Weekend Road Trip Part 2

On Sunday we loaded up the car and set out for the Blue Ridge Parkway.  We stopped for breakfast at a place called Moose Cafe and since it was located right at the entrance to the farmer's market we decided to make a quick stop before getting on the Parkway.

I am so jealous of this farmer's market! I don't know what it's like other months but you should see all of the pumpkins they have right now! We bought several and if we had more room in the car, we would have bought more.  So many to choose from!

Luckily I had this dashing young man with me to load up all of my pumpkins!
There is a neat little garden shop near the farmer's market and y'all know we can't go anywhere without stopping at a garden shop.  Their pansies were so pretty.

Our next stop was the North Carolina Arboretum.  We could have spent an entire day here but our time was very limited so we just made a quick drive through.  It reminded me so much of Callaway Gardens- we spent a lot of time there when Todd lived in Georgia.

 
The trees in the arboretum had some of the best color we saw anywhere. Look at how gorgeous these are!!

 

I wanted to just lay in these leaves all day.  I brought a bunch of home with me and they're pressing/drying in a book right now.

I have realized that landscape photography is not my thing.  I think I need another lens.  I noticed this with my pictures from Aspen and Park City as well.  The colors didn't show up nearly as well in these pictures as they do upclose.  I need to work on that!

We drove for a while and watched the fog roll in.

Then our pretty drive went from this..

To this..

We kept saying, "we should have taken a few more days off" as we were driving around because we kept finding things we wanted to explore.  This is just a small glimpse of everything we did while we were in Asheville- we used every minute we possibly could.  Until next time, Asheville...