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Haw River Saunter
…whenever I felt emotionally overwhelmed, I would take a walk in the woods. Being in the stillness and grandeur of trees had always calmed me. ~Brenda Strong We hiked (I suppose sauntered is a better word, really) along a short section of the Haw River with some good friends on Saturday (practicing social distancing, of Read more…
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Haw-inspiring Hike
One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it. ― Alec Wilkinson I must give credit to our friend, Bill, for the title of this post (hope he doesn’t mind). He Read more…
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Into the Haw
The rivers flow not past but through us. ~John Muir The Haw River flows along the boundary of the community where we live. It is a beautiful, rocky, river that flows 110 miles from its headwaters in Forsyth County, through Jordan Lake, to its confluence with the Deep River, where they combine to form the Read more…
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Hiking the Haw
A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own, and is as full of good fellowship as a sugar maple is of sap. ~Henry Van Dyke Fall color is starting to peak here in the Piedmont of North Carolina so I Read more…
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