Category: Randolph County

Goat Lady Dairy

Animals, Goat, Randolph County

(image copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)

Temperatures are starting to rise locally, and hopefully this weekend we will catch our first glimpses of Spring. This time of year brings on revival and new life. The photograph above of young goat kids comes from Goat Lady Dairy in Grays Chapel, about 1/2 mile as the crow flies from my home. Goat Lady produces some of the best goat cheese I have ever tasted. My favorite is their Sandy Creek, an aged goat cheese with veins of grape vine ash running through it. To die for. The folks at the dairy provide their cheeses to many Greensboro area restaurants and they sell to the public at the farmer’s markets in Greensboro and on Sandy Ridge Road. They also host dinners and brunches featuring locally grown and sustainable foods. For more information, go to http://www.goatladydairy.com/

Greensboro Snow

Landscape, Randolph County, Snow


Yesterday we had a quite heavy snow in Greensboro, something fairly rare for us in March but not unheard of (it actually snowed here each of the first three Wednesdays of March in 1960). I’m not a really big fan of snow, and I am ready for spring to arrive, but I have to admit it was quite pretty. I went out and shot a few scenes near my home in Grays Chapel, south of Greensboro. Above is an old McCormick-Deering tractor beside a neighbor’s barn. Below is a view of our farm pond.


It was a wet snow, so the trees were covered. Below is a willow oak from my front yard. Below that is view of a neighbor’s cabin. It’s cold today and the weatherman says it’s supposed to drop to 12°F tonight (too cold!) but they are expecting it to be in the seventies by the weekend. Go figure.


(images copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)

Melancthon

Church, Randolph County


A local landmark in my community that I drive by almost daily is the old Melancthon Lutheran Church in Melancthon, south of Greensboro, in Randolph County. Largely unused now, it is one of the few rural Lutheran churches I know of in our area. Simple and white, it has stood the ravages of time since it’s organization in 1850.


(images copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)

Uncle Billie and Grave Hunting

Family, Randolph County


My wife Dedra is very interested in family genealogy, so in the winter when the leaves are off the trees, we often go looking for old family cemeteries and home places. Sunday we went to the New Hope area of Randolph County with her Uncle Billie Cranford and looked at several plots. We also went by the old Hurley store (below) close to Dedra’s grandmother’s home place in the Uwharrie Mountains.

(images copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)

Alvin’s Automotive

Portraits, Randolph County


(I am double posting today because I have to be on location shooting tomorrow.) Another local establishment I frequent is Alvin’s Automotive in Grays Chapel, south of Greensboro on Hwy 22. Master mechanic Alvin, who is my cousin’s husband, has somehow managed to keep my family’s and my neighbor’s cars and a lot of our farm equipment going for years. When he’s not fixing our stuff, he spends his time restoring classic cars and trucks and hauling fuel oil. He grows pretty good tomatoes too. In front of his shop is a store which acts a center for local news, politics and socializing.


Harry runs the front and keeps the locals under control.


Alvin always keeps a smile on his face … always.

(images copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)