Author: Blue Ridge Dreamer

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

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.” – Wallace Stevens Barbara Damrosch has a new column out. It seems to be timed to remind all the gardeners

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

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

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

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

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

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