Hiking at the Knob...

Sunday morning was ranked up there with the best of them, even though I toted around a slight hangover from the night before. After a super, greasy, super-greasy down home breakfast from Tex's complete with the best homefries in the world we ventured to Stuart's Knob for a little hiking, hand holding, calorie burning, and fairystone hunting with Chris and Lacey.

The Legend of the Fairy Stone: Many hundreds of years before Chief Powhatan’s reign, fairies were dancing around a spring of water, playing with naiads and wood nymphs, when an elfin messenger arrived from a city far away. He brought news of the death of Christ. When these creatures of the forest heard the story of the crucifixion, they wept. As their tears fell upon the earth, they crystallized to form beautiful crosses.

Although we had no luck finding any precious cross shaped stones... it was a decent workout, cotton candy bubble gum was chewed, and bob marley was sung so I can't complain. Plus, how can you not have fun when engrossing yourself in such a tale! I truly cannot wait until Haley and Cameron are a bit older and we can take them fairystone hunting. There's always an extra bit of magic in the air when kids are involved.

Perhaps my favorite part of the entire trip was enjoying the leaves. I find them so captivating at this time of year. Though most of them have fallen by this point, the random clusters of them we spotted every now and again were recieved like little gifts from the earth. Aren't their tiny lives one of nature's sweet ironies? To beam so brightly and be so full of color right before they fall to the ground...









I believe a mandatory trip is due the day after thanksgiving! ;)