North Carolina Mountain Dreams

I guess I should enjoy these few short days of spring before summer really kicks…

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union,…

It looks like I am running a bit behind today…The sad thing is, I had…

Happiness is something we all hope for. May your Easter celebration bring you Peace and…

I sometimes feel like I am deceiving folks as they search the web. The theme…

More from Leon Hale’s Column last week along with more pictures of Sundays Country Road…

I was reading what President Bush had to say in the Rose Garden yesterday. The…

Last week in a column Leon Hale had a lot to say about dirt backroads…

In yesterday’s post I mentioned the possibility of a road trip. The weather stayed iffy…

Happy April Fools Day…Welcome to National Poetry Month.I had planned to run over to Austin…

This old man was up later than usual last evening waiting to pick up the…

This list came from Julia and Andy’s Website. I discovered them last year during the…

I have been following Fred’s posts on sustainable forestry (links here and here)the past week…

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its…

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.” – Wallace StevensBarbara Damrosch has…

And we need to stay here why? When the police start killing people in revenge… BAGHDAD…

Today for lunch I joined a friend I’ve never met. We walked along a creek…

Since I didn’t mention the weather earlier today, I found this bit of trivia interesting….

I empathize with the sentiment if not the actual want… Costal Farmlet”A man wants nothing…

With all of the rhetoric flying around Washington these days, with the President claiming that…

Ok, I know that everyone in NW North Carolina and SW Virginia are quite happy…

An observation started to penetrate my thick skull last week. Because of this vague, nagging…

Traffic ReportSeems like I got noticed yesterday. While I went about my normal Sunday business…

Fred First pointed a link at this article. Thanks Fred. The entire article is worth the…

As I sit this morning at the laptop this is the view out the window…

I am reading my emails this morning and when I saw the title of George…

I was reading email withe the NewsHour playing on the TV on Friday night when…

Marie just posted a photo from her deck above Valle Crucis…go check out the look…

From the Thursday paper… Is it just me, are is this really just a “duh”…

Walked out the front door this morning an the warm, heavy, still air reminded me…