by don | Nov 27, 2013
I believe it was in 2010 when the Town of Waynesville signed off on a plan to thin the stands of whit e pine in the Waynesville Watershed. Today (11/25) Cecil Brooks began doing just that. Brooks said that, weather permitting he would probably be hauling the first...
by don | Nov 20, 2013
It will likely take awhile for the smoke to clear after the Table Rock Fire near Linville Gorge in the Grandfather District of the Pisgah National Forest either burns out or is suppressed. The fire was first spotted Tuesday, November 12 – the very same day that...
by don | Nov 15, 2013
I can be standing five feet from my girls and say something simple like, “wash your hands,” “brush your teeth” or “clean your room,” and not even an eyebrow will twitch in acknowledgement. But put those same girls down in the basement with TV or ipad/pod blaring at...
by don | Nov 6, 2013
Traveling from east to west, the Mississippi River Bridge is a time portal for me. I drive for hours squarely focused on the here and now, then I reach the bridge and in a breath I’m suspended above the Big Muddy, the river stretches for as far as I can see to...
by don | Oct 16, 2013
Millions of years ago America and Africa rubbed shoulders and the Appalachia n Mountains were created. The ancient Appalachians, at one time as high as the Alps or Rockies, created quite an east-west barrier from Canada down to central Alabama. Today’s, kinder-gentler...
by don | Oct 9, 2013
I was at the Allens Creek soccer fields Saturday morning watching Maddie play w hen my eyes were drawn to the mountains across the way. Red splashes like watercolor brush strokes climbing a mottled green canvas were shinning from the forests. It was Virginia creeper...
