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Category: Appalachia
Predicting Weather by the Signs: Wooly Worms, 2018
Here in the Southern mountains, the old-timers (and many young people as well) still predict the weather by “the signs,” that is, the signs found in nature. One of those signs is the coloration of the wooly worms. Wooly worms, also known as wooly bears, are found across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico and are…
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Places People Live
At the beach In the Upper Midwest In Southern Appalachia “There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.” (Jane Austen) See more places people live or join Cee’s challenge here.
A Photo A Week Challenge: Quintessential
A quintessential Southern Appalachian homestead You can join the Photo A Week challenge here.
Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: View From the Bank
View from the parking lot of the bank in Cleveland, Georgia See more interesting odd ball photos or join Cee’s challenge here.
Pic and a Word Challenge: Peaks
Blue Ridge Mountain peaks, as seen from an overlook somewhere on the highway between Dillard, Georgia and Highlands, North Carolina “The mountains are calling and I must go.” (John Muir) This challenge is a new one to me, as I was just introduced to Pix to Words who sponsors it each week. It looks…
The “hind catcher” gets a catcher’s mitt that’s over 90 years old
Back in May of 2016, grandson Ben was featured in my post Appalachian Sayings: The “hind catcher”. (The term hind catcher refers to the position of catcher on a baseball team.) This past weekend our little hind catcher was given a catcher’s mitt that is over 90 years old. It was given to him by his…
Appalachian Sayings: “Eat up with”
“Eat up with,” short for “eaten up with,” can mean either consumed by or covered up with. Here in Appalachia, a person can be “eat up with” or consumed by a negative emotion but not a positive one. No one is ever eat up with love or kindness or compassion, but a person can be…
Appalachian Sayings: “Nary a one”
I often use this phrase. In Appalachia, “nary a one” means none, not one, none at all. This year, although the wild dogwood trees in the woods around us burst out in beautiful blooms, the three trees in our back garden had no blooms, nary a one. Likewise, although I have enjoyed seeing the photos…
Country singer Loretta Lynn smokes weed, causing my blog stats to spike!
Seriously! Two days in a row now I have received email messages from WordPress that my blog statistics are spiking. I discovered that Spin Magazine, an online music magazine, had linked to one of my blog posts. Wondering what in the world they found of interest in my blog, I was led to an article about…
Unexpected in common hours 