A wonderful story in the Halifax Chronicle Herald Magazine. There are some drop-dead gorgeous pictures including this one by Jason Taylor. I have to figure how to visit someday. Click this link or the picture for the story.
My list of tech sins, can you add to it? What makes you want to push back from your desk and forget it for a while?
Read my article at ReadWrite by clicking the link or the picture. http://ow.ly/mU3Eq
Sometimes there is only one solution, grab the fishing gear and head out. Here’s my new fishing gear that I am preparing to use in the surf as soon as the weather, wind, and waves cooperate.
The garden also is often good place to lose those tech frustrations. Those are buckets of Southern Outer Banks tomatoes on the left in the background.
This passage sets the stage.
It’s often late at night on a dark country road when people and places, both remembered and imagined, become the sparks that light the memory defining our lives.
As my wife and I glide through the black night on Union Cross Church Road, we cross a small creek, and it hits me. I see the long-gone millpond, the house with five fireplaces, and the mill itself. I see the shadows of three young girls, my mother and her two sisters, picking beans in their garden. Next, I remember the place as it was when I was young, an old, crumbling concrete dam with trees growing in the former millpond.
The memory fades as fast as it comes, and the dark road continues on into the night.
There is more information about our upcoming book at my View from the Mountain site.
There are plenty of places you can go to find crowds on the beach and a hectic beach vacation. If you want to relax and enjoy reconnecting to the natural world, maybe you should visit the Crystal Coast where the beaches are family friendly and the crowds have room to spread out. Check out this link for more information or click on the beach picture.
I agree we need better building standards and more prescribed burns, losing lives for houses makes no sense http://ow.ly/mIP6C
A coastal community like ours has to have a balancing act with rain. We need unshine for our tourists and rain for our farmers. Week of July 4th worked out great for everyone. It started with rain, but the rest of the week has been spectacular. Click the picture or the link for more details http://ow.ly/mIACq
Boating the week of the Fourth of July is a tradition on the Crystal Coast, but sometimes the tides and winds don’t cooperate. I produced this video for my friends who need a little taste of the water to keep them going. This video was taken as I crossed the Intracoastal Waterway and traveled back into the marshes by way to the channel that runs behind Huggins Island. You can see the area of the trip in the loop on this map. It is an exceptionally beautiful area where I always see some Great Egrets.
Weaving our lives into the fabric of other lives makes us stronger #freedom #independence http://ow.ly/mFMpo
Want some sand where you neighbor isn’t just a few feet away. It is possible on North Carolina’s Crystal Coast. You just have to know the right spots. #beach #crowds http://ow.ly/mEIFx
We have you covered along NC’s Crystal Coast. If you are G+ member visit our Google+ Crystal Coast Life Community. There is lots of information there about the area. Never heard of the Crystal Coast? Check out my map of the area, the Welcome to the Crystal Coast page, the Crystal Coast Life blog, or our book, A Week at the Beach – The 2013 Emerald Isle Travel Guide.
Here is a picture taken on the beach July 2, 2013.
Our technological infirmity 
