7.07.2013

Lush & Green

We had a break in the non-stop rain yesterday, so we jumped on the chance to get out in the woods. We decided on a hike to a nearby waterfall in Pisgah National Forest. With the amount of rain we've had this week (not exaggerating - we got 7 inches of rain July 1-5), everything was gorgeous and lush, and the waterfalls were exceptional.


Our area used to be filled with old growth Eastern Hemlock trees, but over the last few years, they've been quickly dying due to a bug called Woolly Adelgid. It's really sad to see all these dead trees in the middle of what is an otherwise gorgeous, healthy forest.


To get to our trail head, we had to drive 9 miles down a Forest Service road, which was beautiful. The weather has been unseasonably cool (probably due to all that rain!), so we put our sweatshirts on and rolled the windows down, taking in all those amazing summer-in-the-mountain-forest smells. What are normally small streams trickling down rocks on the side of the road had turned into raging waterfalls.




Our hike was muddy and wet, but the 70 foot tall waterfall at the end was worth getting dirty.




We are so lucky to live in a place surrounded by such natural beauty!
Hope you're enjoying a wonderful weekend!

8 comments:

  1. Gorgeous! I love that area - you're so lucky to live there!

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  2. Absolutely beautiful! It's posts like these, mixed in with the knitting, of course, that make me certain we'd be best friends if we lived in the same part of the country, haha!

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    1. Haha! I think you're right! That's part of the reason I love the online knitting community - I get to interact with such awesome like-minded people!

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  3. I got a taste of your forests when we were in the Smoky Mountains. You are blessed to be within day trip distance! We have to schedule a mega trip each summer for some of that.

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    1. We sure are blessed - this is less than an hour away from our house!

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  4. Wow. That looks like an amazing place to play outside.

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    1. It was! It was so much fun - if it had been a bit warmer, I would have jumped in for a soak!

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