Well, you know it is autumn when every morning you go out and see the car covered in frost. A bit warmer this morning than yesterday so no scraping required but I will have to settle in a new routine of getting the car ready for the day.

So the old sheets and blankets made for summer are now replaced with thicker ones. No light PJs but rather our woolen ones. Trying to avoid having to use the heat much at this time of the year. Save that bill for when it really gets cold.

But with sunny warm days and chilly nights, we should see autumn colours spring forth in the next two weeks here in Winston. We did our annual trip to the mountains this past weekend and we did manage to go further south than we ever did before. The colours were at their peak at the higher elevations and the day was perfect with clear skies and warm temperatures. The only thing that was not appreciated were the crowds. It seemed to be a perfect day for everyone else to travel the Blue Ridge Parkway.

One feature of the trip was a visit to the Linville Falls, a really nice spot to visit when there is fewer crowds. One interesting thing about the trip coming home was that we took a new route, highway 80 which is as tortous drive I have ever been on; twisting and turning in a steep spiral, it is like one of those roads that car commercials like to use to demonstrate handling. Took quite a bit of control at low speed to stay on the road.

I took plenty of photos on our trip and I hope to get them up over the next week or so with the other photos on my list to do (Dixie Classic, Car shows).