6-13-16
O.K., i'm gonna try this again. I have an earlier blog but it would no longer let me post so i've created 'nother.
The other's link is: http://taiyosan7.blogspot.com/ ... funny it won't work or, maybe more to the point, it is me that is not working so well.
Two days ago i returned from two weeks in NC and 10 of those days in Asheville where S and i are contemplating moving in a couple of years.
I very much like the area and saw pretty quickly that i can not live on the ocean front for three decades and not notice that is isn't so easy to adjust to mountains, humidity and relatively high temperatures. Whew ... i was surprised! Not that there were any extremes to be surprised by, but it doesn't take much to be more weather then in the SF bay area. For us 80ยบ is hot -i think its only been that warm three days this year so far and no more of that in site until Oct, maybe.
Unless i purposely drive into the hills or onto Mt Tam, everything is, more or less, flat and i can see great sweeps of land and ocean. Not so in Asheville as there is a hill in front of you or beside you almost always ... and most of that is called The Blue Ridge Parkway (BRP).
And that is one of the attractions:BRP. It is wonderful with trails around every corner with a valley or two to look down into.
Sadly, while i did do some photograph in Asheville, i didn't do any of the town ... just gotta learn how to do that kinda shooting.
A week ago we drove to Bryson City where the Great Smoky Mountain Rail Road is located. I heard about this mountain train ride some years...
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The yard across from where we were staying had fairly long grass for the first week or so and we walked past it a couple times a day as we w... -
Yesterday, i spent sometime at the NC Arboretum which turned out to be a rainy overcast day - my favorite. Still, that didn't deter the ... -
Mon 24th An hour or so ago, trying to find birds to photograph with the long lens, i was that the squirrel across the street was building ...
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