by Lui Umano | Jun 28, 2015 | June 2015
After spending four hours in one of James Roberts’ flue-cured tobacco barns, I was ill-prepared to encounter the rest of his wonderful farm in Madison County, North Carolina; but the tack room, just inside his main stock barn, was the epitome of expression of...
by Lui Umano | Jun 20, 2015 | June 2015
This Image is a reminder that often we go to a location for a particular reason and find ourselves irresistibly drawn to something entirely different and other. Goforth Creek, in the Ocoee River Gorge of Tennessee’s Cherokee National Forest, is so beautiful in...
by Lui Umano | Jun 12, 2015 | June 2015
The James Roberts Farm in Madison County, North Carolina comes as close in my mind, as I can recall, to an ideal example of a working mountain farmstead. Its collection of barns, sheds, cribs, and houses could easily qualify it for the National Register of Historic...
by Lui Umano | Jun 6, 2015 | June 2015
It seems like only yesterday – not two months ago – that the first days of spring were warming Sugarlands Valley at the base of The Bullhead. Yesterday the valley looked like full-on summer. On this day in early-April, however, the clouds were forming...
