We hit two of North Carolina’s Top Ten Natural Wonders on our trip to Boone in September; we drove several chunks of the Blue Ridge Parkway (someday I’ll drive it all) and stopped for waterfalls and overlooks. And after the Parkway stops, we stopped at Grandfather Mountain.
Category: walk around the lake
this is a post full of things i have seen washed up on the beach
WARNING: this post does contain photos of dead things that could be considered gross by some people, so fair warning.
a springtime carrboro farmer’s market selection
A selection of 2010 Carrboro farmer’s market shots for a gloomy, muggy Saturday.
isle of palms, sc, april 2010
isle of palms, sc, april 2010, originally uploaded by minervacat. It’s been almost two months since we’ve been to the beach, and I’m itching for another trip to the ocean. Soon, soon. Isle of Palms, South Carolina. April, 2010. For Watery Wednesday.
west point on the eno
west point on the eno, originally uploaded by minervacat. Sometimes I forget just how much wildness is actually contained in and around the Triangle area. I bitch a lot about living in perma-surburbia, but really it’s 15 minutes in any direction to the middle of nowhere. I need to remember that more. Eno River, Durham,…
worth getting up for: april
southport, nc, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in April: Dr. Dog’s Shame, Shame, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings’ I Learned The Hard Way, and Josh Ritter’s So Runs The World Away; the beach; SEC and Southern Conference baseball, and the MLB; forgetting that Chad Holbrook is on the SC staff now,…
hello brown one hello blue one
unc campus, spring, originally uploaded by minervacat. hello blackbird, hello starling winter’s over, be my darling long time coming but now the snow is gone
sullivan’s island, sc, april 2010
sullivan’s island, sc, april 2010, originally uploaded by minervacat. “A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.” — Eudora Welty
isle of palms, sc, april 2010
isle of palms, sc, april 2010, originally uploaded by minervacat. The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. — Henry Miller
worth getting up for: march
shoe container gardens, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in March: my 30th birthday; days off for my birthday; Frightened Rabbit’s The Winter Of Mixed Drinks, the Drive-By Truckers’ The Big To-Do, and the Morning Benders’ Big Echo; ACC college baseball, even when we lose series; TEAM WAYNE GRAHAM1; a rash of Suburban…
brand new kind of photography 