Honoring North Carolina. Showing you a little of what residents let me see today in my NC town
In my eclectic neighborhood in Winston-Salem there are old historic mansions restored, or not, but all of them are visions.
We also have normal houses (like mine) - some of them quite ordinary, others not. And interspersed are places you are glad not to live in.
The neighborhood association chose 8 houses and sold tickets for a tour. Carriage rides. Music and refreshments, and the glorious Southern Spring in full bloom.
My photos will give you but a small feel for what I saw walking by houses I usually drive by. Southern gracious hospitality was in force. I did not take but a few photos inside houses, though it was not forbidden.
On occasions as this, always carrying my camera as I have since “infancy”, I am always happy to know there is DU, and you my friends who will tolerate me getting excited and give me a spot to share it.
The first and last photographs do come from inside one house, where they live as small sculptures. If any of you have seen the movie: "La Cage aux Folles" - or the remake "The Birdcage"
that's the first unapologetic house I've seen along that vein and they did not re-decorate for the visiting hordes, which just make me extra proud.
North Carolina will bounce back from this intolerable calamity.
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throughout, from the mountains in West North Carolina, the mid-section and beyond.
For about 10-15 years, in the late 90's to ca 2012, I spent several weeks in the Durham area each year, always enjoying the amenities offered there.
I hope you do not take offence, but each time we drove through Winston-Salem the most prominent landmark was/is a tall, round tower, perhaps left from the tobacco days, which appeared to me as a Phallic symbol.
Have others remarked in a similar vein re that tower - or is it a smokestack?
beautiful area with beautiful people.
No, if NC could just revoke HB2 and oust both McGrory and its GOPer-controlled legislature, the whole state would be MUCH better off. 
I live in Charlotte part of the time and out in the country east of Monroe part of the time.
Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina! (Especially this time of year)
