It's "Food Truck Friday Evening" at the local park in Mathews, NC...

The food trucks assemble around the local park on Memorial Day Weekend Friday, the people come to mill about, meeting friends and neighbors and order their food at the various mobile kitchens. Sweet.

North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC was the attraction for the day.

Rail buffs appreciated the appearance of the Norfolk & Western 611, a famous rebuild of a unique and rare steam locomotive, usually housed in Roanoke VA. The museum preserves many interesting buildings from the steam era, along with countless trains, autos and some aviation equipment. There are sometimes interesting photo ops at places like this.

Just as we have seen in the luscious photos in Southern Living Magazine

genuine Southern Charm seen in the pretty streets of Salisbury, NC. I like the top two homes the best; they seem older, more classic.

The Sweet Meadows Cafe in Salisbury, NC

The photo is of a piece of wall art in this lovely, friendly and clean restaurant on the main business street in Salisbury. Menu, enticing; food, delicious; service, good, attentive and friendly. With a bar, no less. Welcome, after a long hot morning at a museum in a nearby town.

What We Like about the South...

(Magnolia in Salisbury, NC) The coming days will feature selected photos was a ramble to Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina.

From a Sweet Old-Fashion "Cozy" Novel about the South....

like one of the "Mitford" Series?

you know, Father Tim goes to the village hardware store and chats, has a soft drink....

admires and blesses the infant of one of his flock....

cherishes the sunshine on the old brick wall ( no, that's me)

... is glad the store is still vibrant...

or could it be William Faulkner?? (no, it's Mitford)

Charlotte, NC...

 ... a city of many neighborhoods, full of parks for playing children....

lovely, picturesque homes surrounded by lust flowering greenery in spring....

 and a relatively new, sparkling glass "downtown" with lots of new condo and apartment homes nearby.