Crows On The Ridge
From the minute I hatched the idea for The Week Of the Crow-I started trying to get photos of the crows…

From the minute I hatched the idea for The Week Of the Crow-I started trying to get photos of the crows…

The way Crows interact with each other fascinates me. They have a tight family unit-and within that unit each Crow…

A CRAZINESS OF CROWS Written by Jim Casada (Copyright 2011) When Tipper told me she planned a series of…

Today’s post begins my Week Of The Crow Series. The photo above was submitted by Mamabug-photographer extraordinaire. Mamabug takes fantastic…

Tipper 1973 Everyone who guessed yesterday’s what is it was a Chinquapin was right. When I was young, people always told…

Can you guess what I’m holding in the photo? I’ll give you 2 clues-its unbelievably poky and it’s not a…

Its time for this month’s Appalachian Grammar Lesson. Often I’ll think of word usage that is common here in Appalachia-and…

It’s time to announce the winners of the JCCFS Fall Festival Giveaway! I thank each of you who took the…

Did you ever have a spoon ring? They were quite popular in the 1960-70s and recently they’ve made a come…

Thistles are pretty, unless they stick you then not so much. In this book I learned thistles can be used to protect…

Today’s post is a special addition to my usual dialect posts-Appalachian Vocabulary Tests-and Appalachian Grammar Lessons. I’ve wanted to do…

Over the last week or so a real touch of fall has taken hold of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. We’ve…