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January 01, 2025  •  Leave a Comment

New Year's Day 2025

This morning I woke up and deactivated my social media accounts. Places that I have actively participated in for almost two decades have lately felt less connected to family and friends and more like voyeurism from both sides of the "mirror" that is electronic communications now. It seemed like the right time to take a step back from many things I have been feeding in the name of legacy that don't seem to fit anymore and instead tend to practices that bring me joy. I still need to create and share, even if I'm the only one who looks. So here we go, a return to my original 365 photo journal; welcome back Asheville CLicKs!

When we were new to Asheville I maintained a photo-a-day blog for 3 years and learned so much about my neighbors and community just from looking around to find something new. Since the storm, I feel that I once again have new eyes for Asheville as it puts itself back together and finds its way forward into the 21st century. There will be many new lessons to be learned in the next 10 years about climate resilience, infrastructure rebuilding, and navigating a new local economy that will have to be more diverse than just a tourist center.

But there's plenty of time for that in the upcoming year. Let's begin with something lovely and hopeful. 

A pair of orchids that I found thrown in the trash at the end of last year's holiday season. Their blooms had been spent and no one was interested in giving them the chance to recuperate and make new flowers. Rescuing orphaned and abandoned plants is a weird hobby of mine. I brought them home and let them rest and then restarted them this fall. The patience paid off with gorgeous new orchid flowers just in time to remember the anniversary of their tossing and to welcome in a new year.

Day 1: New Year New BloomOrchid plants rescued from the trash after the holiday last year bloom again with care and attention.


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