I'm writing this post as a follow-up to my story on
Holy Trinity Church of the Fresco. We drove along the Blue Ridge Parkway after touring the church, and the leaf colors were really gorgeous that day. Sometimes I save my pictures and material and wait weeks (or months) to write about them; but I wanted to go ahead and get this out because the leaves are being blown off the trees faster than I've ever seen before. There have been years where some of our trees in the area still had pretty leaves as late as Thanksgiving. I'm pretty sure that won't be the case this year.
Not only were the leaves spectacularly colorful, but the sky was colorful as well, and full of interesting cloud formations. I love the different layers of sky colors in this picture. There are violet, pale rose, white, pale blue, and then the smokey blue of the mountain ridges in the distance.
