North Carolina Mountain Articles

Monday Coffee ReadsIf nothing else, this op-ed from the Washington Post has one of the best lines on the Bush Administration and Climate Change I have seen in a while.Changing Climate on Climate – washingtonpost.com:…

After sleeping in, on this fall back Sunday, I spent the morning doing the email, political blog rant, cussing Blogger errors kind of thing. Then I did the morning talk shows before turning my interest…

Even in Texas we get one tree out of 20 – 30 acres that will show fall coloring this time of year… The only real problem is…It’s tough to hold the camera steady as you beat…

Over coffee this morning I was checking out my email. Had a couple from Colleen, which made my day ‘cause it means I’m not just blathering out into cyberspace to myself. She pointed me to…

My North Carolina Mountain Dream began in the spring of 2000 while on a two week business trip to Charlotte, NC. In the middle of the trip I had a couple free days and a…

Sorry for my absence, if anyone noticed. I never know how many readers might actually lurk out there (if any). It has been a long week at work, I am behind and getting even further…

On the way home from the hospital the proud parents stopped by for a visit. Of course they brought the bundle of joy…Grandma, Great-Aunt, and MotherProud Papa…It’s been a long day…Grandpa and Logan, all tuckered…

Logan Christopher BoydOctober 19, 2006It’s official I’m over the hill. Just call me Grandpa…

An excerpt from todays “The Writer’s Almanac”. Go read the whole poem or listen to Garrison Kieillor read it…The Writer’s Almanac from American Public Media:”MapA hill, a farm,A forest, and a valley.Half a hill plowed,…

The rain I spoke about on Monday really caused problems on Tuesday. You have to understand, the rain stopped on Monday evening before sundown but the waters kept rising. My Tuesday morning commute was compounded…

You really have to enjoy rain when you live on the SE coast of Texas. It doesn’t rain all the time, as a matter of fact, we’ve been through a bit of a dry spell….

Michael Pollan had an article in the New York Times that spells out many reasons for locally grown food. Writing about the recent E. coli contamination he had this to say…The Vegetable-Industrial Complex – New…

About the only tree around here that is beginning to show fall colors is this little maple in the yard next door. I used a bit of flash to bring out the colors against the…

My Grandpa Sewell always thought 13 was his lucky number. His place in Orchard, TX was 2.13 acres by deed. The “ranch” he bought before he retired was 213 acres…maybe 213 should have been his…

It seems the morning email list is beginning to follow a pattern. The first couple of emails concern my blog traffic (and yes I do look), followed by my My-Cast Weather Report, followed by the…