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Showing posts with label Dillsboro Pottery Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dillsboro Pottery Festival. Show all posts

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Chapter four, Dillsboro

Here are the last of all my Dillsboro photos....well, the ones in focus.

Nothing to do with pottery, but I love seeing old building's construction

 Only the half hour wait, nice barbecue was waiting for us inside. We were sorry that Jaret House restaurant was closed.

No, Boots Steakhouse didn't have anything inside at all, and all these folks had just arrived by train and were hungry!  About 35 had signed up for a meal in a reserved dining room - out of over 200 passengers! I felt so bad for the parents with hungry children and no place to eat!

 After lunch, back to see the rest of the pottery! Passed by this sweet old church.







 I was interested in the pricing of ornaments.  I think these were $8 each








The shadowbox display makes pottery into art!




I joined this sprawling woman in resting in this shady area after it had become hot and sunny for a while.
 Eventually the train left, with an engine leading the way under the bridge, and the caboose being next in line to follow back to Bryson City, with the other engine pushing from the other end. Almost all the coal trains coming through Black Mountain also have 2 engines at one end, and one at the other.  Going through the mountains means changes in elevation, not to mention steep curves.

Today's Quote:


The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of Earth.
Thomas Berry



Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Third chapter of Dillsboro show

I love raku pieces, and have been following this potter's work for a while.

An Asheville potter, Kyle Carpenter



The big green engine appeared on the tracks right behind the booths, with a man on guard in case anyone got in the way!


 Around noon the Great Smoky Mountain Express rolled in from Bryson City, about twelve passenger cars, a locomotive at each end, as well as a caboose at the end (between the cars and the last engine.  Tooting away and bringing lots of people, we decided to get in before them for lunch.



While waiting for our turn at lunch, we saw this lovely old home across the street.

Yes, there's one final chapter coming!

Today's Quote:
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
 

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Second Chapter of Dillsboro pottery



Ron Philbeck (another blogger) was busy too








I confess, I kept seeing these animals and loving them!
Today's Quote:



We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen.
Thomas Merton