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This new App from FlickinAmazing, Inc. is a handy guide to more than 50 Asheville-area waterfalls.

New App is Your Guide to Beautiful Waterfalls in and Around Asheville, N.C.

Asheville, N.C. based software developer FlickinAmazing Inc. recently launched a GPS enabled guidebook for iPhone and iPad called “The Waterfalls of Western North Carolina.” Check out our first impressions here!
Green Bank Telescope

Great Outdoors: My First 10K

Caroline runs her first 10K on the Green Bank Turkey Trot Inaugural Trail.
Chestnut Ridge Loop Trail

Great Outdoors: Chestnut Ridge Loop Trail

Our associate art director Caroline takes us on a tour of her newly discovered trail on Roanoke Mountain.
A moveable feast: Containers can be scooted around a deck to take advantage of shade or to maximize sun exposure, while avoiding the depredations of bunnies and voles.

The Great Container Gardening Experiment

A combination of relentless critter attacks and sustained weather extremes leads to . . . a $50 salad! And to other rewards as well, including plans for next growing season.
Once established, Japanese anemones produce bright and abundant blooms on branching flower stalks in September and October.

Anemones: A Look of Spring in the Fall

Who, especially in an area surrounded by woods, could resist a shade-loving fall-flowering plant that looks like spring?

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Behind Blue Ridge Country

Even More Sweet Virginia Breezes

Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

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