slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: Greensboro North Carolina
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British encampment at Guilford Courthouse Battle reenactment I have the house to myself today while my husband goes target shooting with his friends. Ten or so years ago we would have been at Guilford Courthouse National Military Park doing the reenactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, one of the last battles of the American…
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My co-workers often walk in Green Hill Cemetery during lunch. Sometimes I join them. Today the gusty wind was a little too much for me, but I got a few photos. Maybe next time I’ll take some art supplies and make rubbings. It’s a beautiful old cemetery. Found some great rusty metal pieces in the…
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First Friday at GreenHill Gallery and the City Arts Center. Local students had a stunning installation of figures made from clear packing tape – “We Have a Dream: The March on Washington Packing Tape Project.” Description from http://downtownfridays.com/listings: “African American Atelier Inc. – 200 N. Davie Street In celebration of Black History Month, the Atelier…
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I love this church building, especially the roof angles and windows.
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Sandy and I and Anne, a new co-worker, went on a short hike on the Reedy Fork Trail, one of Greensboro’s many trails around our reservoir lakes. Love this running cedar. Either we took a wrong turn or the trail vanished. It was in need of maintenance. We ended up crossing a power line right-of-way,…
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Yesterday was so peaceful. I painted lovely mindless color-washed pages for blank journals – a page for just about any mood, including a few stormy ones. But now I’m ready to make some book covers and it just ain’t happening. I started doing it anyway yesterday and hopefully something good will pop out. Sometimes you…
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This amount of snow is very exciting to us Southerners. When we get winter weather it is more often ice and sleet. Looks like you folks to our northeast are about to get dumped on. In the South, everybody runs out to the grocery store at the hint of a snow forecast and loads up…
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I consumed the first pot, spent a couple of hours in the Back Forty weeding and doing general clean-up, then decided that I deserved a second pot. So here I am, after all. I’ve been a little freaked out at the amount of money I’ve spent lately, and I would have had to go into…
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My favorite tree, the willow oak on my walk to work. I think that this tree is a redbud. The snow was piled as high as the horizontal branches were thick.
slowly she turned 