Category Archives: USA

North Carolina, Other, Piedmont, USA

Barbecue Capital Cookoff Piedmont NC

In the Piedmont of NC, Barbecue is King. Lexington-style that is. The pork shoulder is cooked low and slow……low temperatures for a long period of time. Usually around 250 degrees F for 6 or more hours.

With such a great branding of a food product, its natural that the Piedmont towns would want to capitalize on it. One such town, City of Lexington, NC does so each year. It’s called the BBQ Capital Cookoff.

The below pictures are mostly from the music concert held Friday night, by a local band and the overwhelming attendance by visitors.  It was a great venue to bring the kids and relax over some good country music.

Botanical, North Carolina, Piedmont, USA

Butterflies and flowers

It’s late July here in the Piedmont of North Carolina which means that the summer flowers and butterflies are out in abundance.  Red, green, purple, yellow, fushia, white.  The deep rich colors of flowers pull you in while the butterflies lazily floating from one flower to the other keeps you there.

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Simply watching them can fill hours of time.  Pull up a stool.  Hoe the garden.  Weedeat around them.  Use any excuse to get outside and enjoy the beauty of nature in its summer prime.  Mindfulness at its best.