(Photograph copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
A thistle blooms in the meadow of our farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
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Red Hen
(Photograph copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
Red hen, Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
Butterflies to Come
We have a lot of Black Swallowtail butterflies around our home in Grays Chapel, North Carolina. They laid their eggs and now their young are in the caterpillar stage. Last year the young caterpillars fed on parsley. This year, they have chosen dill. Soon they will spin cocoons and begin their change into adult Swallowtails.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
1962 Ferrari 250GTO
(Photograph copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
The Ferrari 250GTO is arguably the most beautiful car body ever built. This particular one shown at Virginia International Raceway is probably also the most original in existence.
Box Turtle
My mother-in-law found this fellow on her carport Friday, so we brought him (or her) home and released it in our meadow. Box Turtles (or Terrapenes as we used to call them) were quite numerous when I was younger, but lately they have become endangered in our area, primarily through loss of habitat and road kills.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
Young Native Americans
Portraits of young Native Americans shot at powwows in Greensboro, North Carolina over the past few years. On Fridays, I often try to look back at things I have done before. Gives me a little perspective as to where I need to go.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
Magnolia in the Rain
(Photograph copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
A magnolia blooms on a rainy day in my yard in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
Wednesday Poetry
Today I want to share some of my son Devin’s poetry. He wrote this about Chram, a Montagnard who works at a neighbor’s organic farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
He proudly holds his hand-picked greens
Above the plants he sowed himself.
With eyes like stones he sees beyond
This fertile ground, these Southern Hills
Towards another wooded home.
So far from Vietnam, so far
From where he left his family
To find new work and guarantee
A steady life or something more
Than what they’d have as refugees.
While all his plants took seed and grew
To feed his new community
His arms grew thin, his legs looked frail,
He stumbled as he picked the weeds,
And finally he asked if he
Could hunt a couple squirrels for food.
He nearly starved to save his crops
For those who bought them from the farm.
So Steve and Lee, who hired him,
Packed up fresh cheese and meat, as well
As plenty of his vegetables,
And sent him home to rest and eat.
Was it his pride that kept him from
Enjoying his all his hard grown crops,
Or was it dignity and grace?
Or maybe it was something else,
That every crop he didn’t eat
He sold instead, a dollar more
Towards his wage, and closer still
To moving all his family
From far off camps to Southern hills.
He’d rather starve for weeks than spend
A day without his family.
(Poetry copyright 2010 by Devin Routh. Used with permission.)
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
2010 Tour de Lions
This past weekend was truly a two-wheeled one. On Saturday I covered the Grays Chapel Lions annual Tour de Lions bicycle ride. It was a beautiful day and over 400 riders took part to raise money for the visually impaired.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
1936 Harley Davidson Knucklehead
I stopped by the Antique Motorcycle Club of America, Southern National motorcycle rally and meet Friday morning in Denton, North Carolina. There were a bunch of really interesting old bikes to look at, but I was attracted to one in particular, a 1936 Knucklehead Harley Davidson. Perhaps because it was in almost original condition, or because it still runs great, or because it still has it’s original paint, I was drawn to it. What was really great though, was the original owner had named it “Flying Cloud”. That name alone made me wonder what great stories that old bike had in it,
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
