Mother Earth in Asheville

Photos from my recent trip to Asheville, NC to see the Mother Earth News Fair, April 12-13, 2014. I really enjoy the articles in their magazine so I was glad to see that one of the fairs would be close to Atlanta. It was a beautiful drive up and back through the southern foothills and lower Smokey Mountains - lots of farmland also with beautiful flowering trees of spring.

Livestock

John C Campbell Folk School exhibit

People of the festival

Exibits

Bought a broom and walking stick from these lovely folks,
their business card is below,

Really liked this exhibit and the very nice man who explained chicken raising to me

These people were great to talk to also

Bought this cookbook and really like it!

Link to MOTHER EARTH NEWS

Link to JOHN C CAMPBELL FOLK SCHOOL

Spring!

Recipes for Erin

PALEO-CORRECT MEAT LOAF

2 lb extra-lean ground beef
2 red onions, finely chopped
4 garlic gloves
1/2 red pepper, chopped
1/2 c fresh cilantro, chopped
1/2 c fresh parsley,chopped
2 tsp cumin
1 tsp pepper
3 omega 3 enriched eggs, beaten
2 T olive oil

Mix all ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Spread mixture evenly in an 81/ x 11 inch baking dish. Bake at 400 degrees  for 45 minutes or until well cooked. Serves 8.

ALMOND CHICKEN SALAD

1 cup cooked, diced chicken breast meat
1 cup chopped romaine lettuce
1 cup shredded butter leaf lettuce
1/2 cup chopped red cabbage
1/2 cup sliced almonds
1/4 cup chopped Medjool dates
1-2 Tablespoons flaxseed oil
1-2 Tablespoons freshly squeezed orange juice

Combine all ingredients except liquids in a large service bowl. Toss with flaxseed oil and orange juice. Serves 2.

Fish Tacos with Quick Pickled Cabbage

2 cups red cabbage and 1 cup carrots shredded in food processor
3/4 white vinegar, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon kosher salt - for dressing
1 Lb fresh or frozen tilapia - or really any white fish
1/2 cup bottled lime vinaigrette dressing - marinade for fish
salt and pepper to taste
flour tortillas - 6-7 inch
avocado, very thinly sliced
fresh jalapeno - seeded and very thinly sliced
cilantro

prepare the cabbage and carrots. Bring vinegar to boil, add salt and sugar - mix with slaw and refrigerate an hour - Thaw fish and add vinaigrette - put back in refrigerator for about 30 minutes.

Coat broiler pan with cooking spray. In preheated broiler, broil for 6-8 minutes 4-5 inches from flame or until flakes easily with fork - salt and pepper the fish to taste. Break fish apart in large chunks.

Put fish on flour tortillas with slaw, avocado, jalapeno and cilantro.

About 420 calories per taco

Based on recipe in Publix Family Style magazine

Chattahoochee Bike Ride

Sunday bike ride after church. It was a beautiful day. The bike trail is along the Chattahoochee River in the Atlanta area. There were a lot of people out enjoying the day. I enjoyed watching a little one learn to rid without training wheels I took a few shots along the way. I hope you enjoy them.

Green moss
 and something white

Bike Trail Bridge

Fortress?

Bark shredding

Canadian Geese

Looking Up

The Pond

The Lesson of the Moth - Don Marquis

i was talking to a moth the other evening he was trying to break into an electric light bulb and fry himself on the wires why do you fellows pull this stunt i asked him because it is the conventional thing for moths or why if that had been an uncovered candle instead of an electric light bulb you would now be a small unsightly cinder have you no sense plenty of it he answered but at times we get tired of using it we get bored with the routine and crave beauty and excitement fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while so we wad all our life up into one little roll and then we shoot the roll that is what life is for it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty our attitude toward life is come easy go easy we are like human beings used to be before they became too civilized to enjoy themselves and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself

the tree - her

the tree has
nowhere to hide
stripped bare
against a winter's sky
...pausing
   ...waiting
       ...undone.

fingers extended reaching
every which way - perhaps stretching
to the sun

who holds her clothing.