DRIVING THROUGH PITT, WILSON, & GREENE COUNTIES, NC (Mark)

We had the opportunity to drive through three counties just to see the countryside.

For our California readers, the counties here are smaller.  North Carolina has 100 counties covering 48,000 square miles.  California has 58 counties for 156,000 square miles.

Now that the classroom portion of the lecture is done, this was where my day started:  about 40 yards from our trailer.

It was a wonderful place to start the day.  I spent some time trying to convince a 1" long baby salamander to hold still for a photo without success.

I did get a picture of a fisherman floating by on the current:

It is possible we stopped at a certain ice cream establishment early on our trip, just saying.

A little further down the road this building was at the intersection of two country highways.  Someone has been taking care of this building and keeping the paint fresh:

Just a bit further down the road was a building that had slightly more tired paint:

This former house was slowly being returned to nature:

but this house is further along the process:

Then we came to this structure.  It took a minute to figure out this had been a one-room schoolhouse. I believe it was built high above the ground to withstand flooding; it was pretty near a creek.  Cheri tried hard to get some information about it, with no success.

If you are tilting your head looking at the picture above do not worry.  The horizon is level, the building and stairs are not.

One of the better photographers I have ever met, named Tommy, had a wonderful take on buildings like this:  “It definitely could use a coat of paint.”

Just behind the schoolhouse are the modern facilities.  A two-seat unit with excellent ventilation: