Wednesday, March 25, 2009
An easy day…we’re just wasting time until we go to DC. It’s raining and gray, and Harris put on long pants for the first time in a long while. We dinked around Culpeper, a little shopping and geocaching. Harris found 8 today!
We neglected to mention our beautiful route here. The first time we came to NC, through Virginia, years ago, we drove down the Shenandoah Valley, and thought it was gorgeous. This area of North Carolina and Virginia is along the Blue Ridge Mountains. These wouldn’t be mountains out west, but here they are. They are blue. They are “big”. They are beautiful. We drove up Interstate 81, which isn’t as scenic as the Blue Ridge Parkway, but it is less curvy. We still enjoyed the scenic valleys, somewhat dotted with farms and ranches. The trees are a mix of pines and still bare hardwoods, but it is easy to imagine what it would look like in summer and fall. There are some trees blossoming, mostly the Bradford pears, with very white blossoms. We’ve also seen fields of daffodils, some planted, and some wild. Around the Biltmore House, tulips were beginning to bloom, along with magnolia trees.
But today it’s just gray and rainy. Guess we have to take our share of not-so-great weather. (I’m not calling it bad weather, cuz I don’t want to offend the weather gods and call down any snowstorms or tornadoes on the way home. **grin**)
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