Pine Lake: The Blog

The weather since the first of the year has been marvelous! Most days the highs have been above 50 Fahrenheit, and except for two nights in ...

The Ingles grocery store just down the street from Pine Lake offers lunch seven days a week and breakfast Monday through Saturday for ridic...

If you see a little red convertible with the top down around town, it might be Mike Tarnower-- but most likely it will be me. I love my M...

Because Pine Lake needs a new place to put collected yard debris, and because the city workforce now consists of one person (Matt Wells, be...

This is the first of a series of posts about inexpensive places to eat in and near the city. This little yellow house on Rockbridge Road ...

I just noticed these holes in the big Bradford pear in my yard. They're regularly spaced, about a quarter-inch apart, forming lines e...

I consider daffodils the first harbingers of spring-- and they're in full glory all up and down Pine Drive. So are assorted camellias...

I spent the last couple of days removing the fall's accumulation of leaves in my yard. Today, near the back of my lot, I spotted this l...

When I was walking last week I counted more than 50 Canada geese... ... and one duck (a Mallard)... ... in or on the banks of the la...

The lake level has been constant for some time now.  It seems a couple of feet low to me. I've been wondering if that's as h...

Christmas found me at my Sweetie's house in New York, with her parents visiting. Here's a way to have fun with two cats and a set...