Appalachian Mountain Dreams

Last week in a column Leon Hale had a lot to say about dirt backroads of Texas. This week I have photos… Too bad Kinky Friedman didn’t win the governor’s

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In yesterday’s post I mentioned the possibility of a road trip. The weather stayed iffy even as we left the house at Noon. The wife, youngest daughter and I piled

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Happy April Fools Day…Welcome to National Poetry Month. I had planned to run over to Austin today for the Zilker Garden Festival…I think the creek done rose. After all of

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This old man was up later than usual last evening waiting to pick up the youngest from her job at the Taco emporium (Texas style fast food) so I really

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This list came from Julia and Andy’s Website. I discovered them last year during the spinach and e coli problem. Andy wrote an article about why he took himself out

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I have been following Fred’s posts on sustainable forestry (links here and here)the past week or so, so when I say a link to the following on The Appalachian Voice

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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

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“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

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