This and that

 This week my post for Sepia Saturday is early...since last week I didn't post till Sunday!

by Hazel Larsen Archer, Black Mountain College Studies Building, c. late 1940s. Black Mountain NC campus. Vintage gelatin silver print. Courtesy of Erika Archer Zarow.⁠

This building is among my 2008 photos on my blog about Lake Eden, also on that campus site.

Albert (no other information known, until you go to Sepia Saturday.)

My paternal grandmother "Gummy" with my cousins, her older three granddaughters, Claudette standing on right of photo. and Sandra standing on the left. Gummy was holding myself, Barbara, age 11 months. So glad she dated this. Gummy would have been 57, Claudette 3 years and 10 months, and Sandra was just 2 years and 7 months. They were about 14 months apart but I could never keep up with my cousins.

“The aim of human life is to know thyself,” says Timothy Leary.

 “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” Will Rogers 

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Check out my continuing rambles over on Inner Workings. It's allowed me to let my hair down (figuratively) while focusing on beauty, peace and love over here on this blog. I also have begun a new series started this month "Living till Dying."

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Photo from Google maps...the upscale condos are right next to where these new homes will be built (currently a horse pasture)

A new land trust will be building low and moderate income homes near where I now live. It is presently a horse pasture. My road, Blue Ridge Rd. is soon (whenever the funding comes through) to have an exit from I-40. It will be around 1/2 mile from the new homes. The little road will definitely need to be widened and revamped. Civilization is coming into the country. Here's the article in The Valley Echo.

Asheville trip (with my own photos!)

 

Blue Ridge Rd bridge over the Swannanoa River is built, but not yet open as of Mon. 11.4.24. Then I went to Asheville... (Later I took more photos of Swannanoa, when I was actually looking for a free lunch, but never spotted one.)

Mon, Wed, and Fri I am going to be doing what these people are doing...for my pulmonary rehab maintenance exercise. I started this week.

A gingko tree on a cloudy day in Asheville, last Mon.

Driving through the worst hit area, Biltmore Village. Much has already been cleaned up, but the repairs continue.

McDonalds has huge piles of debris at the entrance to it's parking lot (over to the left which I didn't catch as I drove by.)

Was this the Wendy's where I went often for lunch following doctor's appointments in Asheville?

Hwy  81 runs parallel to the Swannanoa River, which flooded at 26.5 feet. (I think that's still below the roof line of these buildings,  so they must count starting at the bottom of the river.)

Today's quote:

[Film and theater critic John] Simon has simply discovered the trick used with great effectiveness by certain comedians, talk show hosts and punk rock musicians: people of modest talent can attract attention, at least for a while, by being unrelentingly offensive. 

-Steven Pinker, author and psychology professor (b. 18 Sep 1954)