North Carolina – Oh, the Places We See . . .

Sit a spell or shop? Your choice at Valle Crucis, North Carolina!

With fall approaching and the urge to “git outta town” hitting us all, you might consider Western North Carolina for many reasons — colorful leaves, winding highways, the Blue Ridge Mountains, and clean country air. But one place in particular has it all: little ol’ Valle Crucis. We’re calling it little because if you want […]

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Livin’ large in a Tiny House: Flat Rock, NC

When you wait ’til the last minute to make hotel or B&B reservations wherever there’s a huge festival, you just may be out of luck. And we were. No rooms in Hendersonville, North Carolina, during Apple Festival 2016. Sold out. Nothing much on any of the tried-and-true websites we rely on for lodging. And that’s […]

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Main Street’s the Main Thing: Apple Festival 2016, Hendersonville, North Carolina

If you’re a Jerry Lee Lewis fan, you’ve probably quoted this line before: “There’s a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on!” And that would be true of the 70th Annual North Carolina Apple Festival in Hendersonville on Labor Day weekend. What’s shakin’? Why apple trees, of course. And you could get those red or green or […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Mirror

Just an ordinary pond bordered by corn fields near a farmhouse in Flat Rock, North Carolina. Still waters on a still morning. Until the geese arrived. And changed the mirror just by being there. For more entries in the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Mirror, click here.

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Summer’s Last Sip: Chillin’ Good Cook-Out Milkshake

Now, I don’t even pretend to be a Guy Fieri who knows every drive-in, diner, and dive across America and where to get the best milkshakes. But I do know a GOOD milkshake, if I say so myself. I grew up in small towns where you drove up to a tiny little building and then walked up […]

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Asheville’s Black Walnut Inn — Elegant Relaxation

Asheville, North Carolina is blessed with gracious Southern accommodations — the Inn on Biltmore Estate, the Grove Park Inn, and, if moved side by side, enough Bed and Breakfasts to line a street worthy of Hollywood. But when we began searching in earnest for a unique, elegant place to stay for a weekend away, we turned to an […]

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Asheville NC: Shopping’s Unique!

If you’ve followed my blog in the last week, you know that my husband and I traveled to Asheville, NC over the Memorial Day weekend specifically to check out Tupelo Honey Cafe, a restaurant coming to our town — Knoxville, TN! (Can’t say enough about their Southern fresh cuisine and lively, personal service!) After our bountiful brunch […]