Inside the Maple Sugar Camps: Sweet Winter Harvest

Inside the Maple Sugar Camps: Sweet Winter Harvest

*This article was posted on March 21, 2014 by Beauty Along the Road* Just when you think that winter has frayed your last nerve and spring still seems a distant dream, Mother Nature is quietly working her magic. When the nights are still freezing but the days are...
Simplifying the Not-So-Simple Life

Simplifying the Not-So-Simple Life

Post Sponsored by: Editor’s Note: All photos are by local photographer Annette Naber, owner of Emerald Mountain Sanctuary and fellow Highland County blogger. To read more of Annette’s work, visit her blog, “Beauty Along the Road.”   When...
Highland County Holds Hidden Treasure

Highland County Holds Hidden Treasure

Two weeks ago, on a beautiful warm afternoon, Joe and I hopped in the car to go look for treasure. We arrived at the correct coordinates, but we couldn’t locate the small container that held the prize.  The clue we’d been given read “Not in or on the ground.”  That...
Meadowdale in Bloom: A Photographic Short Story

Meadowdale in Bloom: A Photographic Short Story

Post Sponsored By and Created in Partnership with:   Come walk with me on this journey through Spring’s awakening in Meadowdale… We all survive the winter. We eat. We work. We sleep. Knowing, one day, those clouds will break, and we will yet again be...
Why Forest Bathing and Wild Ember Sparking Might Help You

Why Forest Bathing and Wild Ember Sparking Might Help You

What is Forest Bathing? Many of us, who already live in Highland County, Virginia, and are able to walk through her peaceful woods anytime we please, likely don’t understand the concept of a local business marketing this as a service. I mean, why not? We all can...