Hello all,
My name is Ashby Gale; I am a freshmen attending Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, and I've created this blog as a part of a college seminar class, Contemporary Green Living. I grew up in Hilton Head Island, SC and moved up to the mountains of Asheville in August of 1996. My hobbies include coin collecting, cooking, botany, jazz saxophone, camping, hiking, fly fishing, biking, backpacking, and metal detecting, which will influence much of what I will discuss on this blog, occasionally tying it in with green living.
Yesterday I visited a beautiful part of the mountains here in WNC by hiking along a section of river on the Hebron trail. About 1/2 mile in, you'll come to a set of beautiful cascades, twisting throughout a sea of boulders. On our ascent up to the top, I spotted a harmless water snake, sunning himself amongst the rocks. What a beautiful creature that can be at peace on a square foot of land, overlooked by numerous hikers until a pair of observant eyes spots him among the detritus thrown about the rocks!
Then, today, I awoke to a drizzly cold morning, desperate to put a damper on my day.
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