If you’re into unique and interesting plants, here’s a rather unique and interesting exhibit to see while you’re in our neck of the woods — Wicked Plants — based on Amy Stewart’s best-selling book, Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Abraham Lincoln’s Mother and other Botanical Atrocities. The exhibit is showing at the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville through September 3.
| 2012 Sourwood Festival logo by George White |
The 35th annual Sourwood Festival in Black Mountain is just one month away. {Can you believe the year is going by this fast?!} The Sourwood Festival is a big-time small town mountain festival, with 200 vendors that you can browse, handmade arts and crafts, music, great food, activities for kids, and honey, honey, honey.
Asheville and western North Carolina are often on top ten lists (top ten cities for art, top ten places to retire, top ten cities for beer lovers, and the list of lists goes on, and on, and on…). Now, Asheville has been recognized as one of ten affordable summer driving destinations by weather.com. Specifically, they give a shout out to the Atlanta-to-Asheville road trip, which is just under four hours.
Happy weekend! Thinking about a trip to our neck of the woods but you’re still undecided? Maybe this video of our gorgeous North Carolina mountains will help. We hope you can come see all this beauty in person. Check our availability and make reservations at www.innonmillcreek.com.
With loan numbers 35, 36 and 37, we’re on our way to meeting our goal of helping to fund 45 loans by the end of the year to small business entrepreneurs in developing areas through Kiva, a microlending non-profit organization.
| Part of Roaring Fork Falls |
Now here’s a beautiful waterfall for you to see when you stay in our neck of the woods! On Memorial Day weekend, we took Csaba and Bugsy the innpugs on an afternoon of hiking to a very nice waterfall located just north of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Yancy County, off of scenic Highway 80.
| “Magnolias” by Ann Whisenant on display/for sale at the Inn on Mill Creek |
OK, we admit it, we are “loco” for all things local. As a huge supporter of the local arts community, we’re proud to not only sponsor arts events, but we have several artists displaying their work at the Inn on Mill Creek for the enjoyment of our guests.
If you’ll be in our neighborhood of western North Carolina on Thursday, May 17, be sure to check out Taste of Black Mountain! This food lovers’ event held each year at the White Horse Black Mountain venue (and sponsored by businesses such as yours truly) is all about the fabulous cuisine coming out of our local restaurants in the Black Mountain area. What better way to discover the positive emphasis our area of the North Carolina mountains has on “buy local” and farm-fresh fare than tasting delicious food and beverage samples from our local eateries, farms, chocolatiers and pubs? Yum!
| Linville Falls from the Chimney View Overlook |
