North Carolina Mountain Articles

In South Texas where my Grandpa Sewell was raised, snakes are a big deal…A really BIG deal. Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes of six feet and longer are common. In the summer and fall 0f 1972, when…

From Verlyn Klinkenborg of The New York Times comes this paragraph today… Nearly every image of nature I have ever come across misses the sense of intricate confusion underfoot in the woods, the thickets of…

I have a lot to be thankful for in this past year.It was a little over a year ago that I stumbled into the online Floyd County community and met (virtually) Fred, Colleen, Doug and…

Riding the Ferry on Galveston BayOf all of the photo’s from this year, this is the one the snaps…The printed version in my office always gets a positive response.

As I run out the clock on 2006 with some time off at home I find myself falling into my old (very old) ways of late nights and sleeping in mornings. I hope everyone out…

“‘Tis the morning of Christmasand all through the housenot a creature is stirringnot even my spouse”As I sit this morning drinking my coffee and enjoying the still, quiet house I can’t help but remember Christmas’…

As I was looking at my blogger dashboard the other day I noticed I was coming up on an anniversary of sorts and this post is it…This post is number 200 on this blog. That…

For some reason, it always amazes me to stumble across someone who understands the internet (or at least the way I think it should work). Dick Eastman, who writes online genealogy articles, pointed the way…

Is it jut me or is George Will seeming a bit testy over blogger? Have too many bloggers (both us amateurs and the his professional colleges) called him to task over his reporting on the Webb…

For those of us who are weight challenged, this could explain why eating salads for ever don’t make a big difference in your weight…  Obese people have more digestive microbes that are especially efficient at extracting calories…

Reflections from a weekend past…Friday afternoon I made a run south to the Brazoria NWR, I left the house about 3pm in sunshine and scattered clouds, by the time I arrived the fog was so…

As strange as it may sound, our land line phones cannot get a dial tone but dsl is working intermittently. The problem has been reported to AT&T and they are guaranteeing resolution by 7pm tomorrow….

 This morning’s email brought the latest issue of Ladybug Letter from Mariquita Farm. A little exploring on their site led me to this article. I was going to extract the list headlines but it made…

I find myself sitting here with my coffee, already through the mornings emails and nothing caught my interest enough to comment on.I’ve already visited my morning blogroll in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I followed Marie…

If you’ve never tried the site, check out Kitchen Gardens International…  Wendell Berry on the “industrial eater” “The industrial eater is, in fact, one who does not know that eating is an agricultural act, who…