I like to explore and tell descriptive stories about places. I also make jewelry, music and mixed-media art.
Late July, 2022 I’m back at the mountain family property at Fancy Gap, Virginia, clearing paths and finishing construction of the stone labyrinth. There have been storms; trees have fallen, and mushrooms are growing all around (including in the labyrinth). I’m learning to identify these mushrooms, so if you know these species, let me know […]
Read More Mushrooms and a rainy season in southern AppalachiaDates of travel: August 2019, June 2020, July 2022 JULY 2022, GREAT DISMAL SWAMP Yellow flies surround me as I walk through thick, humid air and sunlight, to a picnic table to write notes on the way to a gig in Elizabeth City. I’m near the North Carolina-Virginia line. Beside me is the yellow silt-tinged […]
Read More Great Dismal HospitalityMid April to Early May, 2018 As my sister and i travel ( she hikes, i support and hike some) north on the Appalachian Trail thru Georgia, toward North Carolina, the weather turns cold with two April winter storms passing through, bringing ice and then snow to the mountains. We freeze, some nights together and […]
Read More The Appalachian trail from N. Georgia into the Nantahalaoriginally posted April 2010 Jessica Powell and Brian Goforth want to bathe in a waterfall as a wedding ritual. Her dress will not just sit in the closet for years after their wedding, wearable but unworn; she will let the water and the rocks rip the dress into a mess of memories. And they will […]
Read More Go Forth into the Waterfall: Pisgah and Dupont Forests, North Carolina
arianna's creative travels 