How to Preserve Fall Leaves

Just before we left on our trip, someone asked Terry to bring home some fall leaves from NC and I actually remembered to do it.  The last day we were there I took a Ziploc bag on our walk downtown for lunch and gathered a dozen or so leaves of various colors.  Red, green, brown, golden, orange and shades in between.

After collecting so many beautiful colors, I didn't want them to go to waste, so I'm preserving them in a solution of glycerin and water.  Have you ever done that?  When we were kids we used to press them in books and iron them between sheets of wax paper, but I've heard that the glycerin process works much better.

I need to leave them in this solution for 3 or more days.  I hope they look almost as beautiful when they're done as they did when I picked them.

In case you're interested here's a description of how to preserve leaves in several different ways.

North Carolina Vacation Pics - Biltmore Estate and Hendersonville

Biltmore Estate - Asheville, North Carolina

Father and Son at Dupont State Park

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We're enjoying Fall in North Carolina!

For those few people out there that check my blog but are NOT on Facebook, here's a link to some photos that I've been posting of our trip to see Terry's Dad and his wife, Ginny in Hendersonville, NC.  This is them in the photo (left).  They do a lot of walking around town.  They live less than a mile from Main Street, so have access to a bunch of fun places to visit when they're out and about.

Tomorrow  we'll drive to Great Smoky Mountain National Park.  The park is celebrating their 75th Anniversary this year.  I will be taking my National Parks passport book to get stamped and we'll try to find a poster or postcard from the park that we can include in our collection of places that we've visited that hangs in our office. 

Check out these gorgeous red leaves that were on a tree right on main street.  Aren't they amazing?

I hope you enjoy the other pics too.  I'm trying to post a few more each day, so check back again later too.