It always happens like this - we're wandering back to Ga., thinking it's all over, sigh, and then we stumble on yet another hidden gem. This time, it was a little scribble on the Atlas up in the top of MD., just beneath PA. and not far from W.VA. Penn Alps, an artists community created to promote the artists and craftspeople of the Allegheny Mts., set in spruce-studded mountains and also featuring a man-made historic icon, as well. It reminded us of the Foxfire Village.
The above-mentioned icon, the Casselman Bridge, a stone arch bridge; the longest single span bridge existing on the National Road after it was built in 1813 and a photographer's dream.
Fall was, well, falling up in Canada, Maine and even in places in New England, so we get to experience two autumns this year!
Leaving Penn Alps and thinking that well, guess that's it for this trip, my brother in law suggests stopping at Blenko Glass Factory in southern W. Va., since it's almost to Ky, our eventual goal, so of course, we do so.
Another WOW moment. Although most of us associate Blenko with blown glass vases, the square water jug and pressed glass, they feature a gift shop, a factory tour and a small exhibit with some of the most exquisite stained glass we've ever seen.
The colors are spectacular in all these works of art, but gotta tell ya....
...the dump pile ain't bad, either!
The spouts, handles and other scraps of glass snipped, peeled or broken off the glittering products create quite a treasure, themselves.
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