Perennial magic brought to us by warm weather and plentiful rain – May 2-12, 2018 FRESH ENOUGH TO SLAP Our first Fragrant Cloud of the season, captured in pixels by Tami. And Festiva Maxima, a peony showing gratitude for its new home beside its brothers and sisters. In 2010 we bought five peony […]
Music and friends at Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance – Saturday, May 5, 2018 WE COME FOR THE MUSIC Rising Appalachia is one of fifty bands that performed at this year’s spring music festival. If you have not heard their music, you are in for a treat! AND STAY FOR THE
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Peonies popping, construction at home and work signalling a new era, torching the old pampas grass to make way for new growth, stocking the freezer with six months of Sunday cutlets, horses, flowers, frogs, mulch, and lunch out on the town. April was seething with optimism; a perfect example of spring! R.I.P. TAMI TANK
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This month we plant seeds to put under lights in the back room, visit Camille’s family in Pennsylvania, host the first stop of the annual trail crawl, explore Hemlock Bluffs, and set back to watch the pears and red buds put on their show. SEEDING FLATS A hopeful endeavor that signals a season
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A delightful spring tradition carries the neighborhood into another season of fun and friendship – March 18, 2018 FIRST STOP: TROUTS FARM If you feed them they will come. Camille puts out some breakfasty food, Bob mans the bloody Mary/mimosa/juice bar, and the neighbors begin arriving. Here comes Doug and Buffy!
Unbelievably, things are warming up, the goats are kidding, seeds are being planted, we’re wearing shorts, celebrating birthdays, and of course, cooking and eating. Life is good! HAW RIVER PROJECT Bob was standing on the town of Pittsboro’s water intake above the Haw River dam when he took this picture. He is working on a
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Welcome to issue no. 200! We started the New Year in the best possible fashion, with black-eyed peas and friends, weathered two storms and the flu, keeping our chins up with multiple sandwiches on sourdough bread, a going-away party for Jay and Giovanna, coloring, pot pie, free beer and mushrooms. HOPPIN\’ JOHN There’s
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We’re not used to getting two snowstorms in one month, and the second one dumped up to a foot of snow in our county. These photos are from January 4, 7, and 17 FIRST SNOW OF WINTER We thought this one was a doozy. Little did we know. PRETTY PINE AND PAMPASS
A month of creativity, in which we acquire art from Frankie, kick off a new project at work, publish a memoir, reap the rewards of ginger, broccoli, and garlic, count vultures, play with clay, and bake cookies. PICTURE FROM A THOUSAND WORDS Our friend, Frankie Abralind creates portraits of writers, typewritten in their own words.
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Lots to be thankful for this month, such as our neighbors (past, present, and future), and mild weather, blooms from the yard, fresh turmeric and ginger just in time for flu season, fun and fulfilling work, fried green tomatoes, our grandson, Nolan, and a Thanksgiving that couldn’t be beat! NEIGHBORHOOD EVENT Jenn and Kam
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