The craftsmanship of the frame is just as important as the subject of the illustration. I ache with the desire to be illustrating work like this.

Wall Street Journal features @CraggieBrewing in Monday’s article, “Where the Action Is.”

Asheville, a Blue Ridge Mountain town of 75,000, has 10 breweries, with two on the way. That can’t compare with the 40 in Portland, Ore., but it stacks up to other beer havens like Milwaukee and Boulder, Colo., which both have fewer than a dozen. “Asheville is definitely on the map and well recognized in the craft-brewing industry,” says Paul Gatza, director of the Brewers Association in Boulder.

(via WSJ)

plainclothesman:

Less than 60 miles NW from Mineral, Va (where the earthquakes originated) is Virginia’s hotbed for hydraulic fracturing: a method of creating earthquakes to extract natural gas.

I’m sure that’s just a coincidence though…

http://www.dmme.virginia.gov/DGO/documents/HydraulicFracturing.shtml

Interesting observation. Thanks.

Dear @citizentimes, you’re welcome…

(August 3, 2011) (August 8, 2011) (August 22, 2011)

Does anyone actually use the cafe-style outdoor seating at a gas station?

Train crossing at sunset.

Lovely evening for a walk through downtown #avl

theeconomist:

Found in a kitchen frequented by our Daily Charts team. Those chaps really love their work.

Painter at work on an #avl mural.

It must have been the morning rain…

Curtain call for another Sunday.

Asheville sunset.

abstracthinker:

Fire of Andor

Original Artwork: Patricia Oblack

http://patriciaoblack.com

Foggy start to a Friday morning.

This is as close as I’m going to get to attending tonight’s Neko Case show.

Another #avl mural. Remember what was there before the new mural?

Rainy morning on the streets of #AVL

A delicate thing of beauty.

An #AVL mural on Lexington.

#avleat For a meal under $5 try Creperie Bouchon’s Soupe du jour … chipotle, chicken, vegetable & apple.

On the bus.

Use your library…

Books on book binding.

Just discovered some old Polaroid transfers I did back in the day before Instagram.