Craft Fair and Serious Trees

Carol and I did the Annual Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands this morning - serious high end craft, much of it big and heavy and expensive. Lots of pottery, woodwork, jewellery, fibre art - two large floors of it beautifully lit and presented and quite overwhelming in its volume. It was all for sale but credit cards required: the most attractive things were carved wooden rocking horses, one of them a wooden hare on top of a tortoise, very clever.

Meanwhile Jim and David had an early start to go out in Pisgah National Forest with the Chief Silviculturalist, a former student of Jim's. They had breakfast at Moose Cafe and raved about it but Carol and I were enjoying our elegant b&b breakfast.

We also enjoyed our lunch at a combined secondhand book store and champagne bar: sounds an odd combination but works very well. Downtown Asheville was buzzing with music groups, crafts and many shoppers and we had fun poking around the shops which are different from the usual touristic offerings. We came back to Biltmore Village near our b&b for more shops including Yarn Paradise just fabulous wool but I can't buy any more.