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On the floor of Umstead
Today I let whimsy take over my steering wheel as I was headed out to Gather to drop off my pottery students’ finished pieces. I usually take the direct route down Western Blvd past NCSU, but today I hopped on I-40. I’ve been admiring the fall colors from downtown, and being on the open road with an expanded horizon and rainclouds forming, the sign for William B. Umstead State Park was all I needed to be taken off-track. I don’t…
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North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
There are only three weeks left of summer before both of my boys head to school and I’m solo three mornings a week. While I have plans to get a lot of work done, at the top of my list is to go the the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences all by my lonesome. We’ve made several visits this summer, managed to explore most of the floors of both halves, but I feel there is still so much there…
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Honey in the Raw
This is our family’s second year using a local food delivery service Papa Spuds. We don’t request a delivery every week, and because we grow some of our own vegetables, we make good use of their other offerings like artisan bread, local goat cheese, and occasional sweet treats. The best find by far is the local raw wildflower honey by The Pleasant Bee. They sell their honey through their website, Papa Spuds, and on Saturday morning at the Midtown Farmers…
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The Magic of Filters and Editing
With The Handmade Market just around the corner, I placed my first order of prints for a look-book, and for some display frames to hang on the table. I’ve never sold photography at a show before, so I decided to have the 4×6 prints with a thin white trim for demo and let people place an order for larger prints if they desire. I’d still like to have some 5×7 prints available, but I don’t know which ones to print.…
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Turtle Hole Eno River
We spend far too many Saturdays around here without a plan. The morning fades into noon and the day goes by without our really sucking the marrow out of it. We sometimes lament that we can’t afford fancy travel or fun toys like motor boats and waltz back to life on Monday with ridiculous sunglasses and sandal tans and windblown hair. We let things like money, the ages of our boys, and that mid-morning punch of drowsiness relegate us to…
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In Honor of Earth Day
In all honesty, I wasn’t aware that yesterday was Earth Day until after I’d taken the boys out to shop for plants (specifically irises), but I must have been getting good earthy vibes since we finally got rain after a two week dry spell. In fact, we’ve received nearly two inches of rain since Saturday. The sprinkler never quite generates the same growth in the veggie garden as a good rainstorm does. We visited the plant sale at J.C. Raulston…
