I have just returned from spending 10 days traveling throughout the southeast. Leaving on October 10, I traveled to Mount Olive, North Carolina to visit a friend from my daughter's college. From there, I traveled to Yorktown, Virginia to visit my brother-in-law and his family. Finally, and the reason for my trip, I drove to Waynesboro, Virginia to visit my son and his wife.
Everywhere I went, I thought I would see some autumn leaves. Not a one, anywhere! Well, there were a couple, but none to speak of. That did not spoil a wonderful time, however. My son and his wife made sure that I got to be a tourist...they were too, since they have just moved to Waynesboro. We visited Monticello, picked apples at an orchard near Monticello...(they are not nearly as pretty growing on the trees as oranges are.) One would have thought we were at a football game from all the cars that were at the top of the mountain. The view was wonderful.
On that day, UVA was playing Florida State, and we wondered if the game was on the mountaintop. Sad to say, for my friends the Hamricks, and all the loyal Seminole fans, Florida State was defeated by UVA.
As I left Waynesboro and drove down I-81 and then I-77, I was reminded again of the beauty of God's creation. The Shenandoah valley is truly beautiful.
On my way home, I stopped in Gastonia NC to visit a gentleman and his wife. He had been the field leader of West Indies Mission in Haiti when I worked there as a teacher of missionary children. He is 86 and still going strong...
And as I said, not a fall leaf anywhere.
