Sketches From Sky Ridge

Wedding Daze

We did our first Retreat Wedding last night at sunset – on the top of the ridge. It was beautiful and the happy couple was delighted with everything – the cabin, the wedding and the sunset. It really was a gorgeous sunset – the sky was on fire (see above). Now that we have an [...]

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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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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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