The clouds lifted, the sun came out, and round 3:30pm, I said to Bunny, “Let's go to Pretty Place!”
Pretty place, aka (also known as) The Fred W. Symmes Chapel [1], is a church up on the side of a mountain, just across the North Carolina/South Carolina state line. 11 miles (18km) “as the crow flies” from The Bromfield Inn [2], or 17½m (28km) as the car drives. And I implore you, gentle reader, to check the link out, to get into the mind set Bunny and I were in as we headed out to Pretty Place.
Little did we expect fog. One minute, it was sunny. Then we rounded a bend and:
[Thick fog. Think pea soup fog. Visibility measured in yards (meters).] This isn't 7:00am, but 4:00pm, up in the mountains of South Carolina. [3]
The last time I encountered fog this thick it was the late 90s, I was driving along Florida state 60 doing 70mph (110kmh) at 1:30am trying desperately to avoid a semi-truck reenacting “The Duel [4]”. And the time before that I was in elementary school, being driven to Brevard Elementary School [5] by my mom. But this? Today? This took us completely by surprise.
It gave the entire place this ethereal feel to it:
[Trees and fog near the top of a staircase.] You can't see the forest for the fog. [6] [Trees with orange leaves, engulfed in fog.] It's the elves. It has to be the elves doing this. [7]
And then we entered the chapel and were greeted with:
[The pews, the Cross, and the expansive moutain view swallowed up in white.] I figured there'd be more harp playing than there was. As it was, it was quiet. And unearlthly. Wow! [8] [9]
It was surreal. You look out, and there's nothing but this white void.
[The Cross holding back the white nothingness beyond.] Not much to say, really. [10]
Driving back down, the fog just … vanished … just as quickly as we entered it going up.
[1] https://www.campgreenville.org/pretty-place/
[2] https://thebromfieldinn.com/
[3] /boston/2022/10/31/Road.jpg
[4] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067023/
[6] /boston/2022/10/31/Threshold.jpg
[7] /boston/2022/10/31/Trees.jpg
[8] /boston/2022/10/31/thumb-Church.jpg
[9] /boston/2022/10/31/Church.jpg
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