Winter Travel

Jacob has to start back to school Monday so it was time for him to return home to the small town in East Tennessee where he and his family have been living for the past year. We made made the trek today. For Jacob - anything. On the interstates, we passed the outskirts of Hendersonville and Asheville, drove up Saluda Grade and a few miles into the Volunteer State and then back down. Saluda Grade is generally not a desirable road to travel if like me you don't like heights, except for today. Nature's winter beauty superceded my fears. The sky, everchanging and always gorgeous, was a pretty blue and filled with mixed varieties of white clouds, and there was plenty of awesome entertainment as we whizzed by trees that were silhouetted against it. The temperature was in the mid forties, but snow still dappled the more shaded ground and long icicles hung from the walls of stone that line portions of the highway. I love the drab shades of green, brown, gray, and blue of winter in their time. Here are a couple of photos that I took out of the car window.