Southern Highlands Craft Guild - two

 

Here ceramic ends up looking a lot like stone.

Here clay is wound around in coils within another shape, then given some nice glazing.

Looking at the back you can see all the colors of yarn that were cut for these beautiful patterns

I did not touch Edwina Bringle's lovely wool blanket...but I knew it would be soft. Her sister, Cynthia Bringle is a potter, and they both live at Penland School of Crafts. 

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The National Park Service also has a store in the Folk Art Center building.

You know how I like maps, and this topographic one was fun to look at.

A closer look including Black Mountain, and if you look directly up (north) going past Montreat, there's a mountain that is just a white spot. The ranger  said many people had touched it, so they rubbed off the ink, saying it is Mt. Mitchell, the highest peek east of the Rockies.

Ranger told me the parkway was mostly closed since the hurricane. Just open in the Asheville area and around Boone NC. None of the connections to any overlooks. I hope sometime in the spring they might have cleared debris, as well as repaired any washouts of the roads.