Thanks for the note--yes, I moved to Cullowhee when I was thirteen. "Youmans" is a Georgia name, mostly, as there were four brothers who came here before the Revolution, and three went to Georgia (bad move, probably!) Oddly enough, one stayed near where I am now. So the name is common in upstate New York as well. Odd.
My father was a professor of analytical chemistry at WCU, and my mother was head of Serials at the library. I figured that you must be very near my family home... I miss the weather and the landscape, though I'm still on the Appalachian spine.
"Only by understanding where I live can I learn how to live." Scott Russell Sanders, Staying Put
"I live my life in growing orbits,
Which move out over the things of the world."
Ranier Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours
"Most of all nature is reflected in our capacity for wonder. Nasci. To be born." Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods
"It is a grand long view. The river and valley, and then coves and blue ridges heaved up and ragged to the limits of eyesight." Charles Frazier, thirteen moons
"A conscientious journal keeper is really the natural historian of his own life." Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Rural Life
" You could build your own life on the observation of it." Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
"...the view stretched on and on across rows of blue mountains, each paler than the last until the final ranks were indistinguishable from sky. It was as if all the world might be composed of nothing but valley and ridge." Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
Wow.
Posted by: Pat | September 18, 2008 at 07:47 AM
Absolutely gorgeous!
Posted by: Beth | September 18, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Wish I'd taken that one.
S2.
Posted by: S2 | September 22, 2008 at 11:40 AM
I would never tire of it either...it is beautiful! Besides, it is ever changing as those clouds roll in and out.....
Great photo!
Posted by: Siria | September 22, 2008 at 10:24 PM
I'm from Cullowhee but living up north, and enjoying looking at your pictures--found via zephyr.
Posted by: marly | October 29, 2008 at 08:08 PM
Hi Wesley--
Thanks for the note--yes, I moved to Cullowhee when I was thirteen. "Youmans" is a Georgia name, mostly, as there were four brothers who came here before the Revolution, and three went to Georgia (bad move, probably!) Oddly enough, one stayed near where I am now. So the name is common in upstate New York as well. Odd.
My father was a professor of analytical chemistry at WCU, and my mother was head of Serials at the library. I figured that you must be very near my family home... I miss the weather and the landscape, though I'm still on the Appalachian spine.
Posted by: marly | October 30, 2008 at 08:51 AM