North Carolina Mountain Articles

I was reading what President Bush had to say in the Rose Garden yesterday. The dichotomy between what he says and what is happening has always been a factor with this man. From the days…

Last week in a column Leon Hale had a lot to say about dirt backroads of Texas. This week I have photos…Too bad Kinky Friedman didn’t win the governor’s race. I intended to go to…

In yesterday’s post I mentioned the possibility of a road trip. The weather stayed iffy even as we left the house at Noon. The wife, youngest daughter and I piled into the car and hit…

Happy April Fools Day…Welcome to National Poetry Month.I had planned to run over to Austin today for the Zilker Garden Festival…I think the creek done rose. After all of the rain we had yesterday and…

This old man was up later than usual last evening waiting to pick up the youngest from her job at the Taco emporium (Texas style fast food) so I really looked forward to sawing logs…

This list came from Julia and Andy’s Website. I discovered them last year during the spinach and e coli problem. Andy wrote an article about why he took himself out of the packaged greens distribution…

I have been following Fred’s posts on sustainable forestry (links here and here)the past week or so, so when I say a link to the following on The Appalachian Voice Front Porch Blog it forced…

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes..I am sitting here looking at a blank screen and finding I have no ideas…

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.” – Wallace StevensBarbara Damrosch has a new column out. It seems to be timed to remind all the gardeners out there to start thinking tomatoes….

And we need to stay here why? When the police start killing people in revenge… BAGHDAD — Shiite militants and police enraged by massive truck bombings in Tal Afar went on a revenge spree against Sunni…

Today for lunch I joined a friend I’ve never met. We walked along a creek with no name under hemlocks in a valley I’ve never seen. We passed a barn I’ve only envisioned in painted…

Since I didn’t mention the weather earlier today, I found this bit of trivia interesting. Boone set another record high Wednesday: 74 breaking the old record of 71 set in 1949. Today, valley locations should…

I empathize with the sentiment if not the actual want… Costal Farmlet”A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.” —ChekhovI want a costal farmlet.I desire it very much.I saw it advertisedin the classifieds…

With all of the rhetoric flying around Washington these days, with the President claiming that if you don’t support the surge you don’t support the troops, with Congress fighting over when to end the fighting…

Ok, I know that everyone in NW North Carolina and SW Virginia are quite happy with the temperatures after this past winter…But (you knew there would be a but), what’s this with it being just…