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4 December 09

I just found out

that’s there’s a fuck yeah north carolina website. This makes me happy because really: FUCK YEAH NORTH CAROLINA! If you didn’t know, I really, really, really love North Carolina. Here’s why:

I love that in two hours in one direction I can be at the beach and two hours in the opposite direction I can be in the mountains.
I love that everyone is so hopeful that maybe, just maybe, we can be lucky enough to get some snow in the winter. And when/if we do, no one goes to work. It’s just too dangerous.
I love that I live smack dab in the middle of a popular part of Raleigh, NC, where I could buy Chloe purses and fancy designer shoes a mile from my house, but if you’re in my backyard you feel like you’re in the country.
I love that the summers are so hot and humid. I need that heat. And I like having an excuse to do nothing but lay by the pool. Because, really, it’s too hot to do anything else.
But as much as I need the heat, I need to have seasons, and we do. The leaves change colors and fall. And it gets cold (and maybe a spot of snow) and then spring comes and everything blooms and then it gets really hot again.
And speaking of blooms, I love the North Carolina state flower, the dogwood. So pretty.
I love that there is a really awesome song written about Raleigh. And another awesome one about North Carolina.
I really love that tonight, I’ll be going ice skating on an OUTDOOR RINK. I have no idea how they plan to keep this thing frozen throughout winters known for random 70 degree days tucked between frigid 40 degree days, but we shall see and I shall enjoy.

So, really, I love North Carolina. It’s my home. And as much as I love to travel and learn about new places and see new things, there is no place like home. I think the only other place I could live would be Paris, but you best believe I’d be stocking up on Duke’s mayonnaise and making sure Southern Season delivers abroad before that ever happens.

What do you love most about your home town/state?

5 October 09

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Daily Lovely - Vintage Dogwood Necklace, $18

I love dogwoods and now you can wear this lovely spring reminder around your neck all year long.

23 July 09

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Headed down south to the land of the pines
And I’m thumbin’ my way into North Caroline
Starin’ up the road
Pray to God I see headlights

I made it down the coast in seventeen hours
Pickin’ me a bouquet of dogwood flowers
And I’m a hopin’ for Raleigh
I can see my baby tonight

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama rock me

Runnin’ from the cold up in New England
I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time stringband
My baby plays the guitar
I pick a banjo now

Oh, the North country winters keep a gettin’ me now
Lost my money playin’ poker so I had to up and leave
But I ain’t a turnin’ back
To livin’ that old life no more

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama rock me

Walkin’ to the south out of Roanoke
I caught a trucker out of Philly
Had a nice long toke
But he’s a headed west from the Cumberland Gap
To Johnson City, Tennessee

And I gotta get a move on before the sun
I hear my baby callin’ my name
And I know that she’s the only one
And if I die in Raleigh
At least I will die free

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama rock me

-Old Crow Medicine Show

(via lizatfolly)

12 April 09

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I refrained from posting today because I had planned on taking all sorts of pretty Easter pictures - my pastel outfit(s), the dogwoods and azaleas blooming in my parents front yard, all the candy that my little brother collected during his Easter egg hunt, etc. - and I would then share them with you all.

Alas, though I had my camera with me, I took nary a photo because I was having so much fun!

So, this image - the result of a google search - is what you get.

It’s funny though! And cute, right?

9 April 09

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Legend of the Dogwood

Perhaps this is why it’s always in bloom around Easter:

At the time of the crucifixion, the dogwood had reached the size of the mighty oak tree. So strong and firm was the wood that it was chosen as the timber for Jesus’ cross.

To be used for such a cruel purpose greatly distressed the dogwood. While nailed upon it, Jesus sensed this, and in his compassion said. “Because of your pity for my suffering, never again shall the dogwood tree grow large enough to be used for a cross. Henceforth, it shall be slender, bent, and twisted, and its blossoms shall be in the form of a cross–two long and two short petals.

“In the center of the outer edge of each petal will be the print of nails. In the center of the flower, stained with blood, will be a crown of thorns so that all who see it will remember.”

9 April 09

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Dogwood Cupcakes

9 April 09

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My favorite is white dogwood flowers, but they also come in red and pink.

9 April 09

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Daily Lovely - Dogwood Charm by Helen Ficalora

Dogwoods are the North Carolina state flower (even though they are actually a tree).

Dogwoods are also one of the reasons I love spring in NC. It seems like every street you go down this time of year has dogwoods in full bloom.

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