Flat Creek in Montreat NC

 

Creekside view from 2013 - before the flooding almost 11 months ago in 2024.

High water on Flat Creek, Montreat, NC

compared to another shot at same place...several months later

Today's Quotes:

 C.S. Forester, born in Cairo (1899) to British parents. He created the character Horatio Hornblower, an English naval officer who is heroic but also introverted, suffers from seasickness, is a fanatic about efficiency and discipline, and hates the poetry of Wordsworth. He also wrote The African Queen (1935), which was made into a movie in 1951 by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. In it, Forester wrote, "When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument." 

He also wrote, "A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted." 

And, "When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask."

 He died in 1966. He was a favorite author of my father's, who read all of the Hornblower novels. I didn't remember that he also created the African Queen story!

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Update on healing from dental extraction last week: Taking antibiotics again, and still having swelling on my cheek and sometimes my eye on that side of my face. I’m making myself not do very much But yesterday I did go to the grocery store.