thackery dairy road

rocked out to a great band with the above name, with a very hot and original sound, not only vocally but instrumentally as well. molly their lead singer and the whole group gave a smashing performance to a quaint crowd at the canyons, in blowing rock, saturday night. look for them soon at murphys, and be there.

flyby

xmas and new years did just that. had a grand time in vegas with my bro and parents, then home to boone for a very charming new years celebration and the boone saloon.

cheese

my cousin sent these to my brother in a note to congratulate him for getting the new wholefoods store on the strip in vegas.... i thought some of you might get a kick out of them. oh to be young, have white hair (although gray is close:) and naive... we have come along way since these photos growing up in canada, in my brothers case from cheese cutter to the head dude at a major wholefoods in 5 years.

boonan

what would you call one from boone, and booonite, boonian?? alot going on this last week, halloween parties at the saloon, mountain biking national championships in banner elk (in which a student from lees mccrae college won the mens div I short track race), and i finally found a house to rent not far from town...yippee, and a groovy modern gem tucked away in the mountains. looks like the lease for the space downtown is going to fly after all, finger crossed.

skyhi

fitting in some tunes at the boone saloon saturday night, meeting some groovy folks as well. women with 2 kayaks...only in this town:)

nitty gritty

the folks of boone were getting down and dirty this weekend:) the craut creek festival was going on and what im calling "d-fest" at angelica's was quite a site...

deep pockets

laura reed out of boone fronts a band by that name. supposedly a boone mainstay for years, reed is trying to work her way out and up in market size. great voice, groovy tunes and original lyrics, but i think she has a lot left in her and hope she channels that into a creative separation from what is out there.

boonelander

just got hooked/wired/born again to the internet and putting up some pics of the place at which i reside for the next few months. 60 acres of land on the blueridge parkway 8 mile to the east of boone. i am living with andrew and dante until vic is done with her commitment on georgia at the end of october, at which time i am scheduled to complete the cutting and clearing of the land. boone is charming so far, with a traffic problem indicative of a small growing town. how about app state beating michigan.... this town was nuts...i could hear the cheers up on the land. *** check out my new appalacian blog which i have a link to on this blog.