Author: Blue Ridge Dreamer

Everyone down here keeps saying it looks a lot like spring…but…Folks, if it ain’t spring someone really needs to say something to the trees and flowers outside my house. The

I stumbled on Tom Philpott a long while back in connection to my interest in the Boone, NC area. He led me to Grist, where I’ve followed his articles weekly.

How about a quote to start the day… The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in

To all my friends on the Blue Ridges and points north…Throw another log on the fire, winter ain’t done with y’all yet. Here we switched to a breeze off the

I borrowed a new quote for the top of my sidebar last evening as I wandered the twisting trails of the blogs I read. I though the quote about the

Back in January I posted on a newspaper article out of Memphis about Felder Rushing and his concept of Slow Gardening. After that I stumbled across a link to a

But winter’s still hanging on.As the sun comes up this morning the field behind the house sparkles with one of the few frosts of this winter season. And this comes

 I started on Friday with Fragmented Fred and “Tale of a Farmer from Erehwon”, today Leon joined the game with his Poison Lion. Both tales have meanings that could teach