Middlewood Journal

This is yesterday's drawing - another from Waynesville, NC. It was so nice to be in the cool, lush mountains after suffering the hot, r...

This morning was cool and breezy when I headed out to hike around 8 o'clock. As I walked through the woods I noticed a beautiful fresh ...

This is the first day in a long while that I've had time to wander on the pipeline, so I was glad to find that it was overcast and breez...

Visiting Atlantic Beach, Florida is more than just a vacation - it's coming home to a place I've known my whole life. My grandmothe...

These shelf fungi are growing on a rotting stump in the woods behind the house. My husband found it and came running into the house to tell...

I love surprises and today I got one! As I hiked down the steepest part of the trail above Meetinghouse Creek I came eye to eye with a frui...

These are yesterday's drawings that stretched into today due to the fact that the black background took so long!   Yesterday morning...

A quickie post today.  This is yesterday's journal entry but I had no time to post it.  Instead I slapped the book shut, stuck it in my ...

It was a nice breezy morning on the pipeline.  There were blue skies, and it was quiet except for the high buzz of cicadas in the trees.    ...

A front passed through yesterday, and although there were storms all around to be seen and heard, our particular spot didn't get a drop ...

Kayaking Lake Craig (a fishing lake in our nearby state park) is one of the best of summer day activities.  Today, in particular, was specia...

Morning on the pipeline was overcast, cool (65ish deg?), and breezy-like-the-beach, the steady dampish breeze that makes you glad you wore a...

I'm back!  I thought it would be Wednesday, but I was asked to do a bit more, so it went a bit longer.   As soon as I delivered the stac...

This is a quickie lunch post to thank everyone for visiting even when the posts were not actually from around Middlewood.   The illustration...

Beside the farmhouse's eastern terrace grows a huge shrub that on one trip was covered with these strange looking flowers.  I had no ide...

The title of this post says much about the grounds around the old mas, or farmhouse.   The snails are found everywhere - the smallest, about...

These are flowers from around the farmhouse in which we were staying... the tiny morning glory was growing in rocky soil amidst a long row o...

Another amazing sight throughout the Provence countryside is the wild Centranthus that grows with abandon in the old limestone walls.  The n...

Provence is known for acres of poppies in spring that can turn an average olive orchard, say, or even a bland roadside into a magical place....

For the record I'm still alive and well and living at Middlewood!  I went on a vacation with my family and returned to find that the dea...