Weekend in Hayesville

 We worked hard on our weekend board retreat for the Southern Order of Storytellers, but we also had a lot of fun. Here are some pictures from the trip...

Our home for the weekend was Cill Dara... 

...the beautiful home of Anne Wheeler and Dick Berliner... 

...high on a ridge above the Hiwassee River.

Dick & Anne's ten-year-old golden doodle Bridget...

...was a very amiable companion...

 

I am thankful that my favorite traveling companion was willing to join
with the SOS board for the weekend.

Dick and Bridget walked down the ridge... 

...to the river with me.

Saturday was a very long day of planning work by these
six  members (and  advisor) of the SOS board of directors.

Late Saturday afternoon we celebrated our work with a meal
together at the Crown Retaurant in Brasstown, NC. (This picture  of Kanute and Kathy at the Crown is taken from the restuarant's website.)

After supper Kanute gave us a tour of the John C. Campbell Folk School where he serves on the board.

Gwen and I took the opportunity to "perform" on the stage there.

Then we drove by a new curiosity nearby -- a Bitcoin "Mine". It was a huge outdoor remotely operated computer facility with very noisy and controversial cooling fans.

This was the Sunday morning view out our bedroom window.

Dick And Anne had eggs and bacon and toast ready for us by the time we got upstairs a little before 8.

Soon we were on our way back across the state line to a marina on Lake Chatuge where Cap'n Kanute was ready with a pontoon boat for a tour of the lake -- back across the state line right up the the cove where Kanute and Kathy live.

We could not have ordered more beautiful June weather for our weekend.