I can see for miles and miles — NOT.

Well, that was part of the plan anyway after reading Rich Stevenson post about

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Autumn sunrise, a few falls and a capture I’ve been wanting to get.

Since it doesn’t look like we’ll ever be doing away with time change, June and I decided to get up to view the almost 8am sunrise. Still up at 5am for coffee and the hour long drive to get

Falls Falls Falls in Fall

We drove to these falls by way of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

I went ahead and had my full pot of coffee and was quite surprised to see all the Parkway bathrooms closed with portajohns in their place.

We can usually drag-out leaf chasing around here

If we start in the higher elevations and move to lower elevations, then over the state line to South Carolina, we typically can visually soak up more than the average leaf peeper.

But this year,

How ’bout them apples

and grapes and pumpkins. We have an abundance of churches, Mexican restaurants, and apple orchards around here, well now we have a lot of breweries too.

A few of us gals took off to hit the orchards around Western NC.  Several we drove past because they didn’t really look like they’d appreciate us touring around with our cameras and tripods.

 

The first place out of the car was not an apple orchard, but a vineyard.

Shootin in the rain, just shootin in the rain

A week after going to South Carolina, Marjorie and I went out in the rain here in Western NC, starting in Flat Rock.

I discovered my jacket was only a windbreaker, and not waterproof. I may look into getting one of those tripod umbrella holders. 

WNC Magazine photo contest -please vote

If you already voted, please continue to vote once per day.  It was not in the rules not to have your photo watermarked but they requested one without it after the contest had started. I’m not in the habit of posting large photos or photos that have not been watermarked since it is what I do for a living. It was my understanding you only sent larger, logo-free photos if you won the contest or they wanted it for the cover as then they would give photo credit. Although I’m honored to have an image chosen to be in the finals, I may do things differently next year.

Squirrel in the snow. “Cute for food”

If you have a moment, would you please go vote.
My entry is the squirrel in the snow title Cute For Food. (no longer watermarked)
http://wncmagazine.com/photocontest You may vote once daily.
Round 1 voting runs October 15-22; Round 2 runs October 23-31. THANK YOU.