Category: North Carolina

Last year at this time we were on Nettles Knob south of Valle Crucis making our preparations for the Summer Games on Grandfather Mountain. The one thing that we missed

I have been tagged…You have probably seen this logo floating around, I know I have. Eric Drummond Smith over at Hillbilly Savants tagged me. It makes my day to think

I think it was Marie at Blue Ridge Blog that first pointed me to the Hillbilly Savants Blog. Since her tag line is…”All I need is an outhouse and a

Part of the serendipity that carried us into the mountains of North Carolina can be found in the following description I discovered so long ago. Nestled high in the mountains

I find that most of the places I have come to love in my search for my “North Carolina Mountain Dream” revolve around stories. Not just stories of the past,

From the top of the highest mountain in the eastern United States the view can be breathtaking. Already venerable when the Rockies were yet unformed, Mount Mitchell reigns as the

It’s been three years now since this picture was taken up on the top of Roan Mountain. We were a bit early for the full bloom but even what we

When I first started blogging I posted some photos from my North Carolina trips over my Photo Blog. One of the photos has consistently pulled in search engine hits. This