Some pix from along the Blue Ridge Parkway this past weekend.

[Lex]

Hope you enjoy them! This was around the Va/NC border of the Parkway.

[Heidi]

1. I'm lovin' those colors, Lex!

Beautiful, but now I'm homesick. x(

:hi:

[Lex]

3. Thanks Heidi. The camera doesn't do the colors justice.

I didn't know or remember that you're from these parts. :pals:

[Heidi]

10. Not from those parts specifically,

but I was born in Arkansas, raised in Oklahoma, and spent one very long and glorious summer in Kentucky when I was seven years old. And, as you know, I'm all about color. :D

Thank you for sharing these photos, gf. I miss ya. :hug:

[wildhorses]

2. very nice, thanks for sharing.

:hi:

[Lex]

6. Thank you, wildhorses.

It was a great weekend and the leaves were really putting on quite a show.

[Zomby Woof]

4. Was just there 2 weeks ago!

A little further south on the Parkway... just as stunningly beautiful just the same. :D :thumbsup:

Thanks for posting!

[Lex]

5. I do remember your beautiful pictures, ZombyWoof!

And I remember thinking that I'd be snapping some fall color pix soon too. :pals:

[catmandu57]

7. I love the second one

with the reflection on the water, I snagged it for my wallpaper folder.

[BarenakedLady]

8. Very pretty

Beautiful colors. I especially like the close up pumpkin one. Thanks for sharing.

[seemunkee]

9. Very nice

My wife and I went a few weeks ago but it was too early to see the leaves changing.

[chemenger]

11. I know where I'd love to be right now

and it's not here.

[Lex]

13. I hated to come back to work after being there

in the mountains for a few days.

Lots of local apples and pumpkins for sale everywhere. Air was crisp. Just beautiful.

:hi:

[rateyes]

12. Thank you for sharing those...

you made my day! That's the part of the country where I lived growing up and again after school for a few years....Living in Middle GA now, I DO MISS the fall colors of the Appalachian Mountains. I've driven the Parkway many times...Beautiful. Thanks again.

:yourock:

BTW, is that pond located on a golf course? Looks familiar.

[Lex]

21. Hi rateyes!

Nope, that pond isn't on a golf course. Must be another one you're thinking of! :hi:

[rateyes]

28. Yeah, it is...

After I thought about it some more, I realized the golf course wasn't on the Parkway...pretty close, though.

:hi:

[trof]

14. Damn. 'At's purty.

[Withywindle]

15. Oh wow...a gorgeous autumn taste of home for me.

Thank you!

(My dad was a ranger on the BRP for 25 years till he retired, based around Fancy Gap. My parents live around Milepost 207)

[Lex]

18. Ha! Small world.

My parents have a house off the BRP near Fancy Gap. Around MP 199.

:hi:

[Withywindle]

25. Small world! And very small town!

Heh, maybe your parents know mine.

I went to Fancy Gap Elementary School.

My dad was just at a fund-raising dinner for Rick Boucher in Hillsville a week or so ago.

:hi:

[rateyes]

30. As I told Lex...

I know Fancy Gap and Hillsville...My brother-in-law's father was a minister in Hillsville. Rick Boucher was my Rep. when I lived in a little town called Honaker.

[Lex]

35. It's a very nice place, Fancy Gap and surrounding areas.

My parents have a mountain house up in those parts but weren't raised there.

The people in the area are nice as can be. I've grown to really love Fancy Gap.

Nice to meet you! :hi:

[rateyes]

29. Oh, man...

Fancy Gap! I've been through there a hundred times on my way through Mt. Airy...Drive down the mountain instead of the Interstate. My two older daughters were born in Richlands, Virginia. You are making me homesick.

[Lex]

34. Hi rateyes!

Hwy 52 down the mountain to Mt. Airy--full of apples and pumpkins and mums this time of year in the open air markets.

It's grand there right now.

And Mt. Airy is sweet as can be too.

[rateyes]

36. Geez...

I'm going to have to take some vacation now. You're killing me with this stuff. I sure do miss those mountains!

:hi:

[rateyes]

37. I've spent the night near there in a motel...

on the Southbound side of the Interstate before getting to 52.

[NC_Nurse]

16. Beautiful!

Thanks so much for posting these. I haven't made it to the mountains this fall. :-(

[haf216]

17. Very nice.

I really miss Fall! I grew up in Ohio, but live in souther Louisiana now and really miss having four seasons!!!

[ComerPerro]

19. beautiful

[greatauntoftriplets]

20. Absolutely beautiful!!!

Thanks for posting.

[OzarkDem]

22. Thank you! Beautiful

Must have been a great trip!

[photogirl12]

23. Wow!!!

Nice photos!!

[Haole Girl]

24. Those are beautiful

I love the late afternoon shadows...it really reminds me how quickly the seasons change.

[Road Scholar]

26. Wow! Those are fantastic! You must have a wonderful

father.
:hi: :hi: :hi: :yourock: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :popcorn: :popcorn: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Lex]

33. Yeah, I do!

Hi Dad! :hi:

[atomic-fly]

27. very nice pics...nt

[ScreamingMeemie]

31. Oh man...I miss that.

:( And I didn't appreciate it when I was little and my family would go on these huge long car rides on the Blue Ridge...sometimes we were lucky and got to stop at Grandfather or Pilot Mountain...but not usually. I'd give anything to be bored like that again.

[redqueen]

32. I enjoyed those very much.

Thanks. :hi: