One gusty morning I arose early before sunrise and headed toward the inaccessibly parkway down Schulls Mill way and saw some lovely "Alpenglow" from the early morning sun on the surrounding hills. But it has been so overcast these ultra-cold early mornings that I've stayed inside and worked on a few projects. At the moment I'm up in Blowing Rock, NC having a trout dinner at one of my favorite little restaurants here: Roca Grill. This has been a family weekend up with Susan's sister and brother-in-law. Amazing really that they even made it since it was snowing in Atlanta, of all places, and schools were universally canceled because of the "black ice." Emory and Jeannie live in Cumming, GA on Lake Lanier. IMS (If memory serves) when I was a kid on drives to my native Savannah I'd see the billboard proclaiming Lake Lanier as the world's largest manmade lake, c/o The Army Corps of Engineers. But they enjoy, when at all possible, annual pilgrimages to our neck of the woods in the high country; after all, it's like a different country (even to us, and we can reach it from Greensboro in two hours flat).

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