Return to Spring

It has been so nice to return to Highlands again at one of the most beautiful times of year - everything green upon green, a hundred shades of green.  And it is good to be running on familiar roads again, waving to people we know.  We are fortunate to have a place like this to which we can return.  We all know the squalor that much of the world lives in, even in this country - we passed areas of extreme poverty in eastern North Carolina - but this is a place of great wealth and it shows when you drive into Town.  And a hard-working local middle class can still do well in real estate, construction, inns and restaurants, retail stores.  We can understand its appeal, because when you are gone for awhile it seems as if Main Street is picture-perfect.  The biggest threat for a home break-in might be from a hungry bear, according to the newspaper.   

So I was marveling this morning from our back porch at the green, green world that is Highlands in early May.  A hundred shades.  All that I can see.