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Spring in Valle Crucis. That’s a Great Blue Heron on the Watauga River.
01:43 PM - Mar 23, 2024
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Nice cool and foggy morning —feeling like August 👏🥰 #falliscoming #TylerChilders
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The last week in July is typically the peak week of the summer heat here in the mountains. As August comes and longer nights, fog starts to happen more often and we can start the bean count for winter snow. It’s almost time to say goodbye to summer. #ncwx
10:13 AM - Jul 26, 2023
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11:01 PM - Jul 25, 2023
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After our trip to Bookmarks bookstore, we had a full circle ⭕️ moment. We returned to the school where @jenniferlagarde
first started teaching in 1999, Cook. We dropped off some books for their community library and had a wonderful conversation with the lead Secretary, Sharon Rawlinson. 👏🥰🆒
05:10 PM - Jul 19, 2023
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Never knew about this bookstore in Winston Salem called Bookmarks. Very cool 🆒. Behind Foothills brewery ❤️
03:21 PM - Jul 18, 2023
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Under a blood red sky this morning in Valle Crucis. #smoke #ncwx
03:15 PM - Jul 18, 2023
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Watched this the past few days —Worth watching, but a little scary too 😳
03:13 PM - Jul 18, 2023
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It’s Christmas 🎄 in July in Ashe County this weekend. ~175 days until Christmas 🎅
06:29 PM - Jul 02, 2023
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Happy 4th of July weekend and hello from the best dog at the barbecue today, Sweet Pea! ❤️
10:57 PM - Jul 01, 2023
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This poor little cow was lost for a couple days (stuck in mud) but hopefully it’s on its way back to health and reunited with his Mother. 🥰 #motherday2023
08:59 PM - May 14, 2023
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I decided the good weather means it’s a good day to paint 👏🎨
03:18 PM - May 10, 2023
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View from West End Cafe in North Carolina where an emboldened legislature with a new supermajority is ramming through extreme legislation. It all happened when a democrat Tricia Cotham (six months ago who ran as a democrat on upholding Roe vs Wade) switched to Republican 😳😱 #northcarolina
05:42 PM - May 04, 2023
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I’m in beautiful Winston Salem, NC for a few days enjoying the spring weather and flowers and my dogs Lizzie and Leroy are with me as always. 🥰. They aren’t spoiled 🙄🤣
12:14 PM - Apr 27, 2023
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Tilling our garden today. Wait for it 😳🚜
12:07 PM - Apr 25, 2023
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Meet Barley
08:43 PM - Apr 23, 2023
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Beautiful yet chilly April 23rd here in Valle Crucis, NC. Got down to 34F at 7:00 AM but no frost thankfully 👏🥶 #ncwx
08:01 AM - Apr 23, 2023
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Spring flowers I took around the house this week and happy Earth Day from Lizzie ! #EarthDay
07:35 AM - Apr 22, 2023
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Happy Easter to all who celebrate. I grew up Catholic and it wasn’t a big holiday in my family for whatever reason. We didn’t have a lot of money for new outfits or lavish Easter baskets. I enjoy seeing all the spring flowering plants tho 🌸🌷
10:15 PM - Apr 08, 2023
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What a day !
10:25 PM - Apr 07, 2023
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North Carolina might be fighting this battle soon as the general assembly now has a super majority of republicans who can override any veto the Democratic Governor signs. It happened when a Democrat, Tricia Cotham switched parties to republican just months after she was elected. Call her office!
04:34 PM - Apr 05, 2023
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And this just reinforces that CBS shouldn’t have given her a platform or if they did the pushback should have been significant and Leslie should have had “the receipts” not just eye rolls for her MTG propaganda !
10:12 PM - Apr 03, 2023
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Winston Salem, NC spring is beautiful 😍
10:11 PM - Apr 03, 2023
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Had the wonderful opportunity today
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Jeff Zentner

Rajani LaRocca, Writer

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03:33 PM - Apr 01, 2023
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A pleasant tho a little damp Friday in Valle Crucis ❤️. Hope everyone has a great weekend. 👏
09:00 PM - Mar 31, 2023
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My friend, Dana Bango from Zionville, NC worked hard to help get Medicaid Expansion across the finish line in North Carolina. She was at the signing with Governor Cooper today 👏❤️ #MedicaidExpansion #ncmedicaidexpansion #northcarolina
10:00 PM - Mar 27, 2023
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Sad picture of life in the United States of America 🤦‍♂️😞.
These mass shootings in schools are particularly triggering to me as a former teacher. Each time they happen, I imagine what it would be like to be in a classroom of a school where this is happening 😳
08:51 PM - Mar 27, 2023
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On a brighter note from today’s awful news, I put out this solar powered LED hummingbird feeder today.
08:33 PM - Mar 27, 2023
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First grass cutting of 2023. It was a beautiful Sunday ❤️
09:23 PM - Mar 26, 2023
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My bridal wreath bush which had started to bloom before temperatures in the teens last weekend has made it out from the other side and appears to be flourishing! Nature is amazing 🤩 I always think of Ala Sue Moretz, a wonderful librarian who gave me the sprout for the bush a few years ago 👏❤️
01:41 PM - Mar 26, 2023
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