Pocahontas County Fare

Another Pocahontas locality recorded as "haunted" is the old Denmar State Hospital. A lot of the older people here on Droop Moun...

A state highway marker west of Lewisburg (in nearby Greenbrier County) commemorates the "only known case in which testimony from [a] g...

Since I moved to Pocahontas County I've heard quite a few ghost stories. The storytellers have a variety of attitudes about their narra...

Phoresis. That's what this caterpillar was experiencing as I photographed him. I found him tearing across my porch at top speed, and nu...

We've started mowing off the garden. It's hard to believe the weedy, rotting mess we're working on now was this well-groomed pa...

I just finished Tony Hillerman's Skeleton Man (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels) 2004. I am now up to date on my Hillerman reading. (I wro...

Here's the reference to the things Carie Stulting, Pocahontas County fiber artist, knitted for her family. I had thought it was in The E...

Earlier this week, I read The Nanny Diaries: A Novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. I was at the Hillsboro Library, looking for a re...

Peviously, I threatened to begin a history of fiber arts in Pocahontas County. I have been collecting snippets of information. Pearl S. Bu...

I've been using the Linux flavor of the GIMP to prepare photographs for my Web pages and this web log. I don't really know how t...

I got a new knitting book--the first one in a year. (I've been showing great restraint, always reminding myself that I don't play w...

When I was putting together the list of Web pages for Tony Hillerman a while back, I also found a few for another favorite genre author, J...

When I started this web log, I resolved to post every other day, to not natter on endlessly and self-referentially about the blogging proces...

Labor Day was a good day for caterpillars. I found a couple of these sphingids ignoring the tomatoes and potatoes and chowing down on a sol...

You might expect from the title that this post will be about Linux, but it is actually just another finished hat picture. Knit of an intere...

On Labor Day, I rested from my canning labors long enough to check the garden for more tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash. What I found there ...

It's been a few weeks since I read a book, but the last one I read was Tony Hillerman's The Sinister Pig. I have been a fan since ...

I've been enjoying the This Week In Tech podcasts since they began in the spring. Living on top of Droop Mountain, I don't have ma...

I've been on an Internet fact-finding mission, looking for anything that could make computer use easier for people with limited mobility...

In hat-knitting mode, I've been using up a small stash of Chelsea Silk (65% silk, 35% wool) in a sort of natural heathery brown-blue-r...