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| Two people very happy to be here (August 6-9, 2018) |
Dear Friends, It is hard to describe in words how much I (we) loved our little trip last week...In order to celebrate my 76th birthday, my adorable husband, George, took me back to one of my favorite get-aways, the Pisgah Inn --on the Blue Ridge Parkway, about 25 miles southwest of Asheville, NC. This will be our 3rd visit here --and we already have one scheduled for next year.
For four days, we not only enjoyed just being at the Inn, but we also enjoyed traveling on the Blue Ridge Parkway, doing a little hiking, checking out waterfalls, eating plenty of great food at the inn restaurant (including Blackberry Cobbler with Ice Cream; Oink Oink!!!! ha), driving across the Cherohala Skyway, checking out the Newfound Gap area of our Smoky Mountains (on the way home)----AND visiting Biltmore where we enjoyed seeing the Chihuly Glass Sculptures... I have so many pictures and so many possible blog posts...
BUT--today, I'll begin by showing you a little from the PISGAH INN... (If you want more information about the inn, click
HERE.) If you are ever looking for a wonderful and peaceful place to visit (especially in the summer --if you are looking for some cooler weather), AND if you love being in the mountains--then this is the place for you!
Hope you enjoy the pictures. First of all, I'll tell you where we were!!!!!! Sit back and enjoy!
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| Look careful below the arrow --and you'll see PISGAH INN!!!!! Do you see us --way up there???? The elevation up there is about 5700 feet... AND --it was so COOL (in the 60's-70's) for August which I loved!!!!! |
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| I took these pictures with my long lens from another overlook along the Blue Ridge Parkway!!!! Now --you can see us a little better! |
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| Another Overlook along the parkway; You can see us even better!!! |
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| AND ---here's one even closer!!!! Our room was in the building you can see on the right. We were on the top floor near the middle. There are at least 2 more buildings to the right of ours not visible in this picture. |
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| Our room was in this building (Building 2) |
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| The front of our building; I took this picture from the front of our room late in the afternoon on August 6... I love seeing the sun peaking through the trees. |
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| The grounds at Pisgah Inn are so pretty... (Glad the deer haven't eaten their Hosta) |
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| Talk about peaceful!!!! Get a cold drink (or some hot tea) --and sit outside and enjoy the gorgeous view!!! |
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| Look at the mountain views we had from our room (balcony) ---or from the rocking chairs in the picture above. |
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| We saw so many beautiful WILDFLOWERS this week. I took this picture from our balcony!! |
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| They recently built this terrific platform near the restaurant --where people could sit or stand and enjoy the views. |
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| Here's George doing what we both did all week---taking a picture!!!! This was from our table in the restaurant one cool morning. NOTE that we wore our sweatshirts several times during the week, especially in the mornings!!!!! |
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| My photo of the view from the table at the restaurant that morning; Isn't it amazing???? |
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| Our Balcony ---as we were taking pictures of a beautiful SUNRISE; We got up about 6:30 and enjoyed the sunrise all three mornings. |
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| A Panorama of our SUNRISE which I took with my iPhone on August 7, 2018 |
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| We enjoyed seeing the fog in the mountains below us... This was taken one morning at sunrise... |
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| Even though we couldn't see the SUNSET from our room ---we enjoyed seeing a beautiful sky as the sun set in the west. |
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| A VERY VERY happy lady --just enjoying the views and glad to be there... |
WELL my Friends, I could go on and on and on ---but this will give you a taste of beautiful Pisgah Inn... We dodged the rain most all week --but never had much at all where we were... Seeing rain all around us made for some beautiful pictures.... SO---be ready for some more another time!!!!
Thanks to all of you for the wonderful birthday wishes, and for your thoughts about my health situation. I had a wonderful week ---and even though I am now 'slower than Christmas', we did do some hiking and I did good!!!! I have the most awesome husband in the entire world. He is so helpful and so caring... I am one lucky lucky woman.
Hugs,
