A Remarkable Journeys' People Profile Approaching the college-town hamlet on SR 64 in North Carolina known as Brevard, my keen photographic eye aided by my natural curiosity, observed to my left a long row of beautifully ingrained, huge, stone slabs placed...
Bill Ahearn
Chicken/Veggie/Tomato Cantata
This is a one pot dish that is excellent for camping especially, if you have a propane camp stove. It can be served in a bowl or a plastic container. There were eight thighs in the store package. I par-boiled all eight and froze in two packages of 4. Par-boil all...
Earth Day Visit to Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest
In honor of Earth Day I visited the magnificent cove hardwood forest in North Carolina, preserved as a memorial to Joyce Kilmer, the fallen soldier and poet-author of "TREES" who died in battle in France on July 30, 1918. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated...
MY KOOLATRON PORTABLE REFRIGERATOR IS A HONEY!
I suppose you could call this a "sidebar". That's newspaper jargon for an interesting little tidbit of information. I don't want to start pitching products on this blog but I think it is worthwhile for people who read my blog and know how dedicated to...
Magical Cascading Waters of Western North Carolina
Away out west in the state of North Carolina there is a magical place where the arrowhead of South Carolina points practically due west. A place where North Carolina borders with Georgia, where Tennessee, Georgia and the Carolinas become intimate neighbors. It is here...
The incredibly Beautiful Okefenokee Swamp
Southeastern, GA: Alligators, turtles, white-tailed deer, raccoons, pileated woodpeckers, resident water fowl, water lilies, swamp grasses and miles and miles of quiet, deep, dark-black brackish water in a wonderfully quiet remote natural area. A wild, woolly,...
How to REALLY Catch an Alligator!
As told from the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. You’ll need some implements: —A Good Pair of Binoculars —A Pair of Tweezers —A Matchbox —A Green Spot First you find a pleasant spot down by the edge of a swamp where the afternoon sun is good for sun bathing. Alligators...
How Not to Catch an Alligator!
A True Story as told from the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. There are some people who are fools. No other way to explain actions people sometimes take—I mean foolish risks they take, inexplicably. Not the acts of older teenage boys that are based on growth...
Eventide: Botany Bay Plantation Wildlife Management Area
Edisto Island, South Carolina The rays of the setting sun tint everything in sight with a warm orange glow as I meander northeast on Botany Bay Road into the Botany Bay Plantation. Colors intensify as the long shadows fall and tree trunks become orange columns under...
Follow Your Dream… with the Courage of Youth.
My new friends, Holly and Chris, a young couple traveling in Florida during a college break attempting to avoid the northern cold spells, happened in, late at night, to the campsite beside me at Huguenot Memorial County Park in Jacksonville last week. My little dog,...
