North Carolina Mountain Dreams » The Dream http://northcarolinamountaindreams.com North Carolina Mountain Dreams... Dreaming of the second half of my life...In the Blue Ridge Mountains. Sun, 20 May 2012 14:14:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= I Missed My Morning Reminder To Dream The NC Mountain Dream… http://northcarolinamountaindreams.com/975/i-missed-my-morning-reminder-to-dream-the-nc-mountain-dream/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-missed-my-morning-reminder-to-dream-the-nc-mountain-dream http://northcarolinamountaindreams.com/975/i-missed-my-morning-reminder-to-dream-the-nc-mountain-dream/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:48:16 +0000 Gary Boyd http://northcarolinamountaindreams.com/?p=975 Every morning for a couple of months now one of the first things I would see in my email list was this reminder…

The reminder to enter gave me permission each morning to dream that dream that started this little blog. Do I think I’ll win? No bloody likely…But so what? For a few minutes [...]]]> Every morning for a couple of months now one of the first things I would see in my email list was this reminder…

southern-living-emailThe reminder to enter gave me permission each morning to dream that dream that started this little blog. Do I think I’ll win? No bloody likely…But so what? For a few minutes each morning I lived the dream…

Yesterday was the last day to enter…I did…Now, it’s back to real life and the same old emails coming in each morning.

Now don’t get me wrong, I mostly receive emails from folks I’ve requested to recieve emails from. And all in all they are interesting and informative, not too spammy…But they just don’t open themselves up to that daydream potential that the Southern Living email did.

They will be announcing the winner of the home in August…I know it won’t be me…But if I go missing sometime around then from the pages of my blog…Look for me in Asheville, North Carolina…That’s where I’ll be in this dream anyway.

]]> http://northcarolinamountaindreams.com/975/i-missed-my-morning-reminder-to-dream-the-nc-mountain-dream/feed/ 0 The Dream Continues http://northcarolinamountaindreams.com/622/the-dream-continues/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-dream-continues http://northcarolinamountaindreams.com/622/the-dream-continues/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:42:30 +0000 Gary Boyd http://northcarolinamountaindreams.com/?p=622 As time has gone by and we have explored more of the Blue Ridge Mountains, our Mountain Dreams have expanded to include the mountains of southwestern Virginia. Through the virtual pages of my blogs I have made many “imaginary” friends throughout the Blue Ridge Mountains…Some of whom call the mountains of Virginia home.

As we [...]]]> As time has gone by and we have explored more of the Blue Ridge Mountains, our Mountain Dreams have expanded to include the mountains of southwestern Virginia. Through the virtual pages of my blogs I have made many “imaginary” friends throughout the Blue Ridge Mountains…Some of whom call the mountains of Virginia home.

As we continue to dream and plan for a move to the Blue Ridge Mountains, I find I need a place to organize the information I find. Since my “daily” muses now show up on my blog Coffee Muses, I thought I would start reinvinting North Carolina Mountain Dreams and now the new domain, Virginia Mountain Dreams as resource pages for the Blue Ridge Mountains of both states. I am not sure where this new direction will lead, but the journey should prove interesting. Bear with me as I work on the changes I envision…

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]]> http://northcarolinamountaindreams.com/622/the-dream-continues/feed/ 1 The Rural Life – Back to Bare Ground http://northcarolinamountaindreams.com/576/the-rural-life-back-to-bare-ground/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-rural-life-back-to-bare-ground http://northcarolinamountaindreams.com/576/the-rural-life-back-to-bare-ground/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:53:53 +0000 Gary Boyd http://northcarolinamountaindreams.com/?p=576 The new year is always a kind of chronological trope, an imaginary point of debarkation. We are so deeply knotted to time past and time future that come Jan. 1, we are hardly shoving off for parts unknown. Still, the change implicit in the new year can be a mental leap forward, a recasting of [...]]]>

The new year is always a kind of chronological trope, an imaginary point of debarkation. We are so deeply knotted to time past and time future that come Jan. 1, we are hardly shoving off for parts unknown. Still, the change implicit in the new year can be a mental leap forward, a recasting of the imagination. Entering the new year also can be an act of conscience, and more so this year than in many years past.

Somehow it’s fitting to come into the new year on bare ground, even as the snow is gathering again. It makes it so much easier to take account of the work to be done, the decisions to be made and, for that matter, unmade. Some years it is just a gray transition from one calendar to the next, the resumption of a postponed meeting and an old agenda. But that is not how this new year feels. Time for the rotting fence posts to be replaced, the sagging gates to be rehung.

The Rural Life – Back to Bare Ground – Editorial – NYTimes.com.

The image conjured up by the above comes easier to me this year than it ever has in the past. I am starting 2009 with my life barer than it has been in many years. A prime place to begin rebuilding who and what I want my life to be. The old year brought an end to the life that was. The safe, the familiar, the known…What comes next, both for me and the country is not known with any degree of certainty. But life will continue, the family will endure, as will the country. New directions, new paths, new objectives…New life.

The move to the mountains becomes more pressing as the world changes in all of the wrong ways. The climate, the economy, the world political stage…All are looking pretty grim. A place less crowded, not so close to a major metropolitan area, is becoming a real draw.

Personally, the mountains call me…Especially as I sit here on the third day of the new year, in what feels like summer weather in the North Carolina and Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains. Of course, there are trade offs…Winters in the mountains are a bit cooler to say the least. But, to be able to enjoy spring…and summer…and fall, not just a few days each winter…It is a dream, a plan, a goal…

]]> http://northcarolinamountaindreams.com/576/the-rural-life-back-to-bare-ground/feed/ 0 A real look at spring in the Blue Ridge Mountains http://northcarolinamountaindreams.com/318/a-real-look-at-spring-in-the-blue-ridge-mountains/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-real-look-at-spring-in-the-blue-ridge-mountains http://northcarolinamountaindreams.com/318/a-real-look-at-spring-in-the-blue-ridge-mountains/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:53:00 +0000 Gary Boyd http://gwboydmove.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/a-real-look-at-spring-in-the-blue-ridge-mountains/ Marie just posted a photo from her deck above Valle Crucis…go check out the look of early spring in the North Carolina mountains.

This was the view from my deck. As you see, there are no leaves on our trees up here. In fact, the sexy blush of spring is not yet visible upon the [...]]]> Marie just posted a photo from her deck above Valle Crucis…go check out the look of early spring in the North Carolina mountains.

This was the view from my deck. As you see, there are no leaves on our trees up here. In fact, the sexy blush of spring is not yet visible upon the branches. But what you do not see are the sounds of approaching spring in my neck of the woods.

Source: Blue Ridge blog: A few minutes ago…

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