Fare thee well

After long thought, for several reasons, and with some sadness, I've decided to stop posting on this blog. You can still find me posting regularly over on my Mountain Mama Blog.

To those of you who've been with me from the beginning, those of you who stop by regularly, those of you who stop by occasionally...I thank you. For your attention, for your support, for the moments in the day you shared with me. I cannot express how much it has lifted me to know you're there.

But it's time to move on...

I will leave you with this, from Maya Angelou, in her recent book, Letters to My Daughter:

Thomas Wolfe warned in the title of America's great novel that 'You Can't Go Home Again.' I enjoyed the book but I never agreed with the title. I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears, and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes, and possibly in the gristle of the ear lobe.

Comments

[Alissa]

awwww....

I'm glad you're not leaving completely, though...

[Beth]

Well, it kind of makes me sad, too. After all, this is the blog I first discovered you on, when you were still living in Raleigh. But I'm so glad you're still in the blogosphere at Mountain Mama, and I do hope that you will put some of Blue Ridge Dreaming in a book. It deserves no less.

And, of course, it goes without saying that I'll keep reading as long as you keep writing! You are a wonderful writer---and a very gifted photographer.

[Pat]

This is where I found you too. So...this blog will still be here?

[Siria]

Wesley, I will miss you at Blue Ridge Dreaming since this is where I first found you, but I will continue to follow your lovely writing and photography on Mountain Mama. Whenever I think about the Blue Ridge mountains and start day dreaming...it will always bring thoughts of you and this lovely blog! Good luck....