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Neat church bell tower outside Danville, VA - headin' south
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Artistically enhanced stump in the 1000 Trails Forest Lakes RV Park
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Same stump, different face by a different carver. What a neat surprise!
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A must stop in Lexington, NC - don't think they make candy there, but they do sell about everything you thought wasn't made any more
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In Old Salem, the gatekeeper is in 1700's Moravian dress
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Ceramic room-heaters abound, like the ones we saw at Williambsurg
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Explaining how the oven works - and why you have to cook things in a certain sequence as the oven cools.
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The guy outside on the bench isn't for sale. Maybe for rent . . .
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The lady describes daily life in the Single Brothers' House
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The smaller of the two 18th century David Tannenberg pipe organs in Salem
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The tinsmith explains how he makes his tin things
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Very popular mode of transportation for weddings
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Mmmmmm - fresh baked buns!
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The horse got a lot of attention. The driver looks miffed
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The gunsmith explains what he does
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Set for the one-man historical magic show "The War Wizard", staged by Atlanta actor Max Howard. Very enjoyable
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Spectacular - the largest pipe organ ever built by David Tannenberg, dating to around 1780. Fully restored, absolutely beautiful
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The beginnings of fall colors in our RV park
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There we are, accumulating leaves, colors getting better
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In preparation for the Lexington Barbeque Festival, a sand sculpture
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We can't wait to see the finished project
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In Asheville. Judy's mom was named Luella, so eating here was a no brainer
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Never saw a sign like that before - great idea.
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Entering the Folk Art Center near Asheville
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The building displays and sells folk art and crafts from all over the Appalachians. Chairs shown are art, not for sale
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Stained glass window "The Seasons".
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An old style loom, with a weaving in progress
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The on-site broom maker was very popular
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These are cobweb brooms in progress - check out those handles
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A spot of color in the Folk Art Center parking lot
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Sometimes the color tries to hide
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Along the Blue Ridge Parkway north of Asheville
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Late in the afternoon, the muted sun does wonderful things to the trees
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Very nice, but not quite the zowie colors we're hoping yet to see
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Different trees do different colors, and some trees do multiple colors
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Lots of color, but the evergreens stay green
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Another wow
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This would make a great impressionist painting
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Layers of hills, all a different shade
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We're still fascinated by the way clouds form - so unlike the Oregon Coast
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Leafy sunshine
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Every few yards, Al had to stop for another photo op
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Even with little sun, still nice
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Great glorious globs of color!
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They put lots of pullouts for people like us
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Serious fall colors ahead - heading southwest on the Blue Ridge Parkway toward Tennessee
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The light this time of day enhances the yellows
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Ain't it gorgeous?
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Different light, different effect
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Things are lookin' up
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Gotta get that last hillside close up
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A little haze mists the colors
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And what scrumptious colors they are!
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A pint of green, a quart of yellow, and a dash of red - great recipe
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Remember to look uphill
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Lots of bikers enjoyed the parkway with us
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Large vista with clouds
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Some of those Blue Ridges over there
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A little sunlight decorating the landscape
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Looks even better in a close-up
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What Renoir could have done with this!
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A rhody chandelier in the Mt Pisgah Lodge restaurant
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Hillside view from the restaurant
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There are those blue ridges again
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The restaurant parking lot
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The clouds go away, and the color changes
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Wouldn't that make a great jigsaw puzzle?
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The rhody bushes are everywhere, but no blooms this time of year
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A subject for Monet?
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What a view they must have from that fire tower
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Motorcycling is a great way to see the Parkway
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Gotta take one of this rocky hillside
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...and this rocky hillside
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Ooooh!
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Aaah!
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We know, there are too many pictures - but it's so gorgeous!
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Wunderbar!
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Splashy
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Lovely contrasts
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We didn't expect all those rhododendrons
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Holey Moley! Would you look at that . . . humongous bald spot!
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They were trying to teach her how to play in leaves.
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Whatta view!
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Same view, a little closer
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Lovely
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We want a house up here!
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Another curve, another photo op
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How many ridges can you see?
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"Looking Glass Rock" - when the light is right, it looks like a mirror
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Wrapped in color
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It's hard to exclude some of these images - so we didn't!
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Another great view
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More ridges
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It's called Graveyard Falls.
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A huge windstorm once blew down a lot of trees, which rotted and left mounds that looked like graves
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Thus the name Graveyard. But even the fake graves are now gone - burned in a big forest fire about 75 years ago
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New deciduous growth hides the burned area quickly
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Beautiful
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Candy colors
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Lovely
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Such intense colors
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We did our Blue Ridge tour on precisely the right day
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Every ridge a different color
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This old fella put forth so much color last year it killed him. Well, it could have happened . . . .
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Lovely
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Don't like red? Here's one without
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Did we take one of this on the way up the hill?
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Weeping rocks
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What more can be said . .
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What more can be said . .
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It's like a magic carpet . .
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Just when you think you've seen it all . . .
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How many blue ridges can you count? We got seven. Or maybe eight
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This would make for pretty heavy hiking
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Wow!
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Hmmm - looks like they're eating the leaves
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It's wild Blueberries! And how sweet they were!
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Gorgeous
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We like red!
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....and blue, and yellow, and green
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...but especially red
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...oh, and orange, too.
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Looks cool and refreshing
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That pale yellow is different
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Great spot for a picnic
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A hidden waterfall
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Another splashy hillside
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So many kinds of trees
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Some signs of civilization down there
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Now we're at the botanical gardens in Asheville, NC
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Lovely paths with the indigenous flora well marked
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This is a large rock - amazing patterns
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Bleeding heart
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A "strawberry bush"
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...also called "Hearts a-bursting"
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You'll have to make up your own caption. We'd surely get in trouble . . .
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Good advice . . .
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We saw this on the Travel Channel's "World's Most Unusual McDonald's". Yeah - we know - get a life . . . .
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But still, McTile floors and a grand McPiano make the McSundae taste even better
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Even a McFireplace and some overstuffed McChairs . . .
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The fabulous Biltmore mansion - a docent took this one
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Some fall colors at Biltmore
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That's the "Oh, wow" image . . .
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We didn't buy this one they took inside, but we did swipe it from the internet
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Another one we swiped from the intenet, rather than climb that hill
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A view from the gardens
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The architectural details are wonderful
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Al and the lion's mouth
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View of the Biltmore forest from the house
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The Tea House at the end of one of the immense porches
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Yeah, a really BIG porch!
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A lovely walkway at Biltmore
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This Japanese Maple was spectacular
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Judy likes to frame her pictures
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Believe it or not - a Purple Beautyberry bush (white fruited variety)
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This one is actually purple
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People paid $15 extra to go up to the roof - we didn't
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Never saw a Beech tree this size before
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View of the formal garden and greenhouse
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Judy says she's never seen so many mums in one place before
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Great stand of Pampas Grass
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As they say, a chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell
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Purple is good
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Didn't even know about the camera, and still she smiles. What a gal . .
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The two sides of the garden were mirror images
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Great framing effects as you walk down the center latticed walkway
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The tea house is a popular spot for receptions
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Very imposing
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Fabulous Fishy Fountain
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Lovely statuary everywhere
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The Biltmore Inn is VERY spendy
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The Kudzu sculptures at our Asheville RV Park. See the giraffe?
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At the Western NC Nature Center - cute little green snake eyes us
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Not-so-cute, but quite photogenic
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"Blue Object in Forest" (media: pixels in silicon)
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Judy can't resist taking pictures of squirrels
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The gray wolf used to be indigenous to NC
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The Red Wolf is almost extinct - fewer than 100 are left in the wild, and they were all captive-bred
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Two bobcats sit up and take notice as their food approaches
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The bear was in the cage temporarily while workers cut down a few trees nearby
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Whooo are yooou?
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A black vulture finds food by sight - turkey vultures (not shown) hunt by smell
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The petting zoo was kind of short on petters today
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The graveyard commemorates species now gone from the wild in NC
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Even sleepy river otters are adorable
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Judy caught these leaves in mid-color-change.
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We visited twice at First Presbyterian, Mocksville, NC - established 1767
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TA DA! The completed BBQ Festival sand sculpture in Lexington. Impressive.
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The Childress Winery. Ate lunch, took the tour, didn't buy wine
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Lovely lanterns at the entrance
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The winery is designed to look like a Tuscan villa
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In a BBQ town, they paint pigs. This one: "Fine Swine Wine" - after the Childress wine of the same name, issued for the 2005 BBQ Festival
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Most of the Childress grapes didn't survive an early frost this year - a disastrous year for NC wineries
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State-of-the-art grape press - they're pressing red grapes today
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Childress winery is a popular site for weddings
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Our guide, Sue, explains the pressing process
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The barrel room holds around 600 barrels at any one time
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Barrels are rotated often so all the wine comes into contact with the oak
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This is as close as we could get to Cooleemee, a 19th c. mansion from a huge plantation (part of which is now the 1000 Trails RV Park)
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The 1000 Trails park includes the old plantation graveyards
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Most of the stones date to the early 1800s
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One of the Lexington BBQ places - loved the hush puppies here
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The Bob Timberlake Gallery, on the east side of Lexington
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This weathervane is a Timberlake signature item
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The Timberlake Gallery has TWO painted pigs
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This is the other one, and also the last slide