A squash bloom
Bee balm
Month: June 2008
Road trip: The headwaters of the Dan River
Near Westfield on N.C. 89
The Dan River begins in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. The area includes Stokes and Surry counties in North Carolina and Patrick County in Virginia. I took a little road trip through this area today. It was hot, but I just couldn’t take another day of sitting inside with the air conditioning running. The Jeep has no air conditioner, but it’s nice and cool if you take the windows out and keep moving.
The Dan River headwaters in Google Earth
A farmstead near Claudville, Virginia
Outbuilding near Claudville, Virginia
A cherry tree near Claudville, Virginia
A church near Claudville, Virginia
Theological innovation near Westfield, North Carolina. If you can’t read it, the sign says “Chestnut Ridge Progressive Primitive Baptist Church.”
Artistic innovation — a yard art factory near Mount Airy, North Carolina
Butterfly weed near Claudville, Virginia
A majestic poplar, as big as an oak, near Francisco, North Carolina
A cottage on Virginia Route 103
A cottage on N.C. 8 near the Virginia line.
Hay work is going on everywhere right now. With the price of grain sky high, the hay must be really valuable to the local farmers. These days, most of the hay goes into big, industrial-size bales.
Still, some people still make old-fashioned hayride bales, and boys still learn how to do it.
The big ones would be useless for hayrides!
At least the garden likes the hot weather
Baby squash
Baby tomatoes
Deckage
A little bit of deck goes a long way in making living in an RV more pleasant. The job took only a day, thanks to my brother’s skills and nice tools. His pneumatic nail gun really sped up the job. After the house is done, I plan to keep the little trailer as a guest house.
A ride up Booger Swamp Road
Yes there is a Booger Swamp Road. I believe it’s in Zip Code 27055 if you want to Google it for yourself.
Californians, here’s what young Carolina flue-cured tobacco looks like. This is the kind of tobacco that is made into cigarettes. This is on Center Road, one turn off Booger Swamp Road. I’ll try to show you more of the tobacco crop as the season progresses.
Here’s the farm machine du jour. I believe it’s a seed drill, and it’s probably out to plant soybeans. For some reason, I find farm machinery fascinating. This is on Shallowford Road near Lewisville. All three of these photos are in Yadkin County.
We do have readers…
I don’t know a great deal about who reads this blog, but we do get readers, and traffic has grown each month. Much of the traffic seems to come from Google searches for both terms (“creecy greens”) and photos.