We took advantage of running on the Blue Ridge Parkway today since it was closed due to our recent ice storm. The key to running on the Parkway is to time it so the road's not cleared off enough to be open for traffic and yet cleared off enough to be runnable.
The Mountains to Sea trail was like a stream of ice...
Most of the Parkway was clear with several patches of ice, but still areas where we could get around it...
This is an old service road that leads up to the top of Busbee Mountain. It's on a portion that's owned by the Biltmore Properties and just up the road from here, it's fenced off. It's no secret to Bart that some day I want to get around the fence and head to the top of the mountain on this road...
Off the side of the parkway, we came across this beautiful discarded Christmas Tree still hanging on to its needles and beautiful green color, so we decided to prop it up and sing, "O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree, how lovely are your branches!"
The moss is hanging on to its beautiful green color also...
We were just commenting of how we felt like we had the entire road to ourselves, when out of the blue...
...there's Paul and his shiny new Garmin. We're not going to talk about what happened to the old one. Bart's saying, "Hey, I got one just like yours!"
...and Annette and two of their doggies and some good old fashioned doggie meet and greet! (sorry I cut your head off Annette)
...and a short break to get a snuggle hug from the boy.
The boys get down to business as we head for home...
lets get er done...
When we got home, we wrapped it all up with delicious recovery smoothie. Mmmmm, this was a perfect day!
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