293/365: "Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree." ~ Emily Brontë

2 more pictures in notes above! :)

I am about to fall asleep from sheer exhaustion!! I'm such a baby! :D I haven't been on my bike for about six weeks and I'm totally out of shape for riding. So of course, when Steve and I decided to go on a bike ride today, we didn't go a reasonable distance like a 10 or 15 mile ride. Instead, we went on a 28-mile ride with enough hills on the first half that I was trembling from the exertion! (How embarrassing! :D) We rode from a little town near us called Gold Hill to a popular tourist town, Jacksonville, and back again...and wow...my poor body is calling for a strike and wants me to go to sleep and rest from all of this activity! :D *yawn* However, we really did have a lovely time and enjoyed the beautiful autumn landscape along the way. In Jacksonville, we stopped and had lunch and iced coffee, and then rode over to the library there, which had many stunning maple trees in front, covered with leaves of all the autumn colors. We had a wonderful time taking pictures, and this one is my favorite, a fallen beauty lit up by the sun!

Emily Jane Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell. Wikipedia: Emily Brontë

Explored on October 21, 2013. Highest placement, page 3.