Sketches From Sky Ridge

Formerly Fairwinds Mountain Cottages

In case you’re puttering about the ol’ www looking for Fairwinds Mountain Cottages – you found it…well almost. That’s what the property now known as The Retreat at Sky Ridge was called for over 25 years. In case you’ve forgotten, the logo featured a big white Goose, a wreath, flowers,  and pink and blue ribbons. [...]

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duck, Duck, DUCKS!

It’s not as if we needed any more critters…we certainly had plenty to take care of without adding a winged division BUT,  that said, I have this thing for Muscovy Ducks. They’re the ones who don’t quack (they coo, like doves..and hiss), can grasp perches (they don’t have permanently flat duck feet – they even [...]

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Stained Glass Day

The sky looks bruised, and it exhales like an old leaky basement in January, musty, frigid, damp. Black, grey, blue with hints of purple and azure underneath, the somber October sky is set upon a carnival stage of reds, yellows, oranges. Sun breaks thru scattered, as if shot thru a prism – will the sky [...]

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