The Jackson’s Ferry area is about 2 miles south of our humble little cottage, less than that as the crow flies. It is one of the more historic areas in SW Virginia dating to pre-Colonial days. It is also one of the most scenic. The view from the bridge than spans the New River where […]

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I don’t know if the seemingly inordinate number of morning spider webs I’ve been seeing lately means anything, like a hard winter, early frost, or anything like that, but they make some cool photos. Here are a couple for your perusal.

The Grits Mess
Anne tends to eat healthier than I do, particularly when it comes to […]

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One of the least pleasant aspects of country life is the variety and number of critters with whom we often share our humble little cottage. For the first couple of Decembers  when I came down for the weekend, I found the place overrun with mice and ladybugs. The mice I expected, but the hundreds of […]

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It’s been raining for better than 36 hrs., and man did we need it. Things were starting to get a little dry. We had to cut back on watering the garden, because our water comes from an undergroung spring, and the waterlevel was getting low. I spent an hour or so on the porch during […]

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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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