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The Andon-Reid Blog
Category: Mother Nature
April showers bring the flowers but May rain knocks them down again (I just made that second bit up). Actually, it's no secret that we had an unusually wet May in the North Carolina mountains. For a while the weather was making me homesic… Read more
Film maker Peter Wier is probable best known for movies such as Dead Poets Society and the Truman Show. However, back in the 1970's in my native Australia I recall seeing an earlier, somewhat apocalyptic, Peter Wier film called The Last Wave.&n… Read more
We are starting to get some fabulous spring weather in Western North Carolina. Warm sunny days and cool starry evenings are interspersed with the occasional light shower, encouraging Mother Nature to wake up and do her thing. As a result … Read more
The weather has finally started to turn in the North Carolina mountains. Temperatures in the evenings are getting decidedly chilly. The leaves are gone, which makes the hills less colorful. However this does mean we now enjoy more o… Read more
By all measures this has been an unusual fall leaf-peeping season. The warm dry summer has affected the usually predictable progression of fall colors which normally starts in the high peaks and descends to the valleys. Instead this year … Read more
Back in June I wrote about our unexpected visitors, a pair of Carolina chickadees who had made their nest and were raising a brood of noisy chicks in what we thought was an ornamental bird box. We had named them Chuck and Chiquita a… Read more
After almost a year at the Andon-Reid Inn, Andrea and I are pretty well organized (well at least Andrea is) so we almost never have unexpected guests. However, some months ago we remember seeing a couple driving up to the Inn, taking their bags… Read more
This is Andrea's and my first spring at the Andon-Reid Inn, and what a lovely surprise. It is extraordinary how beautiful and energizing the change has been from the muted and soft tints of the Smoky Mountains winter to the exuberance and vibra… Read more
Our first weekend running the Andon-Reid Inn was the 4th of July. The Inn was absolutely full and we had to get to grips with the B&B business very quickly. Nevertheless, we had lovely guests and Andrea and I, aided by our wonderful team of Ashle… Read more