Day Trip to Charlottesville

We took a trip today to Charlottesville to visit Jefferson's Monticello. It was beautiful with all of the fall colors. Only thing that'd have made it better would've been a blue sky! But, despite the somewhat dreary, overcast weather, we can't complain since at least it didn't start raining until we got in the car and began to drive away (yes, the timing was that perfect). We kind of missed Halloween/trick-or-treating, but then, we don't usually have many more than 2-3 trick-or-treater clusters in our neighborhood anyway. So, that's okay - the Starbucks pumpkin spice lattes were sufficient celebration of Halloween, I think :)

Enjoy these pictures, and try to imagine the colors about 10 times more brilliant (the pictures really don't do them justice - not sure if it's my camera or if the lighting was just bad from the overcast sky!).

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