A lot of cleanup continues and restoration begins in western NC. We have been blessed by neighbors and friends showing up to work on our great many fallen oak trees, all of which were taller than our house is long! But amidst all the challenges that Helene left in her wake, there are some Wowza moments. Case in point, the photo our neighbor snapped of this elk in our pasture. There are some 200 elk in North Carolina, but this gem was displaced by the storm and its flooding, as we are in the foothills. Elk tend to stay up in the mountains, particularly the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, west of Asheville. (We are southeast of Asheville.) So, Mill Spring in little Polk County got a Wowza moment!