I love Fall. College football on the weekends, great camping weather, leaves on the trees change colors, after a summer of shorts and t-shirts you change into jeans and sweaters, and the holidays. What time of the year is better? I'll probably think differently in the Spring but for right now Fall is going great.

I bring this because on my afternoon off last Friday, I drove to Mount Magazine to take some photographs of the towns on the up and also the sunset from the overlook. It is about a two hour drive there and I left kind of early so I had plenty of time to photograph some of the small towns’ rundown buildings. I seem to have remembered far more old buildings a couple of weeks ago when a group of friends and I went camping. Nevertheless I got a couple of good shots of an old tire dealer.

The main reason I went was for the sunset atop Mount Magazine. It was kind of an unsuccessful journey. Due to where the sun sets and the position of the overlook, the whole back side of the mountain and most the landscape was in shadow. In other words, not ideal for a good photograph. In hindsight, it will probably be better to go up for a sunrise so that the cliffs and valley are in the morning sun. Due to the wind up there my tripod would not stay steady either. Oh well, I did see a very pretty sunset and it was very cool seeing the progression of the leaves changing colors as they got farther down in the valley.

I doubt I will get to camp there another time this fall for a good sunrise, so I guess I will have to settle for next fall. The sunset however is great from the lodge side atop the mountain. Anyways, it was a good afternoon though not much success on photos.

For more from my drive check out my flickr site.