Appalachian Mountain Dreams

A walk into spring…

No Direction Home: “Looking south on Sparks Lane from the Abrams Creek ford shown below.” This Photo on fletch’s blog really makes me wish I was close enough to take a stroll…When I first saw it this week it reminded me of some of the roads I’ve visited. Springtime and a country road… No Direction Home is another blog I

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WHERE I’M FROM

Fred First asks “Where Are You from?” and adds a template to help answer the question . Check out his page and make your own life poem. Where I’M From by Gary Boyd I am from books by the dozen that started me dreaming, from Lava Soap and bare feet in summer always dirty.I am from the Deep South, coastal

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Valle Crucis

Watauga County North Carolina (I originally published this on my genealogy site a while back) I don’t remember what it was that first pulled me to Valle Crucis when I was planning our 2003 Vacation. I had fallen in love with the Blue Ridge Mountains on my Charlotte trip in 2000. During that trip I had cruised from Blowing Rock

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