{"id":599,"date":"2008-06-28T17:55:21","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T00:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2008-06-28T17:55:21","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T00:55:21","slug":"today-stalking-trains-tractors-and-lilies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"Today: stalking trains, tractors and lilies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/wtrain-1-628.JPG' title='wtrain-1-628.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/wtrain-1-628.JPG' alt='wtrain-1-628.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nA diesel engine belonging to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yadkin_Valley_Railroad\">Yadkin Valley Railroad<\/a> stands idle on a sidetrack at Donnaha, right beside the Yadkin River. Yadkin Valley Railroad is a tiny railroad owned by Gulf and Ohio. It has two lines &#8212; one from Rural Hall to Mount Airy (48 miles), and another from Rural Hall to Elkin and North Wilkesboro (66 miles). Donnaha is on the Elkin\/North Wilkesboro line. Rural Hall is in Forsyth County right on the Stokes County line.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/wtrain-2-628.JPG' title='wtrain-2-628.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/wtrain-2-628.JPG' alt='wtrain-2-628.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nThat white Jeep gets around.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/wtrain-tractor-628.JPG' title='wtrain-tractor-628.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/wtrain-tractor-628.JPG' alt='wtrain-tractor-628.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve never seen a tractor I didn&#8217;t love. This one belongs to the railroad, and I have no idea what kind of work it does.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/wlily-1-628.JPG' title='wlily-1-628.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/wlily-1-628.JPG' alt='wlily-1-628.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nA day lily at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holdengardens.com\/\">Holden Gardens<\/a> in Yadkin County. Holden Gardens raises a wide variety of day lilies. I put in an order for 300 fans of plain old roadside lilies. Holden Gardens is off Courtney-Huntsville Road about four miles from my mother&#8217;s place.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/wlily-2-628.JPG' title='wlily-2-628.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/wlily-2-628.JPG' alt='wlily-2-628.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe homeplace at Holden Gardens.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/wlily-3-628.JPG' title='wlily-3-628.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/wlily-3-628.JPG' alt='wlily-3-628.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe wellhouse at the Holden Gardens homeplace.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/wlily-4-628.JPG' title='wlily-4-628.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/wlily-4-628.JPG' alt='wlily-4-628.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nDay lilies with tractor at Holden Gardens<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/wlily-6-628.JPG' title='wlily-6-628.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/wlily-6-628.JPG' alt='wlily-6-628.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nDay lily with beetle<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/wlily-7-628.JPG' title='wlily-7-628.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/wlily-7-628.JPG' alt='wlily-7-628.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nOne of the owner-operators at Holden Gardens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A diesel engine belonging to the Yadkin Valley Railroad stands idle on a sidetrack at Donnaha, right beside the Yadkin River. Yadkin Valley Railroad is a tiny railroad owned by Gulf and Ohio. It has two lines &#8212; one from Rural Hall to Mount Airy (48 miles), and another from Rural Hall to Elkin and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=599\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today: stalking trains, tractors and lilies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rural-issues","category-stokes-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}