This picture is probably the most symbolic of this autumn for me...this is the first shot I took this fall. It was October, 11th and I just wanted to go... I stopped by my mom's house and picked her up not really knowing where exactly we were headed but somewhere in the upper part of the sate where fall color had already began to peak. As we headed towards Canaan Valley, I told my mom this trip would be different from the others we had taken here...when I something I wanted to take a picture of I was going to stop right then...instead of saying we would stop on the way back...its always late so we never do. Stop and go driving is what we did the entire way through Canaan and Dolly Sods, so much so that it was almost dark by the time we reached Blackwater Falls. I had the most fun taking pictures this day than I had all fall.