Sunset at Doughton Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway
Well I am not as good at this blogging thing as I had hoped. Sometimes I am busy out taking photos and sometimes its just hard to share my feelings.
In the last 2 weeks I have been out shooting in several location in NC, TN & VA. I have been waiting for fall since late spring and even though it has arrived, I have been somewhat blue and not really feeling the passion I usually have. I have been sick with an ulcer since the last week in August. Then as you know from reading previous posts, I lost my best little buddy Alex. Its very hard to come home from a photo trip and not hear his meow welcoming me home. I always listened for it and when He said Hi, I knew everything was ok.
But anyways. I am not shooting as good as I usually do and therefore not getting as many keepers that I am happy with, but I am trying to edit some photos to share on my website. There again, the passion is just not there at this time.
Two weeks ago I went to Doughton Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway to visit a ranger friend. Its always fun to go hang out with her, watch her work, spend time in the Brinegar Cabin learning lots and lots of history. I arrived during their Harvest Festival and decided to join in the fun and volunteer for a few hours. I have now learned how to make apple butter and then learned how families survived without all the things we take for granted these days. All in all, it was very informative and interesting. Fall was just starting to arrive and it was very interesting to watch each day as leaves went from green to red, orange or yellow. Nature is simply amazing if you take the time to sit and watch and breath it all in. We took a side trip one day to Old Salem and it was very interesting there again to see how everyone lived before electricity, microwaves, take out pizza and all the other comforts we cant live without today. Saw the bed George Washington slept in on an overnight visit thru Old Salem.
More recent, I just returned from a trip to the Parkway closer to home. Just outside Boone, you can visit Moses Cone Manor, Price Lake, Rough Ridge, The amazing Viaduct and Grandfather Mtn. The colors were really wonderful, but not yet peak in some areas and past peak in other areas. We met some very interesting people along the way as well.
Later this week I will be heading to Cataloochee and then around Brevard, NC. Next week will find me lost along the Skyline Drive in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley Parkway and then jumping on the Blue Ridge Parkway enjoying all the beautiful vistas and hoping to catch lots of deer, turkeys and maybe a bear or two as well as a sunset and sunrise.
stay tuned for more fun.OH yea, gas prices here in East TN are falling too thank goodness. down to $2.74
