memorial day in blue ridge
we headed up to blue ridge to enjoy memorial day weekend with drew and blake and blake’s friend christy. we drove in and went straight out for a little 3 mile hike around to the creek/waterfall where we had gotten engaged almost two years before. it was a beautiful hike. speaking of beautiful, here lillis is (i think) demonstrating a bear attack.
lillis made friends with a butterfly as we sat and rested at the top of the falls
lillis wanted me to get a pic of us up there
i took a video of lil sitting atop the falls.
that afternoon, drew and christy and i headed down to the river to do some fly fishing. the river looked good, but we didn’t get much in the way of fish. drew caught one, and i lost one with too much slack in my line. it was, however, a good time……peaceful out on the river and warm enough for a wet wade.
the next day, lil and i were gonna go kayaking but it was raining. so, we decided to drive across to the outlets (after breakfast at a cute diner up in blue ridge). the sky was amazing along our drive……big angry clouds and deep green fields and trees.
at the outlets, we got lillis a coffee press at williams sonoma, and we decided to splurge a bit and buy some patio furniture at the pottery barn outlet….a nice sectional made from eucalyptus with big cushy red waterproof cusion. we spent a good bit of time sunday reading books outside under the magnolia trees in our new fancy outdoor couch.
