Traveling Tuesday

Love to check the miles along the Blue Ridge Parkway...and to check for colors in the trees.

  Last week on Wed. I drove along looking to see how far up I'd have to go to find leaves that have turned.

At Craggy Gardens picnic area turnoff

 After about 10 miles, and a couple thousand feet elevation higher than Black Mountain NC, there were yellows.

 Not many reds, to speak of.

 Our dogwoods used to be brilliant early color.

 Perhaps the storm a few weeks ago knocked many of those leaves down.

 Or the dogwoods are succumbing to the disease which is untreatable apparently.

Quote for today:

Stop running from the ferocity of your own Being...
Burn off all your own games to that in you which is
Pure Intensity...
When you meet the very Core of your Being
become completely loyal to the deepest passion in you
and allow no more waste of time - find that devotion
to Reality [Truth] within yourself...

Aisha Salem