Every year Audubon North Carolina publishes a Bird-Friendly Native Plants of the Year List. It suggests plant choices that help sustain native and migrating birds with food, habitat, and more. […]
Tyler Kittle, jazz musician and improviser extraordinaire, understands that a musician can’t rely solely on exceptional talent. He/she must be a showman, an interpreter (for those who don’t speak jazz), […]
We all have them…treasures too dear to discard. They sit idly in bureaus and boxes and bags. You can’t take Grandmother’s brooch, Auntie’s silver dollar, or Father’s military medals […]
As much as we talk about going paperless, we continue to stumble around in an avalanche of print-outs, business forms, handouts, cancelled checks, receipts, memos, packaging, statements, and paper trails […]
Download a Visual Step by Step Congratulations on considering adding a Deck-in-a-Day to your outdoor living space. Whether or not you already have your pallets, here is some good information […]
USA Today, America’s newspaper of the well-informed and well-traveled, recently ran their 10 Best Readers’ Choice Travel Awards Contest. Drum roll please…Highlands, North Carolina, was voted among the Top Ten […]
When my son was four I woke up one morning with a gravelly voice. I told him I was hoarse and had a frog in my throat. He thought for […]
When the governors of North and South Carolina got together to discuss the route of Highway 107 through Cashiers, a barrel of brandy and a keg of white lightnin’ juiced-up […]
A couple of months ago, Savannah Trantham, president and co-founder of Appalachian Wildlife Refuge, a Western North Carolina wildlife non-profit rehab center, had a wand-derful revelation. She was cleaning out her […]
It takes a special magic to literally turn the ground you walk on into art. Laura Schroeders is the wizard who can perform that kind of alchemy right before your […]
