the most broadly internationally-Blue-Ridge-Parkway-recognized warm).

The Shenandoah National Park tradition (Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, USA — the most specifically Shenandoah-National-Park-Virginia-USA-officially and the most broadly internationally-Shenandoah-recognized, the northern terminus of the Blue Ridge Parkway at Rockfish Gap — the most specifically Shenandoah-indigo-and-lavender and the most broadly internationally-Shenandoah-recognized warm-cool) creates the indigo-and-lavender warm-cool at the most specifically Shenandoah-National-Park-Virginia-USA and the most broadly internationally-Shenandoah warm-cool scale.

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park UNESCO 1983 tradition (Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee and North Carolina, USA — UNESCO World Heritage 1983 — the most specifically Great-Smoky-Mountains-National-Park-Tennessee-North-Carolina-USA-UNESCO-1983-officially and the most broadly internationally-Great-Smoky-Mountains-recognized, the southern terminus of the Blue Ridge Parkway — the most specifically Great-Smoky-indigo-and-lavender and the most broadly internationally-Great-Smoky-Mountains-recognized warm-cool) creates the indigo-and-lavender warm-cool at the most specifically Great-Smoky-Mountains-National-Park-Tennessee-North-Carolina-UNESCO-1983 and the most broadly internationally-Great-Smoky warm-cool scale.