As much as I remember starting the days we've spent up on the mountains watching the fog rise out of the valleys and burn off, it seems the fogs of home have been more prevalent this year. Leaving the house to go to work each day brings me face to…
For the first time in a week the temperature as I enter the kitchen isn't in the 4o's. It looks like our winter preview is over for a while...Hello autumn and 70° highs once again. ++++++++++ The invariable mark of wisdom is seeing the miraculous in the common. - Ralph…
Thanksgiving Day was the last decent weather day we had through the long holiday weekend. Friday, Saturday and Sunday were all wet, windy and cold. Most decidedly cold for the wife. Forty degree weather in this neck of the woods qualifies as winter, not fall, so throw in the rain…
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We wandered over to my mother's house about noon on Thursday carrying our contribution to the feast. Both of my brothers were already there. Of my sisters one had arrived and one was running late...So far everything was normal for the day.…
May you have a great day giving thanks with kith and kin. Enjoy being with those you love if you can. Have some pie for me...I'll be trying to refrain from indulging. For all of those whose turkey carving skills rank up there with my own, you may want to…
The Floyd Country Store on a frosty Sunday morning. The Jacksonville Cemetery in the foreground. The Barbershop... The Stoplight... Farmer's Supply... Oddfella's Cantina...
You know it's time to go back to work when you get up and the weather outside has turned back to Texas. It's 65° with a humidity of 97%. In other words, looking outside right now you can see the air under the neighbors night lights. The prognosticators are predicting…
I passed this old farm as we drove south on the Blue Ridge Parkway from Floyd to Boone. I nestled down a bit off the road behind a line of round hay bales. Just enough of a glimpse out of the passenger side window to force me to turn around…
This week's challenge: 'Travel'. Eight States, ten Days, 1750 miles, five hotel rooms, from heat to freezing to fall comfortable to snow to fall comfortable. That's Travel...And here's my Vacation Slideshow for proof... . Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to…
Pushed through to home last night and arrived about 10pm...I see why I have a love/hate relationship with the American Interstate Road system. While they let you cover immense distances in a single day they are essentially...boring. Long corridors through the countryside, shut off from the real world by a…
One of the places I have tried to hit in North Carolina for a number of years has been Roaring Creek off of 19E out of Elk Park. Roaring Creek tumbles off the southeast side of Roan Mountain feeding the North Toe River. Each year something has come up to…
I cannot complain about the weather here in northwestern North Carolina on this autumn day. The rain, light as it is, is desperately needed. But it sure puts a "damp-er" on the quest for pictographs. Of course any trip to this area by the Boyd's means a stop at the…
As we left Virginia behind today Mother Nature gave me a perfect picture postcard view of Mabry Mill. Actually the two colorful trees in the background are about the only two left in the vicinity with much color but they were in the right place at the right time for…
A while back I wrote a review for Fred First's, A Slow Road Home, at the time we had only met on the pages of each others blogs and through the exchange of emails. This is what I wrote back then... Today for lunch I joined a friend I've never…
Driving South on the Parkway through Humpback Rocks brought a surprise this afternoon... It must have come down pretty good overnight since it had been melting for a while by the time we got there. But everyone traveling up the Parkway was having a lot of fun playing in the…
We spent yesterday at Jefferson's Monticello... Today we head south down the Blue Ridge to a introduction to Floyd, Va...See ya down the road.
No not really. It just hit me that it made more sense to run the Interstate up to the terminus of our trip and then begin working our way south rather than vice versa. It should cut almost a days drive off the trip home this way... So yesterday was…
Sunrise this morning was spent at Craggy Gardens on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The weather was clear and cold. I didn't know how cold until I got back in the car to drive back down...The temperature was 19°. Here's what I saw as the sun came over the horizon... And…
I closed yesterday with a shot of sunset so lets open the day with the morning sunrise fro the other side of Asheville... Heading back to breakfast I stopped at the French Broad River Overlook and caught this... Now its time to get ready for the Biltmore Estate and any…
We drove into the darkness on Sunday to get to Birmingham. The only observations from the drive on Sunday were we both commented on how dry Mississippi looked. It was a noticeable change right at the state line. The roadside went from green in Louisiana to brown looking in Mississippi.…
I am just finishing up with email and all before I throw the final items (like this computer) into the car. We are hitting the road in the next hour or so for our first stop in or around Birmingham. We could probably go further but we don't have anything…
We've been running around trying to get ready to hit the road tomorrow, so posting here is down to a minimum. With any luck I'll be posting some autumn colors in the next week... In the meantime, you all have a great weekend and we'll catch ya down the road...In…
The mapping software I ordered from DeLorme arrived late on Wednesday night so Thursday morning was spent installing booth programs and checking the GPS receiver during my regular blogging time. I must say that what little time I've had to play with the software and the GPS sure has me…
I walked out of the house yesterday to see this sight... The color of the sky was so arresting I had to grab a shot. Then I waited to see the sun peak over the tree tops. This whole daylight saving time is screwy though...I shouldn't have to wait till…
There is a long but informative article on the effects of light on seasonal mood swings over on the Washington Post... Seeing the Light of Day Oh, the light! The autumn light! Is there anything more glorious than an October day, awash in the sun's low-slung amber rays? And yet…
The high yesterday afternoon (read in the car) was 72°. With the afternoon breeze, it felt just right.
Over the course of the last month or so I keep stumbling over videos from TED. This morning I came across a link which I watched . Then I went exploring...Here is one of the Talks I found interesting...Why don't you spend some time this weekend being inspired... Go explore…
Where once there was laughter...Silence This week's challenge: 'Silence'. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page that will always show your challenge image, and not your website's main page. Read this for more info. Reminder: Submit only one…
Two Pigs - Verlyn Klinkenborg - York Times Over the course of just a few generations (in my case just two) we have gone from a world where everyone knew where their food came from to a world where you really don't even know which continent supplied the ingredients in…
Our first Grandson had his first birthday party over the weekend and I finally managed to process some shots. The capture above was of him and his personal birthday cake...He had fun until he noticed everyone was watching and laughing... All of the little ones at the party seemed to…
