Boy,
how the time flies when you are having fun.
Speaking of having fun, what a great Labor Day weekend! Aside from a few scattered sprinkles around
the area the weather was beautiful.
Although I didn’t make it to the river for a tubing expedition as I had
hoped, I did enjoy the warm weather and [mostly] blue and clear skies. It was also really nice to hear the
additional activity around Coosawattee.
While I do enjoy the peace and solitude of the North Georgia mountains, it
does the heart good to hear the sounds of children playing and seeing loads of
families enjoying time at Beaver Lake and the various parks around the
community. You could even catch a
familiar hint of campfire smell in the afternoons and evenings. Oh, how that brings back the childhood
memories! Soon enough, though, the warm
days and cool nights will give way to cool days and even cooler nights!
As I
stated in my last post I am really looking forward to fall. In fact, the fall is one of my most favorite
times of the year! There is just something about the chill in the air, the
color of the leaves and that certain smell in the air that you only get when
the leaves are falling on the ground.
There is also a certain color to the increasingly angled sunlight of the
shortening days that lets you know that winter will soon be knocking.
In
my last post I talked about some of my favorite North Georgia day trips. Well, this fall I’m hoping to have good enough
timing to visit Brasstown Bald in the peak of the color season. I’m yet to catch it, but hear that the views
are simply spectacular. I also hear the
views over the valleys along the Dragon’s Tail in North Carolina are pretty
amazing, as well. Neither destination is
over an hour from Ellijay so I’ll have to start planning my fall day trips to
try to maximize the color viewing.
And,
a little closer to home we’ll start seeing the scarecrows emerging from their
summer hiding spots and begin to make their way around Ellijay, the apple barns
will be operating in full swing and the town square will once again be decked
in festive fall décor. We will also
begin seeing additional activity of seasonal ‘leaf peepers’ making their way to
(and through) Ellijay to enjoy our piece of ‘God’s Country’.
With
fall also comes the Apple Festival – a
time of year that the merchants and craftsmen around the area so look forward
to. Tourists = $$$$$ and $$$$$ = a
healthy economy. I’ll be one of the
first people to complain about the additional traffic but I also know how
important our guests are to keeping Ellijay a viable and working town (and we
need help more now than ever).
So,
grab a bale of hale, some pumpkins, a glass of apple cider and get those fall
decorations in place because it is a good time to be living in the North
Georgia mountains, and a GREAT time to be living long the Coosawattee.
Till next time,
Chris
