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Cicada

I’ve heard a lot of news reports about cicadas in North Carolina recently, but I haven’t seen or heard any of these 13 year “locusts” near my home. A trip to Denton on Sunday changed that. It was surreal as the woods around Denton Farm Park sounded alive with their drone. Thought for a moment I was in the Twilight Zone.

Plow Day in Black and White

Farm, Horses

Black and white from Caldwell County, North Carolina.

Red Caboose

History, Railroad

Still-life photograph of an old railroad caboose from a local train museum in North Carolina.

Location Scouting

Automobile, Mini Cooper

Out-take from a location scouting trip.

Plover

Bird, Garden

I walked out into the newly planted part of our garden and ran into a plover, a small wading-type bird. The poor thing was obviously hurt, for it flapped it’s damaged wing and called out in pain. All of this was a hoax of course, as the bird did everything in it’s power to lure me away from four small eggs camouflaged in the recently planted soil. I marked the spot and we’ll work around the nest till the eggs hatch and the young scurry away.

James Tristan Routh, JD

Family, Personal

Occasionally I get the opportunity to make a purely personal blog post. Yesterday my wife and I had the pleasure of watching our older son Tristan receive his law degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law. It’s been a long journey and we are both very proud.

Corn Ground

Agriculture

It’s that time of year when farmers and gardeners are getting things into the soil, and my neighbors are busy. Michael Williams works ground near my home in Grays Chapel, North Carolina. Michael and his family run a dairy farm nearby, and will plant corn on land where they have just cut small grains for silage. The corn too will be used for cattle feed.