Day tripping

The fun of living in western North Carolina is that day trips are so available and varied.
This day takes my friend and myself to Saluda and Tyron, NC.

We enjoyed our favorite gallery in Saluda...Heartwood.

They have the best pottery that we saw that day.  As well as other crafts, all American made.

I discovered gorgeous glazes on Peter Karner's pottery.  So exquisite!

It's worth the trip just to spend an hour browsing there!  And then we had lunch a few doors down at the Purple Onion.  It was busy, but not too crowded.  This restaurant knows how to fix a delicious lunch.

Next stop, Tryon NC.  It is on the border with South Carolina, and also a town with a train track running through it.

It is larger (at least by the downtown area) than Saluda.  I was expecting horses, since I'd heard that as the way people talk about it.  Didn't see any live ones.

But this was the last week of December, so perhaps everyone was doing what we were, just going out to a place they'd like to explore.  These photos were posted on a hallway into a little bakery where we had coffee and pastries.

We looked for galleries, and found some were closed, and none that had pottery that would have been of my choosing.

I was more interested in the architecture of this gallery, a former pharmacy, with the tin ceiling restored.

And we did see this lovely horse right in the middle of town!

I'm including this in Sepia Saturday's listings this week, after all, there were lots of old photos on that wall, and the street scenes remind me of the prompt photo. I admit my clicking on an iPhone is nowhere near the amount of work this gentleman must have gone to to create his portraits (if that's what he is showing.)  FYI, when you click the Sepia Saturday link, go to the bottom where various person's names give links to their blogs to see many other interesting and diverse posts!



Today's quote:

“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”

- Jayson Gaignard, Entrepreneur