Lazy Sunday Lost in the Fog

North Carolina shrouded itself in an invisible cloak of fog this morning. I had intended to take pictures of the brilliant pink blossoms of the pink dogwood trees this morning but Mother Nature fooled me. That, plus I drove to breakfast this morning instead of Denny and it's hard to drive and take pictures at the same time.

We didn't go out much this week--we've spent half the old pension check on diesel fuel this month so we're just hanging around the campground for a while. So I've had to dig into the archives for today's Lazy Sunday pictures and I decided to go really random today.

Without further ado, I give you today's Lazy Sunday photos:


Paulina Falls at the Newberry Volcanic National Monument near Bend, Oregon. The park was just a couple of miles from our campground and was fascinating for its beautiful lakes and huge swaths of obsidian from ancient volcanic flows of lava.


I named this picture "Bubbling Rocks". It was taken in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation area near Hurricane, Utah where we were doing some geocaching (unsuccessfully for that particular spot).


Denny and I took the water taxi to the Indian Casino on Lake Havasu one day. There was some sort of race being held for SeaDoos, which was very colorful and very noisy.


This is a quiet seating area that has been created by someone here at our current campground. They have planted azaleas and other flowering bushes and have taken great pains to make a nice spot to stop and "smell the roses".


The Thousand Trails membership parks are called "preserves" because they try to create a campground within a natural area without disturbing too much of the original surroundings. This tobacco barn remains here carefully preserved. Tobacco barns are painted black to draw the heat of the sun which helps cure the tobacco as it hangs in sheaves within the barn. (You just learned something, didn't you?)


White flowering dogwood abounds here in south. The bridge traversing the small fishing pond here at the campground allows me to drag Denny even farther on our evening walk.


One of the most impressive tourist attractions of our travels: The Biltmore House in Ashville, North Carolina. We visited here years ago in early spring before the trees and magnificent flower gardens were in bloom and I'd love to go back to see the gardens. And again at Christmas time, because I've heard the candlelight tour of the house is fabulous.


A close up shot of some of the statuary decorating the exterior walls of the Biltmore House. The bricks for the home were made on the grounds, the home had the first indoor bathrooms and the innovations for the time period were amazing and incredibly expensive.