City Lights Bookstore, Sylva NC

 There may be a more famous bookstore in San Francisco by this name, but this is the one I drive 50 miles to enjoy. (And I can certainly drive 15 miles to several great bookstores in Asheville NC also!)

This is the simple entrance on the top edge of a hill. There's not all that much parking on the one way street, so we were fortunate to get the handicap spot right by the door.

A very fun critters umbrella hung overhead where I browsed biographies. I also found a lovely book of Mary Oliver's poems.  They have a good selection of used books, mostly paperback fiction, but many other topics, as well as a good selection of Appalachian and Native American publications.

I've sworn off fiction for a while, having been too identified with the characters in my last fiction reading. So biographies/journals/poetry...all the wonderful non-fiction captured me.

Then our fun treat was eating in the cafe downstairs.  Good organic food, prepared after you order it. 

Helen had the London Fog special tea, a black tea with a shot of vanilla, finished off with milk.

Teresa ate a comfort lunch of tomato bisque soup with a cheese sandwich, while Helen had a breakfast burrito something, and I had the soup with a spinach and apple salad.

1/12-13/23 Weather update...warmish day, high winds and rain for a couple of hours including big thunder in the mountains (it rolls on and on and on). South of us at dinner time we had some tornadoes that got on our weather report, in South Carolina.  Today (Fri) is much colder, woke up with 35 degrees and partly cloudy, and snow expected this afternoon. Temps tonight into the 20s.

Today's quote:

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

—Douglas Adams
from a Speech at Digital Biota 2, Cambridge, UK, (1998)