Glassy Mountain, Carl Sandburg Home, NC, 4/26/14

 We joined a Asheville Unitarian Church group on a hike to the historic Carl Sandburg home. Carl Sandburg moved to this home near Flat Rock, NC,  at age 62 and wrote several of his most well know works here, including his biography of Lincoln.

 Approach to the house up on the hill.

 Along the hiking path up to Glassy Mountain, mosses and more mosses....

This is Glassy Mountain, a large expanse of granite rock with great views, used as the local sunning beach.

 Don't see this in New Mexico: violets.

 Another flower we don't have in NM: a dwarf, crested, bearded iris.

Can't go hiking on the East Coast in the Spring without getting at least one picture of the dogwoods in bloom.

Carl Sandburg wrote, and his wife kept champion goats. She meticulously recorded how much milk the goats produced. The record: 2 gallons per day!  We were in luck visiting her Connemara Goat Dairy Farm: baby goats gallivanting in the meadows.

A great day combining history and hiking. 
Glassy Mountain: ~2 miles round trip, elevation ~500 feet.