The Story, Or One Of Them, Of Hoots Holler

So last week I promised fall photos on this weeks blog post.  

I went out with the camera and took a pile of shots around the Holler.

But I have to say, I made a mistake when I went on errands this morning. I didn't bring along the camera. 

Compared to todays color fest last week was slightly lame!

This weekend, for sure, I will take the fall photos everyone is waiting for. In the mean time 
critter control was here. Squirrels in the attic. 

He asked me if I hunt. Then asked if I have ever eaten squirrel. I think I got his drift. Shoot them!

"But who will live in the out buildings" I ask, tongue in cheek. 

Under his breath I heard him mumble hillbilly. I said, "we live in the holler!" He said, "yes you do"!

Many years ago, when I started coming around the Holler, it was in the dead of winter with snow up to my chin. I remember thinking this place is charming.

The boyfriend said, "really I'm a hillbilly". Then spring came, I was in love and the snow melted away. I saw a house that needed finishing and an old Jayco down in trailer camp. That is when I realized I was going to marry this feller.

We will finish what he stared, as a young pup. In the meantime I plant flowers and sweep the flagstone walk pretty. 

When you live in the woods things are constantly decaying. It can't be helped. If you live under a canopy of foliage, the spiders and snakes come to visit along with the squirrels and Porcupines. So they all need a place to live! 
 

Not much fall color here! A humongous Bullfrog lives in this garden. You should hear him. Ribbit ribbit in his deep gravely vocals. 

I hope the Garter snakes didn't eat him!

When I go to customers homes and everything is picture perfect. I wonder what they think when they come to the studio?

One year I had a lady who had brought her husband and young children all the way from Alexandera VA. I pointed to the path, into the woods, and said, "you are welcomed to take a walk and pick the wild blackberries!" "There are some very old buildings on the property, probably from the Civil War!" Didn't  want them to think I was a hillbilly when I am selling his wife 36 yards of Thibaut fabric for window treatments!!

This is what you will find behind the sign! 

I promise, next week, photos of the most spectacular fall color the peninsula has ever displayed!

I am not making this up!