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Autumn on The East Coast

© Charlotte Spell

When I was younger I did a lot of traveling up and down the East Coast. The most beautiful place that I have seen is in Virginia on the Blue Ridge Parkway the last couple weeks in October. The foliage there is breath taking, as the leaves change from their summer green's to various shades like burnt orange on the walnut trees, chesnut brown's, yellow pouplar's, burgandy and red maples. It is almost as if the Angel's take paintbrushes and dot colors all over a landscape canvas.

There is squirrel that likes to visit outside the window of my office. He comes to the same spot every day and sits on the fence post. He shells his walnut that he has taken from the tree in my back yard. There are empty shells all over the ground below the tree where all of his friends are working hard to get their supplies ready for winter. It reminds me that soon it will be sweater weather here in Virginia. Time to sort through the clothers from summer and get ready for the cool Indian summer nights.

October will bring the fall festival at the park, which my family and I attend yearly. They have crafter's and those who are dressed as Civil War soilders to remind us that our local park played an important role in the war between the North and the South. There is also the Cherokee's that come to the festival every year they dance and tell stories about how the cherokee's came to the earth. The medicine man Red Hawk has been there several times over the last few years. It has become another family tradition. October, is also a good time of year to cook up a pot of Brunswick stew. There is a recipe for that in the links for this story. Hot choclolate is one of my family's favorite drinks on cold autumn mornings. There are several recipes for dishes that are favorites of my family for autumn listed among the links. Also, there are some sites where you can find the lastest information on the fall foliage schulde from the New England states to the Carolina's.

Living on the East coast, summers are spent enjoying the beach or just enjoying the weather and are spent outside. When autumn comes and swimming is no longer a good idea, romantic walks on the beach in a cardigan are. Drawing pictures in the sand with my granddaughter Desiree'. I even like to visit the beach in the winter when the river has iced over. Maybe, it was because I grew up on the James River, that i have such a love for the water. The autumn is the time that a lot of the local waterman from Deep Creek go to Maryland to do their oystering.