Musings

I’m calling this autumn gold. I find it much more approachable than Silver Glow, um?, nope: Cloud Dancer. That’s a shade of white being promoted for 2026, and that’s a purely dopey name.

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I was lucky today. We had rain off and on. Without planning, every time I went outside it wasn’t raining.

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I’m feeling the approaching solstice…this dawn-ish sky arrived late.

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Our neighbor went for the easy, low-degree-of-difficulty, outdoor seasonal lighting. It’s a light with a slow-spinning color wheel in front of it pointed at the front of his house. Side benefit for us, the moving points of light come in our windows, too. [I would not be pleased at all if they came in the bedroom.]

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The promised cold rolled in, yet it wasn’t staggeringly chilly during the daylight hours as the sun did a good job of radiating heat. During darkness, well, that’s a different story.

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This was our day…wind blowing leaves around and dusting the sidewalks with acorns, too.

Here’s an iced stone bench at the Canyon Rim Visitor Center at the New River Gorge last week. It is representing (suggesting? hinting at?) the cold predicted for us for the next few days. A low of 21°F is expected tomorrow morning, even colder with the wind chill. That’s brr, but brrrrrrrrrrr for ATL.

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Saw cranberries; had to buy them, then sauce them. Mmmmm.

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Grocery shopping almost always tops the chore list after a trip, as it did this morning. I looked in the fruit fridge display and thought, hmm, blueberry prices are cheaper, just a bit, but cheaper. Then, it hit me: the packages are the same, but now they have 11 oz, not 12. I’m still hot about it. [I tried to include the “flames” emoji, but my software won’t post it.]

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Snow granules. Indeed, we found snow in Asheville, not enough to be visible anywhere but odd spots like cracks on our car’s body.

We fitted in one more loved-ones stop in SC, and zoomed home, negotiating one last Atlanta traffic slow-down en route.

So glad we went. Turns out that we managed to find the best weather window that there was, although we didn’t know it at the time.

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I find it always special when I’m rolling along a mountain road and find a pull-off vista-view. Here’s one…

…with snow outlining every little trail and logging road. This is a close-up of that “triangle” on the right side above.

Our tourist stop of the day was at (one part of) New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, in West Virginia. We first saw the gorge from these windows in the Canyon Rim Visitor Center.

Truly a gorgeous gorge—even with rain starting to fall.

Here’s the high bridge crossing the gorge…

…and here’s the high bridge from the low bridge, which is the one we crossed.

The rest of the day was rain, never a blinding storm, but constant, mile after mile. We hear that we may awaken to snow tomorrow here in Asheville, despite being so much farther south than the southern Lake Erie shore.

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