Cumberland Gal Cover Photo and Updates

Cumberland Gal Cover Photo and Updates

Current Cover photo is of the East Fork river this past Saturday.  Trip Report Posted! 

 Photo  above is of a beautiful hybrid trillium. It is a cross between Sweet White Trillium and a red Trillium giving a pastel pink striped trillium with a dark ovary. Near Max Patch, NC from Saturday. It was an incredible trip. So many flowers! 

Trip Report Posted HERE about the flowers and the Jay Clark Concert that night 

Recent News and Updates

    

       We are remodeling our kitchen    It has screwed up  my Spring wildflower season.  I will post before and after photos of the kitchen. We are about 2/3 done.  

 

  I put a Newly Added Directions Page on the front of my blog. On cell phones it will be one of the drop down menu selections. This is good for  quick attention and ease of use to newly added, helpful content without cluttering the page. 

  I am going to be having surgery in early June.   This is going to put a kink in my style.  I won't be able to swim for at least a month and even then only in the pool.   I will have to modify my usual fun activities until I'm fully healed.  I have come up with a good idea I should have thought of LONG ago. I'm going to add a blog series that I'll try to make a monthly thing.  

Favorite Dirt Roads & Back Roads.   

 Much as I love that very thing it is a shame it took surgery to sort me out on this! 

Content Plans for Cumberland Gal 

  

 Spring Wildflower Season 2026-- I am continuing my hybrid trillium research. 

 I have booked a wildflowers and waterfalls weekend in April.  Looking forward to it. I already have enough material for a hybrid trillium article this season and this hopefully will add to it. 

 

We're heading to Panama City Beach after school is out for the season as a BIG FAMILY!! 

  I am going to do a bridge hunting day and add an article with the link to the newly resurrected Bridgehunter Page. 

Hearing from Readers of My Blog

   I get emails or text messages from readers now and then. I always enjoy hearing from them.   I've made some good friends. I've gotten ideas that have greatly improved Cumberland Gal.  I am happy to help with directions to places. I answer all emails. 

You never know what we could come up with together!  I welcome suggestions, corrections, and do my best to be helpful.    Thanks to all who check out my blog writings.  I am delighted and hope it proves useful in planning and executing fun travels for you.  Here is a link to the Contact Me Page

Recent Contacts:  Staci Koutrouba and I emailed and spoke on the phone. She is the great granddaughter of Alonzo Akins who owned the little house at Barum Creek Falls in Mudhole.  She is a credit to her family and a new friend to me! What a delightful lady.  

Below is a video of  my granddog Rip cussin' out Happy the Cat.  This happened last night. Sat. April 25, 2026.  My granddogs and my cats are not friendly with one another.