November | 2015 | Jeannie's Travel Addiction

LEAF PEEPING and PUMPKINS in ASHEVILLE, N.C.

October 26, 2015

An end of October visit to Asheville, North Carolina proved to be peak peeping time for the fall colored leaves. The beautiful mix of colors was beautiful every direction I looked.

The Grove Park Inn was an enjoyable place to explore, have a tasty dessert and enjoy the scenery. It opened in 1913 after taking 3 years to build with 400 men working 10 hour shifts, 6 days a week. They used mules, wagons and ropes to haul in and place granite boulders to build the hotel. An impressive list of famous people have stayed here since it opened. The Grove Park Inn also hosts the biggest and best Gingerbread House competition every year in November/December which I have seen in the past and highly recommend.

The hotel also has a wonderful expansion patio to relax and enjoy the colorful scenery of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The Biltmore Mansion , built in 1889, is also located in Asheville and well worth the ticket price to tour.

View from the back terrace of the Biltmore Mansion.

Pumpkins in prison.

Gotta love this Tennessee Smoky Mountain rest stop.

Hope you enjoyed your arm chair visit to Asheville and thanks for reading!!

YELLOW RUMPED WARBLER VISITS MY BIRDBATH TODAY

Wednesday November 4, 2015 / St. Louis, MO

Just yesterday I was whining to my neighbor that I hadn’t seen many birds in my backyard recently. Then, this morning, I was blessed with this new visitor ! At first glance my thought was this poor bird had been spattered with yellow paint! But recalling Mother Nature’s unique sense of humor, my research, paired with my best guess, tells me this is a Myrtle Yellowed Rump Warbler. Evidently these birds rarely come to feeders, so the need for a dip in my bird bath was the attraction.

Hope you enjoy her bathing photos and just a reminder you can double click on the photo to enlarge it …….