We are at Mount Mitchell, the highest point east of the Mississippi River. We took a trip during Thanksgiving week--and this was one of our stops. A nice couple took our picture (above) --after we hiked up to the overlook. George and I had been to Mount Mitchell years ago--but they have really fixed it up now. We had a great time. Below are more pictures.
I asked George to stand next to the sign --showing where we were. They have built this nice overlook --which wasn't here several years ago when we were here. It was quite cold up on that mountain!!!
The views from the overlook were fabulous. The mountain ranges seemed to go on forever---even though the clouds and the fog were all around us!!! I also loved seeing all of the Evergreens near us.
You can see the road which we traveled in order to get most of the way up here. We had to hike the last lap --but it wasn't too bad (pant pant)... ha.. I enjoyed seeing the clouds 'touch' the tops of those peaks in the distance!
As in some of our other recent photos, the sun kept trying to pop through the clouds... That made for some great photos --showing the sun and also the shadows.
Finally, here is my favorite picture taken from Mount Mitchell. I love seeing the sun's rays ---or sunbeams--shining down... Isn't this one marvelous?
Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We certainly did. I'll share much more from our trip last week over the next several blog posts. Hope you saw the neat Hallmark movie on CBS last night. It was AWESOME!
Hugs,
