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I Love VALLE CRUCIS, NORTH CAROLINA City Limit Sign – 6 x 24 inches

Gary Boyd — Tue, 24 May 2011 07:41:36 +0000

I Love VALLE CRUCIS, NORTH CAROLINA City Limit Sign – 6 x 24 inches

Aluminum Brand New Sign
6 x 24 inches
Rounded Corners
Predrillied for Hanging
Great Gift Idea

I Love VALLE CRUCIS, NORTH CAROLINA City Limit Sign. Made of Aluminum and High Quality Vinyl Letters and Graphics. This sign is 6 x 24 inches. Made to last for years outdoors, the sign is nice enough to display indoors too, comes with two holes pre-punched for easy installation and the corners are rounded. The item shipped will be exactly as shown in the picture (Unless you notify us otherwise i.e. a custom made order)

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Somebody nudge my kids…It would make a great Father’s Day gift.

Checker Players, Mast General Store, Valle Crucis, North Carolina – 16″x20″ – Fine-Art Gicle Photographic Print by Carol M. Highsmith

Gary Boyd — Tue, 24 May 2011 05:41:34 +0000

Checker Players, Mast General Store, Valle Crucis, North Carolina – 16″x20″ – Fine-Art Gicle Photographic Print by Carol M. Highsmith

Playing Checkers at Mast General Store, Valle Crucis, North Carolina
Photographer Carol M. Highsmith
Photographs America offers thousands of landscape and city views, as well as historic photos from the Library of Congress collection.
Each Print is carefully packaged in either a strong card-board tube, or in a heavy duty card-board envelope to insure safe arrival.
Each Print is custom printed using the fine-art giclee process.

Photographs America presents thousands of stunning, keepsake, and whimsical photographic prints by noted American photographer Carol M. Highsmith and landscape photographer Brendan Reals, as well as thousands more custom-corrected prints of vintage photographs from the Library of Congress collection. The images depict every region and every state: scenic landscapes, city skylines, aerial and small-town scenes, rustic rural views, Civil War sites, classic American landmarks, majestic national and

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Are You Going To The Fair?

Gary Boyd — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:14:05 +0000

The Valle Country Fair. The 31st Annual Valle Country Fair is October 17, 2009 (always the 3rd Saturday in October).

Photo by Catherine Morton

A busy tent community is set up in the center of a huge hayfield in the center of one of the most picturesque valleys in the North Carolina mountains during the peak of the fall color season. In addition to crafts, guests can enjoy homemade Brunswick Stew, fresh pressed apple cider and hot-out-of-the-kettle apple butter.

I’ll miss the fair this year…again. Some day soon though I’ll wander the displays in the Valle…Sample the apple butter hot from the big iron kettles…Remember the days of my childhood, so many years ago, when my Grandma fed me apple butter on fresh bread for lunch as we played in the cool of the fall.

My fall memories do not include the technicolor hillsides in the photo above…In my Texas childhood it was only the Chinese Tallow trees that provided fall color…And the purples and maroons and yellows and oranges all on one tree always seemed a little strange when everything else was still green. Catherine Morton’s photo of the Fair graced my computer screen for all of the fall and winter months the first time I saw it. Until that time I had never visited anyplace where the colors were that vibrant. But after our fall 2007 trip into the mountains I know this is what fall should be…And someday I’ll share the pleasures of the Fair and the fall colors from my own place in the mountains…Until then, I’ll have to enjoy the Fair through others eyes.

Blue Ridge blog: Come with me…

Gary Boyd — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:35:10 +0000

August is the month which, like the morning fog, descends suddenly but burns off quickly, blending into September. Do you see the tree in the foreground is showing a hint of change?

I walked the Valle this morning. I started under the veil of fog. By the time I parked my Jeep near the Goodnight Farm, blue skies peaked overtop the clouds near the Taylor’s place.

Marie Freeman takes us along on a morning walk through Valle Crucis. Her photographs always provide me the mountain “fix” I need in the midst of a Texas summer. It is her photos and blog posts that help keep me connected to the Valley I fell in love with on my first family trip to the mountains. Follow the link and walk along with her through the Valle we both love and she calls home…via Blue Ridge blog: Come with me….