#autumn #frenchbroadriver #Westernnorthcarolina #nature
Beautiful day walking along the French Broad River in Asheville, North Carolina
Googles: what happens when the water level on the #FrenchBroadRiver overruns by 30 feet?
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The area around #Asheville features some of the highest elevations (#MtMitchell) in the East and very low valleys too. The #FrenchBroadRiver flows through those valleys & produces major flooding when in spate. Add a non-moving #TropicalStorm into the mix and it really becomes problematic. #FunFact: Asheville is home to the #NOAA National Climatic DataCenter. It houses climate records going back to the Pioneers. That facility (old one) would have not survived this. @luckytran

Wanted to play "Photo Library Roulette" and just post whatever ended up under my mouse, but landed near June 27, 2008 and decided that would be more interesting.

We were visiting #Asheville years before we'd move here, and went for a #kayak paddle down a very low water level #FrenchBroadRiver.

As I recall I mostly was heaving myself over rocks much of the way.

Sixteen years ago today.

#Photo #Memories #PoorPic

#TruthInAdvertising, #Asheville style.

The website for this glamping site, and the brand-new reality. Airstreams along the #FrenchBroadRiver

#Yikes #JustSayNo

Yesterday's adventure at #HighFive coffee on the #FrenchBroadRiver in #Woodfin #NC. Enough hashtags?

Anyway, it was a bright day, cooler than it looked with plenty of wind. We strolled up the river from the park, grabbed a table, chairs and a couple of chais to go with the (very, very bad) extremely large ginger-molasses cookie from #WellBredin #weaverville

That was a big cookie.

#SundayIndulgence

Today's #picnic was again at #HighFive coffee on the #FrenchBroadRiver in #Asheville. It was mostly overcast, and only about 80F with a breeze. Absolutely lovely. #Chai was the beverage of choice.

The dream of my life
Is to lie down by a slow river
And stare at the light in the trees—
To learn something by being nothing
A little while
but the rich
Lens of attention.
— Mary Oliver, Entering the Kingdom

#river #frenchbroadriver #maryoliver #poetry

Beau boxer thought sitting by the river at 30 degrees was silly and pawed me til I took him home 😂

#boxer #boxers #boxerdog #frenchbroadriver #northcarolina