Fall Colors Are Beginning to Show

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.

-- Albert Camus

We took a drive into Cherokee, North Carolina over the weekend.
Fall colors are just beginning to show in the highest elevations.
We had lunch of corn roasted in the husk
and spiced apple cider
along with a nibble of Colby cheese
at a table by the roadside.
The wood smoke from the nearby cabins created
the perfect fall atmosphere!

Indian Rocks

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Our small farm consists of 10 acres in what used to be Cherokee land.
Over the many years of plowing that has been done on our land,
most of the arrowheads and other artifacts have been scavenged.
When we began building our home in 2000, we found these two
'Indian rocks'.
We assume that they were used as a mortar and pestle.
We found one other pestle, but it wasn't as well shaped as this one.
We have yet to find the mortar, but we keep searching.
These finds keep me dreaming of days gone by and
legends of the people who came before us.

 

 

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