slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: Wildflowers
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Next we headed north to the east side of Going-to-the-Sun Road at St. Mary’s Lake. I wanted to do a bit more hiking but we had no water left in our bottles and every store in the little town there was closed. We drove up as far as we could to the point where you…
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A rainy late winter afternoon walk at Bold Moon Nature Preserve near McLeansville, North Carolina. Again, I focused on the little things, especially moss and fungi. I last visited Bold Moon Nature Preserve in October 2012, when its meadows were covered in goldenrod. Now Bold Moon is officially part of the Guilford County Open Space…
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Correction: NOT blue jellyfish. These are called “By-the-wind sailors” (Velella velella), a much better description! Thanks, Joe.
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I stayed in an Aloft hotel on Wednesday night, which I specifically chose for its proximity to the light rail system station so that I could explore on my own. My brain doesn’t function when I am sleep-deprived, and my sleep gauge was on red from several nights of anticipatory anxiety. I checked in around…
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My art retreat was over on Sunday, September 23. After saying my goodbyes to Albie and Ricë, I slipped away while the others were in their Sunday workshops, with a bit of envy. But not too much, because I was about to spend the rest of my day with my fabulous friend Cat, who moved…
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At Bold Moon Open Space Preserve in Guilford County, North Carolina We’ve had a lot of rain, so it was a good opportunity to photograph fungi…
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You can usually find beauty if you look for it. In this case, it was a walk beside a ditch behind the Super 8 Motel in Black Mountain, North Carolina. These asters were much bluer in person. I think that this is wild lettuce. I wish that I knew my plants better. Ditto. Ooh! Ooh!…
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There sure were a lot of purty flowers up at the John C. Campbell Folk School. Dogwood Bluebells White Trilliums Saucer Magnolia
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