Mary and I went back up into the mountains to attend the season finale of Brevard Music Center's summer music program. They were performing Sea Symphony of Vaughan Williams, which I love very much!
We stayed at a bed an breakfast - not an AirBnb - tucked up in the mountains in Hendersonville, just to see a different town than our last trip into western NC. It was charming!
...although sadly, as Mary and I agreed, neither the Bed nor the Breakfast were all that great. But boy, it had the charm.
We spent the afternoon on Saturday poking around Hendersonville, seeing some shops and walking up and down the main street, known as - wait for it - Main Street:
Dinner followed at the Tipsy Taco:
And a small treat at Ecusta, a kind of coffee-shop-plus-bougie-grocery-store:
and we made an attempt to see the view at Jump Off Rock, but...
...the fogginess dogged us throughout our short stay.
The next day the fogginess had turned to full on drizzle, which impeded our attempt to see the Carl Sandburg home - you've gotta walk about half a mile to get to it no matter where you park, so we ditched that plan:
We got to Brevard and re-tread some of the ground we'd covered back in March, including Looking Glass Falls and O.P. Taylor's toy store:
What was really poignant about this for me was that last time we came to Brevard, it was new to me, but familiar to Mary; now we both have a fond memory of this place. Now I can experience returning to a place that's special with her; I can feel what it's like to "come back" there.
And before you knew it, the concert was done, and a parade of people fought to get out of the parking lot all at once. But I doubt most of them had the couple-hour journey we had ahead of them, to get back home before dark.
