Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Because you didn't want all the photos at once

 

Another fence around a tree to perhaps protect its roots



Coming back where we started, and then to the Pack Library...

We loved the used book sales room





A lovely quite which took 17 years to create, with a panel from each of the 100 counties of North Carolina. Of course we didn't know where half of them were (the counties) and often their square didn't give any clues.

A really nice card was available with better photography of the quilt...

With this on the reverse side explaining how the quilt came about.

From the street level at Pack Library, is this well which serves the windows for the downstairs rooms. And a rather imaginative bunch of prehistoric critters graces the space with this mural.


It definitely harkens back to the library providing books from which these critters might have come.

Today's quote:

May you grow still enough to hear the small noises earth makes in preparing for the long sleep of winter, so that you yourself may grow calm and grounded deep within.

BR. DAVID STEINDL-RAST


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17 comments:

  1. eileeninmdNovember 14, 2023 at 6:11 AM

    Hello,
    I like the cutouts on the fence and the cool mural. Cute kitties. Take care, have a great day!

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  2. Jill HarrisonNovember 14, 2023 at 6:29 AM

    I really lliked the statues in the street and of course the library! And the orange kittens matching the autumn leaves in the tree. Have a great week and thankyou for visiting my blog this week.

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  3. TomNovember 14, 2023 at 6:52 AM

    ...whoever filled soil up around the tree in the first picture certainly didn't know what he was doing. BAD!

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    1. Barbara RogersNovember 14, 2023 at 11:02 AM

      I think there is just a bunch of ivy growing at the base of the tree, and soil level is the same as where the curb is outside the fence.

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  4. AnvilcloudNovember 14, 2023 at 7:30 AM

    It's an impressive library in its way.

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    1. Barbara RogersNovember 14, 2023 at 11:03 AM

      It's a central library for Buncombe County libraries...so we can get books from any of them easily at our branch in Black Mountain.

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  5. AnonymousNovember 14, 2023 at 9:50 AM

    Love all of these photos. What a great day you had there with your friends and all the wonderful things you saw. (NewRobin13)

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  6. Vicki LaneNovember 14, 2023 at 10:01 AM

    Such a good library. And I love the quote. Probably stealing it . . .

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    1. Barbara RogersNovember 14, 2023 at 11:04 AM

      I do love the library and need to check out their ancestry/research area someday...when I'm not with friends who would be bored for my interests. Yep, quotes are to be passed along.

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  7. Granny SueNovember 14, 2023 at 12:03 PM

    Love those big skeletons! I was only in Asheville once, and too tired to enjoy it. Maybe one day we will go back.

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    1. Barbara RogersNovember 14, 2023 at 7:30 PM

      Yes, it's a place with many faces, and I've only scratched the surface myself. Sometimes I kick myself for not having gone to this or that, and it's no longer happening.

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  8. BillNovember 14, 2023 at 12:41 PM

    Nice looking library. The kittens are so cute and adorable.

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  9. William KendallNovember 26, 2023 at 1:20 PM

    Such cute kitties.

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