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The Traveler. The Next Step

Hello Friends! Tonight’s Feature Image is titled “Peter’s Creek In Fall 110321” and is available for purchase by clicking the thumbnail and reaching out to me on the contact page.

Daniel sat across from the big mountaineer waiting for more details about his childhood sweetheart and her party. Which direction did they go? Did anyone state that they might have been in danger? If anything they may have said to Malachi could give him a clue as to what their destination may have been then it could take days off of his journey. But Malachi was tight lipped. For all he knew she was traveling to get away from him. After all, Daniel was an oddity in the mountains. Daniel knew that he had to take the initiative help Malachi feel at ease. Fortunately, Daniel was an excellent interviewer and had a few skills gained from his experience as journalist. Daniel told of how after the war he became a freelance journalist and had traveled the world on a steamer looking for interesting stories to sell to various newspapers. During these times he’d also discovered a few inventions that he’d built including a few modifications to his walking stick. He produced a few clippings from various publications as evidence that he was in fact a journalist. The girl’s parents had discovered that Daniel was quite good at his investigations and asked him to return home to help find Alexandra when she went missing. The locket he wore contained a sketch portrait of her that he’d done himself while in school. Once satisfied, Malachi lead him to the creek and advised him that the group had put a raft in the creek to make progress on the journey while resting the horses. He’d warned them against this because of the fall’s downstream but they’re captain insisted that he was the asset and Malachi was just big and dumb and couldn’t possibly know what was downstream.

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The Story Of The Traveler & The Mountain Man

Color Photography, Fiction Story

Hello Friends! Tonight’s Feature Image is titled “Small Changes 110221” and is available for purchase by clicking the thumbnail and reaching out to me on the contact page.

The two men stared at each other for a few minutes. The Mountain man was very tall. The traveler guessed him to well over six and a half feet tall hefty built. His untamed beard flowed across his chest and mixed with the furs his jacket was made of. The smell of gunpowder still hung in the air as the mountain man grabbed the dead bear by the scruff of its neck and threw it over one shoulder. “It’s bad manners too waste a kill and to clean it on the trail. ” The mountain man explained. He carried the bear out of sight of the trail and cleaned it with a stone knife. He explained that even though he owned several good steel knives that the stone actually held a better edge against the tough hide of the bear. He finished the work quickly and cleaned his hands in the cold water of a small drainage. He gave a sharp whistle and soon a little donkey emerged from bushes. The mountain man retrieved a bundle from the donkey and started packing the meat. “He’ll drag the packed meat on a travios but if you try to place the carcass on his back he’ll buck it off and we’ll not see him for days.” The traveler understood. Once while in Spain he’d seen the results of a strong headed visvount who insisted that his servants load a roe deer on the horse with him for a photo. The servants protested to no avail and as soon as the buck’s body touched the skin of the horse it reared in a most spectacular fashion and left at full gallop with the viscount hanging on for dear life and blaming his servants with unmentionable profanities.

The mountain man invited the traveler back to his camp t enjoy a hot meal and to get some real rest with just one more day on this part of the trail. The traveler agreed and before too long he found himself seated in front and the open fire of a small but very traditional looking Scottish Blackhouse. The mountain man had fashioned a large table from stone slabs in front of windbreak. A couple of large chunks of bear meat roasted over the fire and the fat dripped into a clay pot for rendering later. As served the traveler his meal of fire roasted meat with wild herbs the mountain man explained that this his remote camp and that his permanent homestead was a day’s journey away. His real name was Malachi and he’d actually actually been a physician during the war between the states after which he craved a simpler life and returned to the ways of settlers that came before him. The traveler too had been a soldier in the Civil War. Afterwards he’d spent a few years as a journalist in Europe and had come home to learn that his childhood love interest had disappeared in the mountains while heading west as part of the expansion. He produced a locket from inside his shirt with her portrait. Malachi remembered her. Her horse had thrown her and he treated her wounds and granted hospitality to her group as well. He stroked his beard a moment and looked the traveler in the eye. “You must be Daniel”. He said with a nod. “That I am sir.” The traveler replied with a smile….

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Forage Friday #129 Mountain Arnica

Color Photography, Forage Friday, wildlife

Hello Friends! Tonight’s Feature Image, “Mountain Arnica 91821”, was taken specifically for Forage Friday and is available for purchase by clicking the thumbnail and reaching out to me on the contact page.

Please remember that Forage Friday is presented as trivia and not to be mistaken for medical advice.
⚠️ WARNING, Arnica Montana contains the toxic component “helenalin” which can be poisonous if eaten in large quantities. Contact with the plant can cause dermatitis.

Tonight’s post is going to be fairly short as I don’t have any food uses for tonight’s plant. I had always thought that Arnica was a western species until it literally popped up at my doorstep. This happy little yellow plant is the same thing that’s in Arnica gel which is found on pharmacy shelves.

Arnica Montana is listed as being native to Europe and is one of the plants that’s known as wolve’s bane. ( The other one that I’m aware of is monkshood)

Mountain Arnica is traditionally used topically to treat bruises, arthritis, sprain and strained muscles and is considered anti-inflammatory in spite of also having a reputation for causing a rash. Some scientists say that Arnica helps by stimulating circulation to the treated area.

That’s it for tonight’s #foragefriday. As we enter the dormant period in my part of the Appalachian Mountains finding new subjects to photograph and post becomes increasingly challenging. My original goal was find at least 100 useful plants growing locally and provide something interesting to read about. It’s possible that I’ll have to skip Forage Friday until the Spring. There would be a post on Friday but it would be a different topic.

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A Touch Of Gold

Color Photography, Thoughts and Musing

The evening rain comes as cold mist that settles on darkening hills. Sometimes I think that if were blind that I could tell what season it is by the smell of the rain. A Spring rain smells fresh and sweet. A Summer rain smells sweet too but different. A Fall rain smells earthy with a hint of spice. The changing leaves are what gives the Fall rain that particular scent. The more they turn, the stronger the rain smells. The photo was taken several days ago when the colors just beginning to peak and now they’re well underway. Nature’s gift of gold and amber are the most prominent tones near my home. My own little golden treasure that get to enjoy for a few short weeks.

Believe it or not the was a time when a single leaf gave simple handwritten notes the same spending value as printed money. These came in the form of promisary notes. For example, a person with timber on their land might agree to supply a “x” number of firewood in exchange for a farmer’s grain. But in seasons where a large amount of either product may not be practical to transport or store notes would be made up in denominations with the exchange rate agreed upon. To prevent counterfeit notes a leaf would be used as a watermark. Each person would then take half of note with half of the leafprint. When it came time to collect what was promised the halves would be matched up and if the patterns lined up then each knew that it the original agreement. But the real utility of the system is that if the notes were given serial numbers and made in exchangeable amounts. Say, a bag of flour in exchange for a day’s worth of firewood then the timber man could deliver several days of firewood, receive a single bag of flour and a few notes. Then instead of hauling loads of firewood all over town he could barter the extra notes to other tradesmen for whatever product they had and the notes were then cashed in with the farmer. Of course a good negotiator would take payment in part product and part notes. So our timberman would have notes for more than grain. He’d be carrying notes from the farmer, the Butcher and perhaps a blacksmith along with a manageable load of firewood or other products that he’d traded for.

That’s a highly simplified example and I may have confused a few details about how it actually worked but the individual vein patterns on the leaves were what gave confidence in the system.

Today the value of the leaves are mostly aesthetic and the changing colors are my favorite part of Fall.

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Collected Blessings

Color Photography, wildlife

The crisp breeze sweeps the forest floor and the fallen leaves begin to dance. They’re collected in groups like the warm memories of summer’s pleasure. And though nature reclaims the shells of the canopy turning them into duff and humus the essence of memory remains as an intangible echo of those days. The quiet spots where the outside world can’t follow still hold the power of a peaceful moment as the smoke of a warm hearth delights the soul. Small voices carried in the wind sing joyfully and tell me that my friends the sparrows are back from summer vacation. The firey flash of brilliant red feathers plays in the thicket a little further up the mountain. It’s said that when you see the cardnial that angles are watching you. And my friend the chickadee has also returned to playfully return my calls in morning’s welcomed light. The changing seasons come each with their own blessings and it’s time to welcome them home.

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