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Would You Believe that this was a Bicycle Event?

Cycling and food have always had a connection. Food is what cyclists devour after a long ride. Now in a unique arrangement,  a new reason to ride is to dine at a one-of-a-kind of bicycle event created by a one-of-a-kind cyclist and chef, Keith Gardiner.  Keith is an instructor / chef in the Culinary Arts Program at Guilford Technical Community College in Jamestown, NC.  "I have always wanted to do this - where cyclists sit down and ARE SERVED a prepared meal by some of North Carolina's…

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October 9, 2016
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This moment changed our lives forever

A long day of marshalling for the USA Cycling National Championships with nearly 1,000 individual riders competing in the championship time trials had come to an end.  We had escorted  the last two para-cyclists and they had crossed the finish line; NC DOT had removed all the lane cones and were in the process of dismantling all the barricades; our motorcycle colleagues had long since departed for the comfort of their hotels in Winston-Salem; the shadows were long…

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May 30, 2016
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Red Maple Helicopters

After a life time of being fascinated by these seed pods of our native red maples, I have never been sure whether I liked them or hated them.  The seeds always foiled the broom whisks which were never able to herd them 100%; or the leaf blower which added more chaos to any effort of spring tidiness. I have decided now that "I love 'em" as they have a unique ability (unknown to me until now) that…

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May 10, 2016
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The Organics: Heart and Hands Cheryl and Ray

This profile is a seminal component of a major work portfolio head lighting organic farmers whose hands are as expressive as their faces, and whose hearts have lead them to a proactive life of caring for the earth and others. "Growing up on the farm, I really never saw myself coming back and making a life here – I needed to get away and create my own story,” Cheryl Ferguson of Plum Granny Farm in Piedmont North…

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February 18, 2016
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The Organics: Heart and Hands Isaac Oliver

  We had a family garden when I was growing up in Alabama, and my dad gave me the responsibility of taking care of the beans. I really enjoyed that experience - a real sense of pride that has stayed with me. What impacted me the most was one day when I was working construction (on the west coast) and I looked into the field next to our building project, and the field crew were…

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January 18, 2016
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The Organics: Heart and Hands Jennifer Mantler

  Jennifer Mantler lives what this photo essay  project is all about ... Jennifer, like so many other college students that we have encountered, had periods of disillusionment during the college years of her life.  Unfulfilled expectations and conflicting messages generated by a choice of  study majors, in Jennifer's case - environmental science and political science - left Jennifer feeling that there had to be something more. Another common theme we have encountered as an ingredient for…

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October 2, 2015
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The Troybilt made me do it …

Cynthia Glasscoe enjoys telling the story of her dad's Troybilt tiller which changed her life. "It has been in my barn forever as a a gentle reminder of when he was alive and instilled in me his passion for gardening and farming." This image is the newest addition to the Organics: Heart and Hands series.

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October 1, 2015
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SlowExposures Juried Exhibition – personal, casual, congenial

The 13th edition of one of the South's favorite photo exhibitions this past weekend (September 17-20, 2015) was by all accounts one of the luckiest. With 900 images submitted from all across the country,  jurors Jerry Atnip and John A. Bennette  distilled the finalists to 75.   Photographers and the public were treated to a real fete - Southern style! My wife and I are life-long veterans of festivals - sports, crafts, and photography -…

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September 21, 2015
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The Organics: Heart and Hands Bob Alsup

This profile is a seminal component of a major work portfolio head lighting organic farmers whose hands are as expressive as their faces, and whose hearts have lead them to a proactive life of caring for the earth and others. From surgeon to farmer ... Since coming back to Winston-Salem to begin practice in 1979, Bob Alsup always had a garden. Even as a kid, he had a strawberry patch or vegetable plot.  On his very first day in…

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September 1, 2015