Reading and Roaming
TRAIN TO CHARLOTTE Earlier this week, we made a short trip to Charlotte to visit some very good friends who formerly lived in Florida. The train station in Cary is bright and modern and a most pleasant place to wait. Amtrak trains to New York and Florida absorbed most of the passengers while we awaited the arrival …
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SPRING HAS SPRUNG! I have now lived in North Carolina for 2 years, and I still marvel at the beauty of Carolina springs. I think, living in Florida for 10 years, I was spring-deprived. In any case, spring this year is again delicately beautiful, and then lushly so when the magnolias, wisteria, and soon the azaleas …
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ART IN BLOOM This is the second year we have gone to Art in Bloom at the art museum in Raleigh. I enjoyed this year’s paired arrangements (flowers with paintings or sculpture) as much or more than last year’s. A few I found too drab or just not interesting, but overall, there was a plethora of showy …
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ISLAND INTERLUDE Last week, we took the kind of vacation we hadn’t had in years. We returned to beautiful St. Lucia after 20 years away. Same lovely lush island, but a different resort this time. The air was warm, the breezes soft, the sun mostly out, and the occasional rain showers brief and almost magical. We spent the …
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