A Saturday hodge podge!

 
Good morning (when I am writing this!)

I hear birds chirping, though we're back to winter temps...but at least no snow and it will stay above freezing all day!

Not my shot, and this bird obviously isn't outside my windows...but I had it in my files! 

Progress on the tiny tall house on First St.

Someone else posted this beautiful tree. Now that's a great example where a tree can just grow and grow all directions...but I wonder if there isn't a space underneath where kids could hide.

A sweet little critter I met this week. Sharing with Saturday Critters.

I may like dragons, but I think this is a bit over the top!

So we should call upon this dragon slayer, eh?

Last week I was at a birthday party for a dear friend, who just turned 39 (er 90!). Bette is also a Mudbuddy too! 

Photo by The Valley Echo

Today in Black Mountain there will be hundreds of runners that hope to run up to Mt. Mitchell, but due to snow probably at high elevations, it may just be a marathon, turning around and coming back to Black Mountain from the Blue Ridge Parkway. For me it means lots of new people in town that are in the parking places I usually would use!

I hope everyone has a happy Saturday!

Today's quote:

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. -Charles Dickens, novelist (1812-1870)

A Mudbuddy who also does jewelry

 Come toe the Tailgate Market any Saturday morning until almost Thanksgiving. Behind First Baptist Ch, but you'll see all the signs driving up Hwy 9/

Lots of fun earrings and pendants!

Better Potter Jones is the artist I'm sharing with you today. She says she's 39. I'm for that, as well as her energy and brilliant humor.

There's a nice fish platter in the top of this photo, with little orange fish floating around. Sorry I didn't capture it by itself!

Fun beads and pendants. (Bette says, you can tell I have a cat!)

Early in the Tailgate Market's day, a hot Saturday at the end of July, a family friend of Bette's talks with her and another Mudbuddy, Amelia (on left.)

Today's quote:

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. -Carl Jung, psychiatrist (1875-1961)

Tailgate Market pottery

Though I haven't visited in the last couple of weeks, this was Cathy Babula's display then. Every week she adds things, and sells some.
 

Today's quote:

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. 

-Desiderius Erasmus, philosopher, humanist, and theologian (1466-1536)