Scenes from Western North Carolina

I met this gentleman, whose name is Jim, along with his daughter Dakota and his granddaughter (who is 7 and introduced me to her puppy). The horses were Frank and Jesse James, Frank being the one who was blind in the right eye. My son and I were out on the motorcycles, and met him on a mountain road. He offered us another kind of ride, which of course I took. He's a cool old character: blacksmith, farrier, and rebuilder of classic muscle cars. He took us over to his barn and showed us some of his collection.

Below the fold, some video from the fire scene the other night (taken after the fire was out).



5 comments:

Mike Guenther said...

Was that fire up by the power house? It looked like the big gravel pull off area across from the white water pull out area.

Grim said...

The winds were very high that day. That fire spread to many places, on both sides of the river.

Grim said...

But yes, that was one of the places.

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