Orchard at Altapass

After leaving the country club, Goggle Maps Siri told us to go the the orchard a back way. When it stopped being paved, I turned around and chose the way I knew, up on the Blue Ridge Parkway, just past one overlook headed north, and there it was. Looking forward to apple pie a la mode...

 I enjoyed the pie and the music and watching others dance, as well as wonderful views of the blue ridge mountains. But first we had to sit in the car in line to get a parking place for 30 minutes on a narrow gravel road. We did finally park, and I left my phone camera in the car! I had a bit of withdrawal from my wanting to record everything. But I did get a few shots of old apple trees while on the road waiting.

Following this truck in line, sometimes a car would leave coming toward us as it left, billowing dust.

Looking downhill toward all the orchard trees

Looking uphill, all these old trees were covered with dust, but many had ripe apples hanging on them. The road above the one we were waiting on was the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Same shot before editing.

Here's a 2018 blog about the Orchard, and even one from 2013 with the old layout inside. It has built an entirely new building for the music and dancing venue...and is now selling apples on the ground floor of the main building. Never enough women's rest-rooms on a busy weekend. It would be fun to shop more on a weekday, but they had staff keeping the food and check-out line moving...and two new pies came out of the oven just when mine was due to be served. I put butter-pecan ice cream on mine, and Tim had Lemon Sorbet. Nice partnering of tastes!

Today's Quote:

You should respond with kindness toward evil done to you, and you will destroy in an evil person that pleasure which he derives from evil. -Tolstoy