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Happy Birthday Cayman! Thanks for throwing the best Cinco de Mayo birthday party ever. We are all wondering if you still have any alligator cake left for us?
It’s perfect spring weather in the High Country. I had a blast capturing Michael and Allison in Blowing Rock as they remembered their recent engagement at the Gideon Ridge Inn. Beautiful!
Every spring some of my cousins get together for a weekend of camping and outdoor adventure. This year we chose the New River Gorge in Fayetteville, WV. Spanning the gorge almost 900ft over the New River, the bridge is a worthy attraction in it’s own right. Once a year, the bridge is legally open to...
At 5am I roll out of a painfully short night of sleep and into my dad’s waiting cup of coffee. Along with brothers Wes and Glenn, dad drives us down dark country roads until we arrive at Harry Nagel’s farm. A lineup of pick up trucks already flank the main barn. We park our foreign...
Dad worked up a great surprise for mom this year: He figured out a way to secretly get all three sons home to celebrate mom’s birthday. Here’s the family meal he pulled off behind her back. Way to set a high bar dad.
Sometimes it takes the cutting away of excess to reveal true beauty. Such is the Christmas tree. I recently had the opportunity to spend a day trimming a hillside of shaggy, future, Christmas trees. A sharp machete, a quick wrist, and an eye for symmetry are all that is required. You become butcher, artist, and...
Cue the Burl Ives and step into a North Carolina Christmas tradition. We are fortunate to live in the “Christmas tree capital of the world.” Our farmers don’t grow corn. They grow Fraser Fir Christmas trees and export them all over the country. Boone is bustling with vacationers who have come to cut their own...
This is my second year in a row taking Appalachian State men out camping in nothing more than a sleeping bag atop one of Tennessee’s highest peaks. The wise ones take heed and prepare for winter conditions. The less-than-wise guys show up in cotton hoodies carrying summer sleeping bags. For them, the coldest night of...
With the High Country’s first heavy frost came the last of Clement’s soccer games. The boys bundled in cotton layers and took to the soccer field in their modified swarm, always hovering near the ball. The sun finally warmed things up and our boys finished with a strong win. Trophies all around.
