memorial day in blue ridge • 05.30.10
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.
