Susie Blackmon-Maggie Valley Waynesville Horse Person/NC Broker/Realtor

According to many, the most photographed view in the Smokies is in Maggie Valley.

Early in the evening of October 21st I drove to the 'lookout' on the road out of Maggie Valley (Highway 19) heading toward Cherokee … known as the “most photographed view in the Smokies.” The Soco Craft building at the lookout is closed, but every time I drive by there I think about what a great location it would be for a restaurant serving delicious food.

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By Susie Blackmon

Original posted on Bucking the Real Estate Trend.

No matter who you are, you will have a very hard time getting out of Cabbage Rose (1) unscathed or (2) quickly!! BE WARNED: Gigantic Christmas section … ornaments and decorations galore ... year-round.

Cabbage Rose was closed the other night when I was taking pictures (thank goodness), but I can’t wait to visit them again to see their new Christmas ornaments. The Christmas section alone is worth a visit or three.

Cabbage Rose is right next to the Festival Grounds and Guayabitos, and right across from Market Square.

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Just before the sun disappeared the other day, I took a few photos of our little shopping mall, Market Square. Wore me out... so I had to stop by the ice cream shop at the mall to get the energy to get home.

Market Square is very easy to find on Soco Road (Highway 19), right across from Cabbage Rose, Guayabitos, and the Festival Grounds.

You can find unique gift shops, tee shirt stores, candy stores, coffee shops, scrapbooking supplies, jewelry stores, real estate offices, an ice cream parlor, and a photography shop to have your 'mountain man' photos taken.

(These photos were taken Monday evening, 10/19.)

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The 2009 Apple Harvest Festival Saturday, on Downtown Waynesville’s Main Street, was festive and very 'crisp,' with people bundled in jackets, carrying umbrellas (umbrellas are scary things when you like to wear wigs), and sampling all the yummy festival food.

Like to eat apples, fudge, sizzling sausages, turkey legs, and Holy Smoke barbecue? I tasted, among other things, the ‘finished’ molasses product extracted by the gentleman in the video feeding sorghum into a press, and would love to have a jar of fresh molasses for myself (he wasn’t selling any). What a difference between ‘fresh’ and store-bought molasses.

I'm in search of the recipe for the blue ribbon winner of the “2009 Apple Bake-Off” (see the video below).

WARNING: You might be very hungry after watching this video.

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• 2009 Apple Harvest Festival in Historic Downtown Waynesville – 10/17/09.
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• 2008 Apples and Leaves…

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Winter's first dusting of snow fell at the higher levels last night. I'm jealous! This photo was taken around 7:00 this morning.

Of Interest from last week:

• On No! Balsam Mountain Preserve facing foreclosure.
• Gary Vaynerchuk talks about Gourmet Magazine ... Where do all the advertisers go?
• Realty Check with Diana Olick.

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