Photoblog challenge day 6. These arrived as a gift packaged with a kitchen tool I bought, but when I opened the package, the first two jellybeans I ate were bubble gum flavor… and so what might have been a pleasant surprise proved only another deep well of sadness.

a small packet of assorted flavor Jelly Belly brand jellybeans


Photoblog challenge day 5: forest reflected in Falls Lake.

line of trees on far shore of lake and reflected in water


Photoblog challenge day 4: variegated orange marigolds with bumblebee photobomb


I am going to take the fish in a barrel approach to today’s photoblog challenge and call this precious.


Photoblog challenge day 2: A buildup of moss and leaf litter somewhere on Occaneechee Mountain.


Photoblog challenge day 1: abstract.



This week on The Road to Jockey’s Ridge, I learn some geology, explore a small patch of prairie, and meet a strange old man who tells me the legend of Sisyphus of the Eno.


View from my lunch.


New on my Mountains-to-Sea Trail Substack: Ghosts above the Falls. Echoes of labor in the landscape, prayers for the builders of a bridge, and cicadas.