Enjoying life in the mountains...finally!

Ever since I decided I may try to move back to Seattlle, life here has been much more tolerable and enjoyable. The other day, Kali & I went for a hike up to mile marker 418 on the Blue Ridge Parkway, past Mt. Pisgah to an area called Graveyard Fields. It was beautiful with a meandering big stream that Kali laid in and drank from and two nice waterfalls, see http://www.hikewnc.info/trailheads/pisgah/pisgah/guidedhikes/graveyardfields.html. It starts out by climbing down several hundred feet from the parkway into a lovely blueberry valley which spreads out far & wide. There was such an open but safe and secure feeling down there, I could have stayed there all day.

My dear friend Shanna will be here in a few weeks and we will definitely be heading to Smoky Mtns Nat'l Park. We will try to hike a little bit of the Appalachian Trail or, as the cool people call it out here, the "AT."

Last Thursday, I went with my friend Kelley (who started out as the dog woman)to Jack of the Wood, a cool low key club downtown, to hear the bluegrass jam. I'm really starting to love bluegrass and listen to it all the time (listen to www.wncw.org ) from an NPR station at Isothermal Community College - don't you just love that name! Sorry for the short posting but maybe it's a nice change for the reader!