perhaps our travel theme
should be
twenty-four hours in....
[such as]
scenes from the crossroads
West End, NC
but the destination
was Southern Pines,
amid the sand hills of our state
in time to choose
between
breakfast or lunch
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| western spice |
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| parisian flair |
we were in the land
of the longleaf pine,
spiky starbursts
in the sky
after a wee rest on an unfamiliar bed,
we returned to downtown
where an active train line
causes Broad Street
to split itself,
one half on either side
born of necessity,
evidence of
a man good at persuasion
finding other possibilities
turning their signs
to 'closed,'
we high-tailed it out to
Weymouth Woods
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| our best wildlife sighting - a pileated woodpecker! |
it was bug-hunting!
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| baby longleaf |
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| southern lady hiking |
prehistoric
(except for the bridge, of course)
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| fern for miles, it seemed |
Piney Mama
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| yellow wild indigo or baptisia sphaerocarpa |
racing the rain
ferns forever
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| the woods were full of indigo plants (indigofera tinctora) |
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| wood anemone, or anemone quinquefolia |
the thunder & drizzle
meant ours was the last car
left in the parking lot
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| though we had some trouble with the Gum Swamp trail (the sun had turned the trail markers a reddish orange), we eventually found a key intersection & turned ourselves back around |
ice-cream for dinner
sounded just right.
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| mine was two scoops: homemade peach & homemade strawberry with chocolate sprinkles on top! (hubby got a vanilla milkshake) |
ice-cream parlor din (ner)
a lovely day in Southern Pines!
