holidays

After breakfast was delivered to the cabin we went over to the Blue Ridge Music Center, about a mile away. Run by the National Parks Service, the center has an outdoor amphitheater where bands play at weekends and a shop and visitor center selling local music and books. Every weekday they have local musicians playing outside the visitor center. We stayed for an hour to watch Bill and Maggie Anderson perform.

We ate a packed lunch, and then walked a circular trail from the visitor center. The trail climbed steeply at first through thick mixed woodland up Fisher’s Peak. We saw a small turtle by the side of the path. Later the trail dropped through meadows and crossed a few creeks in a marshy area. We got caught in the usual afternoon mountain rain-shower just before we got back to the car. We bought some CDs in the shop, and a DVD about mountain song collecting, and went back to the cabin, where we cooked steak for dinner, went in the hot tub and watched the DVD.