A Fall Day To Remember in the Blue Ridge Mountains

The Princess and I took Sunday for ourselves and went exploring, this time following the paths of the moonshiners in her most popular novel, "Cahas Mountain." She warned that my headlights and taillights might meet on some of the roads and she didn't exaggerate. When the road wasn't going straight up, it was often bending my VW frame.

But beautiful? Memorably beautiful. The light was perfect nearly all day and the leaves at the mountain base were at peak and they moved toward winter as we climbed the mountains.

We stopped at an abandoned home on the way up to take some atmospheric photos and they worked out very well (see next blog post).

Let me also mention American Pie, the little restaurant/bar just outside Floyd where we stopped briefly. Linda Kay had a piece of scrumptious homemade apple pie and I ate one of the best hamburgers/French fries I've had in memory. The burger was locally sourced, cooked to perfection (well done, but still juicy) and had fresh lettuce, tomatoes and red onions to dress it). I was happy with this.

We were both thrilled at this day and shared our joy at living in one of the very real garden spots on earth. Here is some more of what it looked like.