After five days alone in the mountains with my husband for our anniversary, it wasn’t easy jumping back into the chaos of everyday routine. I’m thankful for our quiet time, especially the walk we took as we were leaving. We have a tradition of taking a leisurely stroll, playing in a stream, or a combination of the two as we make our way home from the Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg area.
We located the clearing with a small cemetery, rock walled on one side, that we found two years ago.
This one sums it up, the peace.
These last two show our botanical mystery. These are the fruit of a small bush in the forest. We didn’t see another like it. The top looked like the color and texture of a raspberry, spread into a petal-like shape. The underside had hanging irregular red berries. Do you have any idea what this is?
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Looks so peaceful. Would love to visit that area sometime.
We have that same bush with the “berries” in our yard. Have no idea what it is though (http://gashuttergirl.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/picture-fall-day-3-the-beauty-challenge/).
Glad you had a great anniversary trip.
We were in Estes Park last week and it was SO hard to come home. I just wanted to stay there in a place where life is a little slower, sweeter, and more peaceful.
Your photos are gorgeous, Dawn.
Those are amazing pictures!
Erika – that’s the same bush! Do you have more than one? That was the only one we saw. I would love to know what it is!
It is actually in the neighbor’s yard. It looked like there were maybe 3 separate bushes all together. Next time I see him, I will ask if he knows and pass the information on to you. I posted my pic to facebook and twitter asking anyone for an identification too. Maybe someone will know 🙂
So beautiful. We take Sundays off the grid, but everyone once in awhile we’ll take the whole weekend or a long weekend off – even then it’s hard to jump back in, but little by little we come back different and do less.
Hi there, found u from Ann’s blog….
LOVE the photoshop pics!! You also qualify as one of my hero’s b/c as a mom of 6 kids I admire mommiest who WALK with the FATHER, give their lives to homeschool and disciple their kids and have more than I.
One of my best friends has 8 and when I borrow 2 from my spiritual kiddos…it actually flows more=) Maybe b/c I get MORE GRACE when I have more…LOL
I was curious about u helping to move blogs to WP???
These photos are stunning!
And I also enjoyed my quick tour of some of the other posts on your blog. Congrats on your 25th anniversary! 🙂