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Celebrate the weekend at an N.C. State Park
In honor of Celebrate North Carolina State Parks weekend, which is this weekend, we cull our recommendations from this weekend’s State Park offerings. Coast 1. Ever see “Little Shop of Horrors” (either the 1960 Roger Korman original or the 1986 Frank Oz remake)? A man-eating plant! How outlandish, you likely thought. Not really, it turns out. OK, so sundews, [...]
Continue reading...Braving the wilds of Cary
Monday, July 12, 2010
Curiously, when Marcy suddenly sounded like Curly in “We Want Our Mummy,” I thought back to a phone conversation we’d had last fall. I was on the Appalachian Trail, she was in our Cary backyard. I was in the wild, she was in suburbia. I was lounging at my campsite in the woods having tea, [...]
Continue reading...A cool Fourth on the Eno
Friday, July 9, 2010
Death, taxes, a hot-as-blazes Fourth of July — the givens of life here in the Piedmont. Except this year the hot-as-blazes Fourth took a holiday. Or at least the humidity did: The temperature may have been 90, but the humidity was a dry 30 percent. Perfect weather for a summer hike, perfect weather for exploring the [...]
Continue reading...Taking the mystery out of a snake sighting
Friday, May 7, 2010
Wednesday, I was hiking along the North Prong of Shining Rock Creek, a lively mountain stream that plunges 2,200 feet in just three miles through a narrow, overgrown canyon. I was in a reveric trance, lulled in part by the rugged vegetation here in the Shining Rock Wilderness, in part by the cloudless, 70-degree spring [...]
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
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