Saluda

The Purple Onion Cafe in Saluda serves a tasty goat cheese salad.
The Purple Onion Cafe in Saluda serves a tasty goat cheese salad.

I drove up to Saluda today to eat lunch at The Purple Onion and buy yet another Greg Hessel candlestick from Heartwood gallery.

The highlight of the trip, though, with all due respect to my goat cheese salad and Mr. Hessel’s hammered copper, was the drive itself. Bright gold and crimson canopies set against an azure sky, so beautiful at some bends in the road as to seem almost unreal.