The Chocolate Bear, Purveyors of Fine Chocolate, is conveniently located right in Downtown Waynesville on Main Street. The beautifully decorated store is not only pleasing to the eye - - the sights and smells of the chocolate once you are inside make your mouth water. Chocolate covered sunflower
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07/24/2009
The Swag, North Carolina’s premier Country Inn, minutes from Asheville, Waynesville and Maggie Valley, was noted as “One of the Best 100 Hotels in US by Conde Nast Traveler” (read the Press Release here) and, most recently, the National Geographic Traveler announced The Swag as one of only 129 on
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07/23/2009
Lake Junaluska always provides new and beautiful views and/or flowers each and every time I drive around the Lake, depending only upon the season. Yesterday afternoon it was warm and sunny, and the swimming area was quite busy. Hard to imagine getting into the water since the temperature on my
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07/21/2009
Maggie Valley has several subdivisions full of nice homes with great views, and I drove through one of them yesterday afternoon - - The Knolls off of Evanscove Road - - with my video in hand. The Knolls is a nice, quiet subdivision, with great views and very easy access, and there are quite a few
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07/20/2009
Impressive is the best way to describe the Banner Elk/Blowing Rock area of Western North Carolina. Wow. Progressive with a capital P. If I didn't have very special plans at The Swag on Wednesday, I would be heading to the horse show in Blowing Rock. A few days ago I wrote about the tour of The He
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07/19/2009
Weekday afternoons are a great time to go shopping at the WNC Farmers’ Market, especially if you don’t like crowds. The blackberries are just as big, apples are just as crisp, and the view of The Biltmore Estate is just as spectacular! Great produce, great prices, and best of all, shopping at the
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07/17/2009
The private mountain community of Sunset Falls at Bald Creek is very conveniently located a short distance from both Waynesville and Asheville, and offers beautiful mountain homesites with breathtaking, long-range mountain views. Altitudes at Sunset Falls of Bald Creek range from 3,200 to 4,300+
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07/15/2009
Taken last night at Waynesville's Gateway Club at a presentation put on by Sunset Falls. HORSEALICIOUS Breaking Horse News Breaking Asheville News
07/15/2009
My first, and probably last, 'feel good' post, but I couldn't resist sharing this video. ;-) Don't miss Bloodhound's post about Twitter. ;-) The School of Redfin Revisited. [Hoorah 1000watt blog!] MOONFRUIT! Hot, new free websites. 5 Useful Firefox Extensions You May Not Know About. For those, li
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07/15/2009
John Haynes, the Developer of The Headwaters at Banner Elk, took time out of his busy schedule to take Margie Casey and I on an afternoon tour of his exceptional development Saturday, which development, by the way, is very active (seriously), not only with new owners’ homes under construction, bu
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07/13/2009