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Talk to Your Spouse About Your Retirement Vision
You may not see it in the greeting card section of your local drugstore, but August is “What Will Be Your Legacy Month.” So it’s a good time to think about the type of legacy you’d like to leave. Of course, “legacy” can mean many things. In the broadest sense, your legacy is how you will be remembered by your …
Brand New Custom Home
Enjoy carefree living in this brand new custom home just steps away from Harris Lake and two blocks from the center of Highlands. The quarter-acre level lot is surrounded by tall trees, lush native vegetation, and has a peaceful mountain stream flowing through the ultra-private backyard. What could be better than relaxing on the large covered porch with your morning …
Seven Salad Rules
When you think “salad,” do you visualize a boring pile of vegetables? Or do you imagine the same salad that you eat day after day, because you don’t really know how to create anything new? There are seven basic rules to creating a good, healthy salad. Once you are familiar with these, you can let your creativity flow and easily …
There Must be Something to it
In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easier than ever to become overwhelmed by the ever-changing fad diet, exercise program and need for instant gratification. Yoga works like no other system of fitness because it focuses on more than just the physical body. Yoga is a system of union, uniting the mind, body and breath for overall wellness. Having been around for …
If the shoe Fits
The Plateau is gorgeous this time of year, and there’s nothing better than getting out in the sunshine to enjoy the beauty and get a little exercise. The great thing about our beautiful countryside is the wide variety of walking and hiking trails for us to enjoy. There are easy, flat trails for the average fitness walker, hilly trails to …
Ballad of Kidder Cove
It has been over a decade since I wrote an article about the well-known 15-stanza square-dance banjo tune known as “The Ballad of Kidder Cole.” I concentrated more on the ballad than I did the talented teenager who wrote it – Felix Eugene Alley – so it’s time now to tell about Felix’s life. He was born in 1873 in …
Hatching a Plan
How much money did the chicken get for crossing the road to make a guest appearance in this column? A poultry sum. The Hall Family has endowed Highlands’ history with a solid contribution, though they weren’t above playing a practical joke or two when the opportunity presented itself. They ran a Dutch Colonial Manor officially named Meadow House, but affectionately …
The Intrepid Towhee
This large sparrow, the Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus), looks more like an American Robin than, say, a House Sparrow, but a member of the sparrow family it is. There are white-eyed towhees to our south, but our towhees here in Western North Carolina are red-eyed and plentiful in our woods. The male is black-headed with a sooty black cape, reddish-brown …
Birthday Golf in Ireland
Jimmy Maurin recently received a once-in-a-lifetime Birthday present from his three son-in-laws. It was a fantastic golf tour of Ireland, arranged through Laurel contributor Tom Chillemi, PGA, owner of Tom’s Golf Tours. These are his field notes for a birthday present that will always be treasured. “What a trip we had. Ireland is golfer nirvana. Courses are awesome, people extremely …
Black-Eyed susans
The Black-Eyed Susan’s real name is Rudbeckia hirta. The genus was named for Olaus Rudbeck, a professor of Botany from the University of Uppsala, in Sweden. The botanical name of hirta refers to the hair on its stems and leaves. A good way to remember the real name of this plant: If you’re rude to someone, (especially to someone named …
Fly Fishing on the Plateau
A lot of times people will ask me where they can fly fish “in Highlands or Cashiers.” The truth is that most of the best fishing in Western North Carolina resides at least 40 minutes away from the Plateau, but since a lot of folks don’t like the idea of driving so far from here, let’s run down the truly …
The Climb Up Little Green
“Hello?” called the voice of worry from the other side of a cluster of evergreen and blueberry bushes. My boyfriend and I were sitting and snacking in a patch of shade atop Little Green Mountain in Panthertown Valley, and he had just burped with the satisfied enthusiasm, apparently, of a black bear gorging himself on blueberries. “Hello!” I called in …
