Mineral Bluff: elevated

 

I am atypically at altitude,  2533', in northern Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains where we have rented a house for ten days.  As you can see the view north into North Carolina is spectacular.  Last evening while sitting on the deck sipping drinks Carol and I counted five separate ridge lines.  The place is quieter even than Skull Creek.  We came to escape some of the heat in the Low Country, but in fact it has not been bad there for the past week or so.  Upon our arrival yesterday afternoon I did my usual workout.  I wondered if I would be short of breath a half mile high.  I wasn't.  There are a few other houses nearby, but we have seen no other people.  We did see a deer walk down the road this morning.