Fall Gift

Here is a great little homemade gift you can give for a Thanksgiving hostess treat or make some up for your neighbors for Christmas. Homemade Granola. No, I'm not going organic or living by candlelight. I still like pesticides on my fruit and I don't recycle my ziplock baggies. I got this yummy recipe from my friend Holly and it will be listed below.To make it special, I put them in mason

Don't Cry Over Spilled...Crumbcake

OK. So I have to pause your regularly scheduled postings of NC for this "special" update. So Aaron has been asking me for months to make Crumbcake "like Mrs. Julie makes." Well, of course I had to, but just kept forgetting to get it at the store. So he would ask me every now and then "Mom, did you get the stuff to make Crumbcake yet?" Like a good mom I replied, "No, I forgot again..."So!

Blue Ridge Mountains

This is one of our first pictures together on our trip. We stopped at a scenic overlook and saw the reason why this area is called the Blue Ridge Mountains. I never knew it was for the blue hue that the mountains cast!

Amazing

To me, this is God's masterpiece. Only He could create something so extraordinary, so colorful. It doesn't even look real. This was what we got to look at every morning out the back of the house.

Changing Seasons

We had the priveledge of traveling to the Georgia/North Carolina/South Carolina area at the end of October. We were just in time to see the magnificent beauty of the season change. I was blown away. Over the next few days I would like to share some of my favorite pictures of the beauty we experienced. I took over 1700 pictures. My camera was smoking and begging me to take a break... While a