Fall is Falling

Last weekend we decided to take a drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway to take a closer look at all of the changing colors. Man O Man was it beautiful!!! Growing up in Fresno my Nana and Papa used to take me to Woodward Park each year to look at the leaves. (woohoo!) I liked it but always thought it was funny that you had to go to a specific place to see them, like seasonal decorations. When Andrew and I moved to Iowa we were blown away by how much more color there was in the fall. Bright red's and golden yellows were everywhere. Then we moved to North Carolina and the Blue Ridge Mountains are blowing everything else away!

The colors themselves are highlighted by the sheer size of these mountains. Our elevation here is slightly lower than Shaver Lake's, but the mountain ridges go on and on and on. Everything seems wider and grander. Here are the boys with the Thunderhill Overlook behind them. It seems so vast but manages to be so peaceful too.

Jonah is into climbing now, and being as how we were on a mountain, he was able to find some really great rocks to crawl on. I found some really cool trees. (Aren't they kind of artsy? I don't know. I just really liked them.)

The coolest part about our little jaunt that day was that it was only about 10 minutes from our house. No packing up the car. No day trip. Just a ten minute drive, for the heck of it. Crazy that this is our reality now.