As I’ve said before, I’m not much of a winter person, so the arrival of the first blooms of the year always gives me a much needed emotional boost. The crocuses pictured above actually pushed their cheery little blooms up two weeks ago. Judging from their location, I suspect we have some hard working squirrel […]

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Last month when I was down by the creek, I thought I saw some bear scat. I wasn’t sure, because I’ve only seen it once, and that was two years ago. But the folks at the New River General told me that there have been black bear sightings in the area for the last year […]

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This year, I’ve allowed Galena Creek to become overgrown, partly because I wanted to see what would happen with no human intervention, and partly because I’ve been concentrating on other things around here. Recently I took my trusty brush cutter down to clear a path thru the wildflower meadow to the Creek, and found this:

I’m […]

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It’s a funny thing about blogging. You don’t always end up writing what you started out to write. In my case, I planned to do a foodcentric blog about Southwestern Virginia with a little music and folk art thrown in for good measure. And I still plan to do that. But for various reasons I […]

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Just outside the entrance to our humble little cottage is a game trail that runs from Galena Creek up Chestnut Ridge. I’ve seen all manner of wildlife make the trek up and down the trail. The other morning, some of our more vocal neighbors passed by….

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