A Fun Afternoon

 Strongheart and I had planned to go to the state park close by us last Saturday.  He had been gone for the majority of the day on Friday with his doctor appointment and then going to our church and taking care of the flowerbeds there as well as planting some new spring bulbs.  

When he came home, he suggested that we go to Coopers Rock that afternoon because the forecast was for rain that evening.  He felt that the rain would take the leaves off the trees and the main reason we were going was because a friend had told me she'd heard that the leaves were at their peak.

I thought I would share some of the pictures from that afternoon.

This was taken from the overlook.  

There were some shadows, so the colors don't all pop.

But this is overlooking the Cheat River.

There are two overlooks...with one being much larger than the other.

Strongheart took this one from the smaller of the two overlooks as the larger one was filled with people!

He took this one from the larger overlook. 

The colors really were beautiful.

A better view of Cheat River

The sun was in my eyes, so there's a bit of squinting going on,

but this entire outlook is designed around this huge rock...

Coopers Rock State Park.

This tree was exceptionally beautiful.

This is the last picture that he took and it's in the parking lot.

The sun was shining, and the colors were vibrant.

From there we walked down to the Trading Post and looked at all of their expensive "souvenirs" and was about to walk out the door when Strongheart spotted their bin of carved walking sticks.  I had told him earlier that I wanted to get one for when we hike trails, and he graciously asked me to pick out the one I wanted.

After that, he took me to our favorite spot to eat when we are in town.  We had a delicious dinner and then came home.  It was a special time all the way round.