Happy Monday!

 Happy Monday!

Wishing everyone a great day and happy new week!

"The waterfalls is nature's laughter."

Looking Glass Waterfall, near the Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina. 

"As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls, birds and winds sing."  John Muir

"We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."

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Happy Monday!

 Happy Monday!

Wishing everyone a great day and happy new week!

" We build too many walls and not enough bridges." Isaac Newton

Swinging Bridge, Grandfather Mountain, Linville North Carolina, Blue Ridge Parkway. 

"Travel is the bridge between you and everything." Rumi

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." 

"We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."

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Our World, My World

 Hello and Happy Monday!

 There are many parks to visit right off the Blue Ridge Parkway, on Nov 4th we visited the Mt Mitchell State Park. Mt Mitchell is the highest peak or point east of the Mississippi River. The park is located at milepost 355.4 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. It is 35 miles northeast of Asheville North Carolina.

 We walked the steep but short trail to the summit from the parking lot. It was a chilly and cloudy day, but no rain.  I lucked out on this trip with the weather once again. It started raining when we were about 3 hours from home on the last day. There are 360 degree views at the top, well worth the steep walk. 

 Hubby and I hiked and walked a lot of steps during this road trip to the North Carolina Mountains along the Blue Ridge Parkway. They say there are 91 species of birds seen in this park. They were hiding from me  🙁 .  I have to say we saw few birds this trip, overall everywhere I go I am seeing less birds.  Very sad.. 

 I loved this view of the mountain ranges.

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Saturday's Critters # 309

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!


If you love all God's creatures like I do and also like to blog about them and take critter photos this is where you can share your critter post. Link up your post and share your critters, join in with my critter party ! You can share any kind of critters the real ones, pretend ones, statues and paintings, a new or old post!

I am sharing some of the birds and critters I saw on our North Carolina Blue Ridge Parkway road trip. The next two photos are a couple of White-tailed Deer seen along the parkway. 

A Black Bear waiting to cross the road, I stopped and waited for him to cross safely.

Blue Ridge Parkway birds, Pied-billed Grebe at the lake, Pigeons on the waterfall cliff, White-breasted Nuthatch, Possibly Phoebe and bottom right corner a Carolina Chickadee.

The Green Anoles were seen at the Chimney Rocks State Park. 

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Happy Thankful Thursday

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I have more trip photos from our recent road trip on the Blue Ridge Parkway to Asheville North Carolina.  On this day, we visited Grandfather Mountain State Park, there is an admission fee that is used to preserve this beautiful mountain park, it's biodiversity and all it's nature. 

Below are the Split Rock and Sphinx Rock, rock formations in this park are supposedly dated back to 1.2 billion years. 

Rock formation is title Sphinx Rock, it does have a Sphinx face.

There is a wildlife preserve, we saw the cute river otter, elk and eagles. 

There is a Swinging Bridge, which is a mile high above sea level. The mountain is 5946 feet high and is estimated to be 300 million years old. 

It was a windy day, I was thankful they have anchored this bridge so it does not swing.  

Me and my shadow on the Mile High Swinging Bridge.

The closer view from the Swinging Bridge, I assume the buildings are hotels, condo and vacation homes.  

The American Robin seemed to be enjoying these berries.  

I counted at least 5 Robins in this bush with these red berries. 

I am so thankful to be retired and able to take road trips.

I was thankful to see any birds, this trip was more for hiking and waterfalls than birding. 

I am thankful for all your visits and comments. 


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Our World, My world

 Hello and happy Monday everyone!

** God Bless and thanks to all our Veterans** 


 Hubby and I recently returned from a road trip to Boone & Asheville North Carolina. We drove the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway in both Virginia and North Carolina.  We started off the trip driving the whole length of the Skyline Drive, Shenandoah my post on our first day is here Road Trip.

These photos are from our 2nd day on the Blue Ridge Parkway. We stopped at various overlooks and Blue Ridge Music Center. Our hike for the day was at the E.B. Jeffress Park on the Cascades Trail.

There was still plenty of fall colors along the Blue Ridge Parkway on November 2nd. 

The photos in this mosaic are views of the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Blue Ridge Music Center.  

 The Blue Ridge Music Center, a museum promoting the historic music and blue grass musicians of the Blue Ridge region.

Me and my shadow and the view from the Blue Ridge Parkway. 

From our hike in the E.B. Jeffress Park to the Cascades Waterfall.  The parking area is right off the Blue Ridge Parkway. They call this an easy 30 minute hike. If you take the steps to view the base of the falls it is more difficult. It is just a .8 mile round trip hike out and back, part of the loop was closed.

On the Cascades Trail we walked past by the Falls Creek and little cascades toward the taller falls. The mountain laurel lined the trail and there was still plenty of falls colors.

 A view of a small cascade.

More of the Cascades Waterfall.

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Skywatch>>Blueridge Parkway

It is time to link up with one of my favorites memes Skywatch Friday and  NF Winged.

I have a few photos from my latest trip, we started the trip driving down the Blueridge Parkway.  We were checking out the fall foliage and of course I could not go anywhere without looking for the birds.

 I believe this is an Eastern Phoebe, he or she just refused to turn and look at me.

Above, we stopped at this overlook to see the view when I noticed it is the site for the local Hawk Migration Count. A few birders were there watching for the hawks.

Above is the Mabry Mill and a pretty blue sky.

The snoozing duck was seen on the pond near the Mabry Mill along the parkway.


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Thanks to Sylvia and Sandy for hosting Skywatch Friday! Thanks to Monica the host of NF Winged. Also, thank you for stopping by to see my post. I wish everyone a safe and happy weekend.