About Haywood County, NC

How lucky was this day? Day three working with the nice couple from South Georgia and the forecast was 70 percent chance of rain. Not only did we dodge serious raindrops throughout the day but we also got to see several rainbows in different parts of Haywood County. I sort of felt like a tornado chaser pulling off the highway to get photos. It was worth it…all my life I’ve seen rainbows and never stopped to get photos.

Have I mentioned lately how much I love this area and my work? Have a lucky day, but don’t forget to create it!

From US74, exit 99 in Waynesville, NC

Russ Avenue, exit 100 in Waynesville, NC...Leslie quipped

"Follow That Truck!"

View of Cataloochee Divide

View of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Funny how just one day of sunshine can perk a person up. We’ve had a solid week of grey days, rain and snow here in the mountains of Western North Carolina. I’d begun to despair (okay, that’s kind of melodramatic) of ever seeing colors before spring. Granted the colors I spotted were sort of brown or golden but at least they weren't grey and they were in the sunlight!

Yesterday I worked with a really fun family from Alabama and we were looking at homes with large acreage. The land is important to them and I’d scheduled the appointments so they’d have plenty of time to explore outside the house. A number of the houses have barns, creeks, pastures, etc and since they’d made the effort to travel here from Alabama in the winter, they deserved the time to really consider their options,

While they were exploring the property at one house, I spied these dried flowers on a bush. I have no idea what they are but the bloom reminds me of a dogwood. So, even though these flowers are in a dormant stage, it was a great reminder that things will be blooming and growing again in just a couple of short months.

The houses we looked at yesterday were in the Jonathon Valley region of Waynesville and today we’ll explore Waynesville, Canton, Cruso and Bethel and then move on to Jackson County and look at a house in Green’s Creek and Whittier.

Maybe I’ll spot some other flowers still clinging to their branches. I love my work.