This effort in exposition begins the noble experiment of many years of understanding this land, deep within the Chocowinity Bay /Pamlico River watershed, its essence in totality, and, ultimately, the planning of that benefit to the collective will of humankind.
( Published Sunday, January 25th, 2026 @ 4:05 pm )]]> Bureaucracy is the enemy of conservatism
( Published Thursday, June 26th, 2025 @ 8:46 pm )]]> Incompetence and a refusal to require facts will lead to poor decision making regarding Snowden.
( Published Monday, May 12th, 2025 @ 11:20 am )]]> RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper and North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (NCDNCR) Secretary Reid Wilson celebrated Earth Day by visiting Goose Creek State Park in Washington.
( Published Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 11:50 pm )]]> I love watching, and taking pictures of small beautiful things just as much as I love making images of wide sweeping vistas. It is all part of God's natural plan, and I am fortunate to have the opportunity to record it for all posterity.
( Published Thursday, January 6th, 2022 @ 10:43 pm )]]> After four full days of frozen Mac'swood cabin fever, I struggled out to take an iced numbing look a my old muse.
( Published Monday, January 3rd, 2022 @ 9:47 am )]]> When the ice took over, it was unrelenting, and with the full sun of cloudless days, the snow saw little melt
( Published Monday, January 3rd, 2022 @ 5:49 am )]]> After the first night of ice, and much powdery snow, the ice takes over.
( Published Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 7:35 pm )]]> It was hailed as the Bomb Cyclone, a storm consisting of warmer moist air from the Gulf of Mexico that picked up a spinning motion after its center crossed the northern Florida coast, now over the Gulf Stream, and without delay barrelled north up the Atlantic Seaboard.
( Published Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 9:46 am )]]> Sunsets are a natural phenomenon, and always a process where one can estimate that the evening will produce a magnificent sunset, but, one can never be altogether sure until it either happens, or the light of the day unceremoniously just turns dark.
( Published Saturday, January 1st, 2022 @ 11:29 am )]]> North Carolina Coastal Pines is pleased to announce that Laney Brinn of Pinetown, NC, is the Beaufort top seller for the 2021 Girl Scout Cookie Program.
( Published Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021 @ 2:12 pm )]]> Wind tides are a profound phenomenon that often do not involve the lunar influence on the tides, just a sustained wind blowing either in or out.
( Published Friday, March 16th, 2018 @ 11:40 pm )]]> We all want to live in a pristine world with clean air and clear oceans and waterways.
( Published Friday, March 16th, 2018 @ 3:59 pm )]]> For small town America, Belhaven, North Carolina is well celebrated for its elaborate 4th of July celebrations. This post is a pictorial of some of it.
( Published Saturday, August 5th, 2017 @ 3:08 pm )]]> For the last 16 1/2 months, I have been in a reconstructive state regarding my 2.3 acres (4 building lots) property where my homes sets in Mac'swood.
( Published Thursday, May 4th, 2017 @ 5:00 pm )]]> It has been a busy year here in 2016, and as we draw to a close in this Christmas season, I found the time to study the clouds from my Mac'swood home, and made this decision for the allocation of time in this waning day: I am making the 5 minute drive down to the Pamlico River for the sunset.
( Published Saturday, January 14th, 2017 @ 12:28 am )]]>