The time is coming for Fall brilliance:  bright colors to absorb and savor and internalize within our bings.  It's nature's way of moving us from the soothing green of summer leaves to the browns and greys and less frequent greens of winter. 

 The Watauga home and land market has been a roller coast ride in 2020.  Due to the pandemic, buyer interest and sales dipped in March and April, began to pull out in May and June -- then doubled in sales starting in July and continuing through December.  Here's the full report:   Download PDF File Here

 It couldn't happen in 2020:  COVID meant no Todd Liberty Parade on July 4th.  All the more reason to look back on the joy that prevailed in 2019.  Myself, I often miss my Mama years.  These two darlings are having such a grand time together that I'm drawn into their joy each time I look at this picture.

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 The proposition that photographers shoot only perfect blossoms has its merits.  I rather like blossoms that show life experience, a small 'flaw.' A mirror to what we humans experience.  We all get a little beat up in life at some point, don't we?