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Joe-Pye Weed
All the way from my house in the mountains, all along the twisty US 276 up and down the mountain to Brevard, I saw lovely stalks of Joe-Pye Weed in their lavender-mauve bloom, thousands of them.

After the deluge
Hurricane Helene stormed through the mountains of North Carolina in late September while my husband and I were visiting my son and his family in Melbourne, Australia. We watched the events unfold an ocean and a continent away.