Merry Christmas

I hope everyone is having a good week before Christmas!

1898 Waverly Inn, Hendersonville, North Carolina: How Do You Spell "Fun"? S E G W A Y

1898 Waverly Inn, Hendersonville, North Carolina: How Do You Spell "Fun"? S E G W A Y: This past Thanksgiving weekend, the Sheiry family and friends took our second tour with segways. Segway rides are definitely fun for a wide ...

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Just one more week to Christmas!

Visit North Carolina: Find Last Minute Gifts

Visit North Carolina: Find Last Minute Gifts: With Christmas Day just around the corner, there is undoubtedly some gift shopping that remains to be done. To help you find what you’re loo...

Village Emporium - Home Decor/Furnishings, Furniture and Gift Shop in Charlotte, North Carolina

Village Emporium - Home Decor/Furnishings, Furniture and Gift Shop in Charlotte, North Carolina

Daniel Stowe Gardens

Another great place to visit to see the pretty Christmas lights!

I'm going there tonite!

 

Visit North Carolina: Traditional Holiday Recipes to Share

Visit North Carolina: Traditional Holiday Recipes to Share: Since it’s the holiday season, we thought we would share a few recipes. These recipes are for two North Carolina traditions: mulled wine and...

Shimmer Surprise

I think these are my favorite poinsettias. They have specks of white in the red.

Visit North Carolina: Christmas on the Coast

Visit North Carolina: Christmas on the Coast: Although photos of snowy mountains are often what we associate with Christmastime, there is no better place to spend the holiday season than...

Village Emporium

Great store to shop for Christmas decorations and gifts!

Here's the link to their website:  Village Emporium  http://www.villageemporiumcharlotte.com/

They have their Open House on Thursday, Dec 1st! Free gift drawings and refreshments all day long!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Safe travels everyone! Have a great weekend!

Snowman Doll

A cute Christmas image for your website!

Download websize for only $5.00

Christmastown USA

Plan to visit McAdenville this year!  If you haven't been already, it's a great place to go see the Christmas lights.  This is the small lake at the center of town that they have all the trees lit up and the fountain in the middle.

Poinsettia Basket

I have lots of Christmas images! You can use these for any of your graphic designs.

Downloadable jpeg files:

Web Size $5.00

Small $8.00

Medium $12.00

Large $15.00

Pilot Mountain

The Big Pinnacle of Pilot Mountain with its walls of bare rock and rounded top of trees.

Chimney Rock

View from the Opera Box at Chimney Rock Park.  More of the views to come!

North Carolina Mountains

Looking forward to going to the mountains and all the beautiful fall scenery!

Fall Color Report

Visit North Carolina: Many Shades of Fall Color: Fall is upon us, and its cooler temperatures are here to stay. In North Carolina, we always look forward to this season. Mother Nature never...

Sawfish

One of my favorite fish from Ripley's Aquarium!  So neat looking.

Lazy Hummingbird

This hummingbird has been around our place for most of the summer.  I was just getting ready to throw away the spider flower and noticed that he has started perching on the stems.

He's gotten lazy and just sits there and enjoys the flowers!

Beach Sunset

Here's a sunset from our balcony at the beach.  You can never get tired of looking at these!

Happy Birthday Lucy!

100 years today... one of my all time favorites. This shot was an old sign in a restaurant.

Shark Week!

It's Shark Week on the Discovery Channel! Facinated with watching these fish.

This is a video of a sand tiger shark at the SC Aquarium in Charleston. Great place to visit!

Need a Portrait or Wedding Photographer??

My niece, Candice, graduated from RCC (Randolph Community College)today! She studied photography and is specializing in Portraits and Weddings. Contact her for your photographs! She's very, very talented!

http://candicewoodphotography.wordpress.com

Color and The Queen City: A Rose For Sharon

Color and The Queen City: A Rose For Sharon

Butterflies

Where are the butterflies this year??

Daisies

Summer daisies growing by the fence.

Where are the Hummingbirds??

In Charlotte, we have only two hummingbirds and they're not here often. We usually have more than this. We've had our feeders up and I've got lots of flowers that they like.

In the mountains, we had quite a few to the feeder.

Doesn't seem to be as many around this year.

Craggy Gardens

Here's Craggy Gardens last week. The rhododendrens are in bloom right now... a little early this year.

Roosters

Pretty roosters by the creek... typical country scene around here.

Mountain Laurel

Here's the Laurel in full bloom here in the mountains. Pretty pink blooms!

Lizard at Church

It looked like this anole had stopped to say a prayer in front of my little church birdhouse... maybe that the hawk didn't get him this winter.


Anole



Churchill Downs

This is the paddock area looking toward the clubhouse. Notice one of the "twin spires".



This shot was taken two years ago when I was visiting Kentucky.

God Bless America

Country Church

This is a cute little church in the mountains, near our family home.

I love the red roof with the church painted white. In the foreground, the dogwoods are in full bloom.

Easter

Wishing everyone a wonderful Easter!

Traffic Jam

Coming back to Charlotte, we were at a complete standstill on I26. Jack-knifed truck blocking both lanes. We waiting for an hour and forty minutes! I think that's the longest I've ever waited on traffic to move.

It's a good thing I like to read and had plenty of books!

Pearson's Falls

Near Tryon, North Carolina. The watershed was good since they've had a lot of rain this spring.

Pearson's Falls

I just visited Pearson's Falls near Tryon, NC. In the Blue Ridge Mountains, named after Charles William Pearson who scouted the area for what later became the Southern Railroad.




Great trail and easy walking to the falls! It's cared for by the Tryon Garden Club and it'll cost you $5.00 each to see the falls. Plenty of picnic tables and places to eat, rest and just enjoy the views.

Johnson C. Smith University

Here are some photos around the school from this spring.

This is Biddle Hall with the red azaleas in front. The building is circa 1867.... a beautiful building!



Benches around the campus



Duke Memorial Library



Side view of Biddle Hall



For more school photos, go to the gallery link.

http://jillwlang.smugmug.com/Galleries/Charlotte-NC/Schools

Queens University

I was on the Queens College campus last week. The dogwoods were in bloom! These are some shots of the Evans Clock Tower.







Here's the link to the Schools gallery in Charlotte

150 Years Ago

The Civil War started 150 years ago today. I was in Charleston just a few days ago... visiting my niece. She's fortunate to be interning in Charleston with a very creative couple doing wedding and event photography. Here's her photo and RCC school blog.

We took the ferry boat, Spirit of the Low Country, through the Charleston Harbor over to Fort Sumter. Wonderful visit, great time and memories!

Here are a few scenes of the Fort Sumter tour.

Visit North Carolina: New Visitor Center Opens On NC Side Of Smokies

Visit North Carolina: New Visitor Center Opens On NC Side Of Smokies: "Doors opened today on a brand new visitor center on the North Carolina side of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It's the first new v..."

Queens Road

I was out yesterday getting some new shots of this great spring time in Charlotte. The dogwoods have been in bloom all week and they're just beautiful.

Here's a section of Queens Road... pretty street with all the large, tall trees.

Robin Gathering Nest Material

I caught this robin gathering straw for her nest this morning. I love watching the birds in our yard! If I'm lucky, maybe I'll get to see their nest, eggs and babies.

It is wet, rainy and cool here today.