Time for a Change of Scenery

There is time this morning for a cup of coffee while sitting in the rockers on the screened-in front porch.  It’s cool and clear and there are trees everywhere you look.  So calming after last night! Everyone finds something for breakfast and packs a little snack for the road and after a leisurely start we head for High Falls State Park, about an hour and a half away.  It’s an uneventful drive, filled with laughter and stories and a continuing discussion about the election and the future of the country.   High Falls is on the Towaliga River, which cascades over a bedrock of High Falls Granite.  We stop at the Visitors’ Center for directions to the hiking trail and we’re off.  The path follows the river past a series of cascades roaring their presence.  The four of us make our way for quite a while until Marilyn and Connie decide to head back to the car while Ginger and I continue onward for a while longer.  At one point a white blur charges b...

Marilyn wiggles my toes at 6:30 and we throw on some clothes and drive off for sunrise.  We need to get through the park gate, which doesn’t open until 7:00 and are happy to find that it will let us out, and we know it will be after seven when we return.   We have scoped out an area behind the Visitors’ Center and manage to get a few decent shots, even though there are no clouds to add texture or refract the sun’s rays. We get home and find that Connie is already up.  She was just about to start our coffee and I step in so that she can make her own.  We three decide that today is a good day for scrambled eggs with cheese and lots of veggies and sausage patties and banana muffins!  Connie chops up all the veggies, I beat up the eggs, and then we go on hiatus until Ginger makes her appearance.  We had just decided to begin cooking when she joins us.  Marilyn scrambles the eggs and we’re ready to feed our faces with a big and glorious breakfast to ho...