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During our first western trip in 2011, Betsy and I walked around an Albuquerque, New Mexico, square on a late afternoon in June. Many of the sights reminded us of settings we’d seen in western movies and television shows. I found the second floor balcony of a building in this plaza to be very pretty, so of course I took a picture.
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My Beautiful Bride loves snow (me not so much!) — she can hardly wait to get outside when it’s snowing. Unfortunately we haven’t had much snow here in Fairfield Glade over the past few years. but Betsy is hoping that changes this year.
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We had to transplant some of our iris this past spring as part of our (unsuccessful) effort to keep the deer out of our roses. As a result, some of them didn’t bloom during their normal blooming season. But Victoria Falls, a beautiful blue iris, decided to bloom in late October. I hope she is saying that she approves of her new location.
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We’ve had to move new roses from the yard to containers on the deck to keep them out of reach of hungry deer. I haven’t had much experience growing roses in containers, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. But Pink Parfait rewarded us with a late October blossom, so I’m hoping we can keep some roses alive.
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For several years Betsy and I would take a ‘leaf peeking’ trip in mid-October to enjoy the autumn colors in the mountains of east Tennessee and western North Carolina. We would usually make a loop of our trip, taking in both the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Cherohala Skyway. We almost always stop at Indian Boundary, which is off the Cherohala. This is the view we enjoyed last year.
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Betsy and I have been celebrating our anniversary at Pisgah Inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. We keep going back because of the views of the mountains are amazing. We very much enjoy sitting on the balcony of our room and taking in the view.
We usually hope for clear, sunny days when we’re visiting the inn, but a cloudy, overcast day has a beauty of its own, as the picture above shows. In the early morning light we were able to look down on some of the clouds covering the valley and some of the mountain peaks.
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Betsy and I made our first trip out west back in 2011. The scenery we enjoyed as we traveled was definitely different from the landscape we have in eastern Tennessee. There were times when we felt we were driving through the set of a western movie or television show. When we saw this town (our GPS said it was Laguna, New Mexico) in the distance we just had to pull over and get a picture.
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Since we have had many more visits from deer into our yard over the past couple of years, we’ve had to shift many of our roses from the bed in front to containers on our deck. (So far the deer haven’t climbed onto the deck in search of their snacks!) Fortunately, the roses seem to be doing fairly well in their containers. This is Color Magic, one of our favorites.
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Looking Glass Falls is a beautiful waterfall near Brevard, North Carolina. Betsy and I have visited it many times over the years, and as we get older we appreciate it more and more. The waterfall is right by the roadside — no hiking required!
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I happen to think that roses are beautiful, but there is something about water droplets on the blossoms that makes them even more appealing. This is Elle in a picture taken after a shower last year.
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