Oriental, Sailing Capital of NC

Oriental, Sailing Capital of NC

Greetings from the Neuse River

Life here along the banks of the Neuse River, overlooking close to four miles of water, is a sharp contrast to living in a city. Most months, it is idyllic; then, there are the months that remind you that Mother Nature is definitely in charge.

This neighborhood of houses face the Neuse River and backs up to several acres of farmland -- most years, soybean --- then thick tracts of pine forests to the main road.

I love to watch the sea gulls, sometimes the pelicans, and cormorants or egrets and the occasional eagle or osprey. The cute visitors are "chickens" that my neighbor called me about photographing who were grazing in her yard. Even at 100 feet away, they were skittish and flew to the further neighbor's yard but just enough for me to photograph them for identification. These "chickens" turned out to be cattle egrets. The flock numbered about thirty -- by the river bank...not sure why they picked her yard.

I suppose you could say this blog is an occasional picture-book of life in Pamlico County or whatever comes to mind at the time.

Saturday, June 2, 2012

COLLARD FLOWERS

Most of us..think only of collards...only as those greens that most rural folks eat with...fatback...maybe.
Well...myself included...up until this Spring. We happen to like collards - so we fit right here -- in these rural surroundings. And so our garden had a few of these greens in early Spring. The plants grew enormous..with little help...Frederick, as they might say -- "take spells" at most things -- the garden being one of them. And these bright yellow flowers were downright pretty. I cut some and put them in a vase and they also lasted a long time. So --- even if you don't like collards -- you might think about growing it for the flowers -- and feed the leaves to a hungry rabbit or two.

You never know what you might learn on this blog. It's a pretty terrible blog really...in terms of regularity of postings and focusing on any kind of subject matter. But, you might learn something about living in a rural setting downeast...just maybe.