Sunday my friend Mark P. and I went out to the Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens, then over to visit a friend, Mark A. from DC who grew up in Belmont, NC. He was visiting his parents for the weekend. It was such a wonderful southern style Sunday: Sweet iced tea, cakes, nice warm breeze on the porch and lots of great conversation. Mark A.’s father was born in this same house…three generations of the same family have lived there! He came out with a two boxes full of Native American pottery shards he and his son’s dug up out of the rivers when Mark was a child! I am sooo amazed to see how these survived the centuries and still be under water! I LOVED that he shared these with me!!!!