Dear Blog Friends/Family, As most of you know, from June 16-18, 2020, George and I took a little trip to the Pisgah Inn, on the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Asheville, North Carolina. This past week, I went through all of my pictures from that trip, and picked out pictures of some of the beauty all around us that week to share with you... Hope you enjoy this set of pictures. I have them divided into 4 groups or 3 pictures each: Mountain Laurel, Ferns and Greenery, Rhododendrons, and Flame Azaleas.
I cannot seem to find a way to put a 'caption' with my pictures with this new Blogger program, so the caption (if I could write one) would tell you that the picture above is a beautiful MOUNTAIN LAUREL. Does anyone know how to put in captions with your pictures?
Here's another picture of the Mountain Laurel.. Can you count how many blooms are on that bush???? Me neither!!!! ha ha
Here's a close-up of one of the tiny Mountain Laurel blooms. Mountain Laurel starts out a medium pink color, and as it opens, it turns more whitish with pink... They are so beautiful!
Wouldn't you like to be here and take this wonderful hike with us? As I walked this path, I felt like I was in Heaven on Earth.. The ferns (AND the smell, AND all of the greens around us) were awesome!!!!
Have you ever taken time to check out ferns up close and personal? So intricate and amazing!!!!
When taking time --as we hike-- to look at the interesting beauty all around me, I found this little patch of some kind of tiny little ground-cover around the mossy area.. Does anyone know what this is???? It was so beautiful!
As we headed further up the mountain, we encountered these gorgeous Rhododendron blooming at the higher elevations of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It is truly amazing to see all of the different wildflowers in bloom at different elevations and at different times of the year. 
We have Rhododendrons blooming in our yard in May ---but never this many blooms!!!! So gorgeous!
I got closer to these Rhododendron blooms for a better picture. When the sun is shining, the colors of the Rhododendron blooms seem more pink and less lilac/purple (as in the two pictures above)...We didn't see a lot of sunshine when we were there this year --but the flowers were still gorgeous.
One of my all-time favorite Wild Flowers is a FLAME AZALEA....The orange color is so perfect to blend in with the green around it...
Here are the Flame Azaleas a little closer!!! Aren't they just awesome?
I hope you enjoyed all of the gorgeous blooms from the Blue Ridge Parkway in June of 2020.
Have an awesome week!!!!!
Hugs,
