Update on the GWNF's Storybook Trail

My theme quote for breakfast at New Market's Southern Kitchen is now, "I'm not in it for the bread.  I'm in it for the gravy."  This is because they will substitute the toast that normally comes with the western omelet for biscuits.  Then you can get the side order of sausage gravy to go with it...

That's how we started off our Sunday morning this weekend.  The Southern Kitchen is a favorite I have written about before, and even though they are in New Market, the posts are filed under the "Page County Restaurants" label.

But the real story of this post is that we stopped off on the way back to take a short hike along the Story Book Trail - a little day hike to an overlook just off Crissman Hollow Road in GWNF.  We had a couple of nice treats there:  the view was clear, and the path has had some upgrades done to it recently.  It was a very pleasant short walk.

Mary spotted this little black rat snake - well, a four feet it was little in terms of only being half the size of the one she kept finding in the laundry room two years ago - you can just see its head on the rock near the center of the photo.  No dry heaves for her this time, as she found that she is comfortable encountering snakes in their habitat, but prefers not to find them in the house.

http://hawksbillcabin.blogspot.com/2008/04/snake-in-laundry.html

I actually wanted to make the stop and get out for a walk on Sunday because I have some new Vasque VST trail runners from AOA I wanted to break in - more about those later in the week.