Mountain Garden

Beautiful flowers lining the garden

Sun flowers inside the garden

yes, that's a beet!!!!

The prettiest Dahlias I've ever seen. 

The first evening that we were at Dottie/Gary's we walked up to the neighbors.  The last house on the road on top of the mountain.  They don't live there year round.  They live in Atlanta.  There is a care taker named Hayes who over looks the land, houses and garden.  It was all amazing.  Especially the garden!  I must have been wonderful this summer before it was all harvested.  There still were potatoes, spaghetti squash, beets, beans, peppers and the prettiest dahlias I have ever seen.  They lined the wooden slatted fence around the whole garden.  There were also a couple of grape arbors, full of grapes.  Hayes stopped by the house a couple of times with his arms loaded with veggies and a huge bunch of fresh basil, for us.  He would open the gate in front of the house in the mornings and would close and lock it back up before dark .It made it nice that we didn't have to make sure the gate was closed and locked at night.   Melanie would hang her mail she wrote to her kids and grand kids on the gate, in a plastic bag and Hayes would take it down the mountain and drop it off at the post office for her. There is no mail service on the mountain.  We ended up only going down the mountain three times in the two weeks.  We took lots of projects to keep us busy.