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Reservoir rendezvous
Published: 2009-02-18 19:01:00Joe Wright was born and raised in the high Nantahalas in the northwest corner of Macon County. He was 90-some-years-old when I interviewed him back in the early 1990s or thereabouts and made the notes upon which this account, in part, is based. Wright to...
Read MoreForsythia heralds the spring season
Published: 2009-02-11 17:39:00The recent warm spell has the birds singing and various plants budding. One of these is forsythia. My wife, Elizabeth, recently placed several clippings in a vase in our home, near a window, where the light and warmth will force them into early bloom. Bu...
Read MoreOwls remain mysterious, alluring
Published: 2009-02-04 16:23:00Of late, I have been hearing the owls sounding off on the slopes and ridge lines behind our home. Some folks think of owls as evil omens, but I like to listen to them. They are, for me, the nocturnal call of the wild. Learning to identify the owls that r...
Read MoreThe common beauty of the robin
Published: 2009-01-28 16:31:00Some birds — blue jays, cardinals, mockingbirds, song sparrows, etc. — are so much a part of our everyday lives that they have virtually become invisible. We see them without truly paying attention to their comings and goings, to their particular cha...
Read MoreGetting to know liverworts
Published: 2009-01-21 15:57:00Some years ago, when I was first interested in plant identification, I became curious about liverworts. They are one of the distinctive plant groups (like fungi, lichens, mushrooms, etc.) without advanced vascular systems. The very name “liverwort” w...
Read MoreAn interested observer
Published: 2009-01-14 14:38:00omething banged against the office window above my desk. I assumed it was a bird of some sort. And since my office is upstairs over Main Street just off the town square in Bryson City — where the bird population is not varied — I was thinking house s...
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