That's My World Tuesday: Boone and Blowing Rock NC

My mother was from Boone, North Carolina and growing up we always spent a lot of time visiting my grandmother there.

My mother died when she was 65 in 1990 and about 13 years after that my grandmother died (she lived to be around 103 as I recall).

The Boone/Blowing Rock part of NC will always seem like a second home to me.

Bill and I were there last week enjoying the fall foliage.

In central NC where I live, most of our trees haven't changed colors yet.

It always feels like I'm extending fall when I go to the mountains during peak color.

Then I come home and only the dogwoods and a few other trees have changed.

Every day though I'm seeing more trees beginning to get some color.

All of the shots in this post were taken last week in the NC mountains.

I took so many pictures that my blog can look like a very long autumn.

I started some time ago with the dogwoods in color at home, since they've already changed here.

Since I got home from the mountains I've been posting shots from that trip.

By the time I am done posting vacation shots we'll have more and more color here.

I like all the seasons but I think fall and winter are probably my favorites, although I'm usually ready for spring.

I wouldn't mind having a shorter summer than we usually have.

We had an unusually hot summer this year although it did start cooling off earlier than it sometimes does.

I didn't get any good shots of the protected parts inside of rock overhangs.

The light wasn't good for shooting those areas but I commented to Bill that a whole community could live inside some of them.

I was exaggerating but during our longest hike there were some rocks with protected areas that could shelter a large family during a storm.

I'm running out of things to say because I picked way too many pictures to go into this post.

The house below nestled in the hills appealed to me.

The house below is a view of cone manor that makes it look a lot smaller than it is.

There weren't any lilies still blooming on bass lake on the cone estate but lots of lily pads could be seen.

One last shot for this long post.

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