Thanks. My son, James, climbed to the top of the ridge just to be in position to take that shot when I passed by. James is a great photographer (pardon my bragging on my son).
Today is my Mother's birthday. She would have been 94 years old. Hard to believe she would be that old.
She's been gone over 22 years now, but I can still "hear" her voice. She was a good Mother, who always there whenever I needed her. My earliest memory is of my Mother singing to me when I...
I have been down the same road you are traveling, and had to make some of the same very difficult decisions. My heart goes out to both of you.
The only "good thing" that comes from all this is a special "closeness" that is shared. It is something that cannot be described, but is understood by...
I remember my Dad telling me that, when he was a boy (late 1920s and early 1930s), that "all the men would wear straw hats in the summer. Well, given that sage advice, I decided it was time to break out my straw boater and begin wearing it on a regular basis.
Thanks.
I'm about 40 or so miles from Mount Mitchell and hike there often. You are right, there's nothing quite like the smells of the fir forest at that high elevation. If you haven't been there in a while, you should come visit again. The fir trees, which were suffering greatly from the...
This past weekend, my wife and I took a nice four-mile hike down the mountain and through the Royal Gorge in Western NC on the Point Lookout Trail from Ridgecrest to Old Fort. The Point Lookout Trail follows the route of old NC 10 (that later became US 70). The road as a state highway was...
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