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Posted on 09/30/2008 10:21:35 PM PDT by JustAmy
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oh Jaycee. lovely pix..
Roan Mtn was one of the three locales I stayed at when I came into Johnson City for my 2 days each week of grad school from where I lived in Winston Salem
. A friend & her hubby were rural physicians & had a place abutting the park.. they had acreage but with the park.. well had a wilderness at their disposal for hiking etc. They basically hand did the work in the house, which was amazing. decks, built in bookcases, terraced gardening, gormet kitchen, slate walkways all over the property, They sadly divorced & she married a man who was into horses as she was. When I was doing the grad school trips she was divorced but had not linked up with the horse friend. He was a butcher with 7th grade education. They were VERY happy. She said he was more educated in “life” & more considerate than her MD husband !
Dolly, I was thinking that you had probably been there because of ETSU, where you took your classes, I think I remember. My granddaughter is finishing her Radiology at ETSU now. The other granddaughter is finishing her teaching degree at King College, where my brother graduated...many years ago. Both girls should be finished by March, no later than May. They both have worked constantly and it took them a little longer to finish. And then the youngest one got married in December last year, so they are leading very busy lives.
I don’t think that link went through right but you can type in Roan Mountain Tennessee and it gives lots of sites. I may send another link but now I have to shower and go get this hair worked on....LOL!
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We don’t have Maples here..thus miss the lovely colors...I have some great seed pods collected at my daughters (pea like pods pop open to red beans and some from a now removed “take over” junk tree down in the ravine..I collected some gum balls when I lived in California..Love to find something for autumn and winter .
GG, how do you use the little helicopters as decorations. I have a lot of those floating down from the poplar trees. The poplar trees are beautiful but they are always dropping something to the ground. I enjoy their beauty and shade in summer but cleaning up after them is something else.
good morning all
shyla.. you must, just MUST check out this post (2125)
Well, I was at Emmanuel School of Religion (a graduate seminary or the Independent Christian Church).. in Johnson City.. across street from Milligan.
BUT it was ETSU country.. ORANGE..
Did you like that, garden girl? Are you gardening today? LOL!**
Yes!! Beautiful! We were watching the full moon come up the other night. It was framed perfectly by some pines in our yard. Huge and clear, you could even see the craters and stuff.
Working today. Selling lettuces and pansies and snapdragons and pumpkins. Gorgeous fall day here.
We have sweet gum balls coming out our ears. nasty to step on, but they have a kind of menthol scent and they make cute ornaments.
I miss pussy willows. Too hot here for them. OTOH, I have some great cotton plants! :)
I don’t know about poplars. The maple helicopters are red in spring, at least here. We have red maples. :) The sq’s chew the branches off because they’re stupid, I guess. They don’t eat them. LOL I appreciate it tho. If I can remember and collect them, they’ll dry on the branches and they look pretty in fall arrangements. Very delicate and airy, kind of oriental-ish.
“A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.” **
Too funny!
Gorgeous pic. Glad we don’t have any wolves around here. They’re like snow—pretty in pictures. LOL
*Sigh* I forget you’re a young’un;^)
Part of Newt’s Contract with America in 1994 was to promise a laptop computer to every American who wasn’t online yet.
JC, what beautiful pictures! Google ‘images’ has some great pictures of Roan Mountain, and the Rhododendrum Festival, and looking through them this morning, I almost felt like I was there, sharing the glorious beauty of God’s Paintbrush with you.
I love that ‘moon’ picture, too!
Dolly, you always share such interesting experiences with us. More, it seems that you totally relish each moment on this beautiful earth. A book in the making, perhaps?
LOL Let’s see—in ‘94 I was working full time, had a 4 yo, a 6yo, and an ADHD 12 yo. The only promise I would have wanted or remembered from that time period was...sleep.
Thanks for clueing me in!
Mole Day
UH...add orange stuff to blue stuff and he’s happy because it blew up? I have no clue, but it’s funny!
Canning day—I did my part this year. Trust me, whatever a can of tomatoes costs at the store, it’s worth it! LOL
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