Pocahontas County Fare

For some reason, late fall is the time of year I pull out my overflowing bags of fabric scraps and hunt for project ideas that will reduce...

For a while, my blog was one of Google's top hits for "inbred hillbillies West Virginia." I'd posted on James Dickey, Sh...

I've been knitting a top-down cardigan in fine and annoying yarn , and somewhere in the middle of the long, tedious circular-knit, stock...

I like to celebrate Halloween with Pocahontas County stories of the supernatural. I've posted my favorite ghost stories at Haunted Poca...

Last November, I participated in Nablopomo , National Blog Posting Month, and posted every day for a month, whether I had something sensib...

Some years, we go all winter without a Purple Finch at our bird feeder, but this year, a small group seems to have been waiting for the sun...

I took the Stapelia flower outside yesterday, partly looking for pollinators, and partly to air out the living room, as the flower was get...

It was only a few years ago that I really mastered the knitting technique known as "Kitchener stitch." Using yarn threaded through...

A friend gave me a small start of this succulent houseplant a few years ago. It wasn't until it bloomed two years ago that I realized i...

Last Saturday was probably the fall foliage peak for this part of Pocahontas County. All the calculations that tourism boosters use to pred...

October's deep blue skies and colorful leaves always make me think of this Carter family song. My parents, aunts and uncles, and most o...

This Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker had an unfortunate encounter with the living room window yesterday. She flew away after while. We occasionall...

I had a little camera excitement the other day. I took some fall foliage pictures, and it became painfully obvious that I had dust on my ca...

Lest you think my success at maple identification will make me arrogant, let me tell you about my recent attempt to identify the hawthorn ...

After reading Dave's Invasion of the Swamp Things, I began to lose my nerve. It's not that I was frightened to learn that red mapl...

When White Snakeroot goes to seed, it looks like so many other Asteraceae--long, etched achenes with fluffy ecru parachutes. I don't b...

While the maple leaves have stalled in their color change, my rose bush is growing again, coming up with different October reds.

The October issue of The Pocahontas Times' monthly tourism supplement is finally on the Web. It features an interesting article about H...

My French Tweed cardigan is at that interesting stage of top-down knitting. It's just about time to divide the sleeves from the body. ...

These red socks have been in the works a long time. I finally finished them Wednesday night. In case anyone is considering it, I don'...