{"id":253,"date":"2010-11-02T07:16:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T11:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2010-11-12T23:35:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T03:35:30","slug":"fall-in-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Fall in North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my best bud Carl (left) and me.\u00a0 We recently visited the Highlands and Cashiers areas of North Carolina to shoot streams and autumn colors.\u00a0 Highlands and Cashiers are about an hour south of Asheville.\u00a0 The area is a stunningly beautiful part of the state, lined with rolling hills and mountains and a wonderful array of waterfalls.\u00a0 Roads are narrow and winding with a small town feel, and the people are kind and warm.<\/p>\n<p>Our weather was perfect.\u00a0 Evenings dipped to around 40F, while the daytime temperatures hit 60-65F with sunny skies.\u00a0 Each day was filled with tons of hiking and photographing.\u00a0 Hiking was quite strenuous, not necessarily from length or elevation, but from venturing off trails and into remote areas.\u00a0 The forest underbrush was about as thick as I have seen, filled with logs and rhododendrons.\u00a0 And our stream adventures required scaling large boulders and slippery rocks.<\/p>\n<p>This image was taken at Glen Falls.\u00a0 I will be posting several landscape images from the trip over the next couple of weeks.\u00a0 Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for a great time, Carl!\u00a0 It was the perfect combination of friendship, hiking, and photography.\u00a0 By the way &#8211; keep your boots on, would you!?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_268\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-268\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-268\" title=\"NC10_344\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/NC10_344-466x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/NC10_344-466x700.jpg 466w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/NC10_344-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/NC10_344.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carl and Mark @ Glen Falls; Highlands, NC<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my best bud Carl (left) and me.\u00a0 We recently visited the Highlands and Cashiers areas of North Carolina to shoot streams and autumn colors.\u00a0 Highlands and Cashiers are about an hour south of Asheville.\u00a0 The area is a stunningly beautiful part of the state, lined with rolling hills and mountains and a wonderful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}