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Today being a fairly nice day, not too hot, not raining yet, I went to my son's and resumed my chopping down of all the trees and plants he doesn't want. Made decent progress; more to do next week. One day a week is about all I can do. Chopping down and up is hard work!

Still going thru my vacation pics, with an eye to shutting down the laptop when I've posted them all. (Dang, I take a lot of pics)!

Here's our visit to the Indian town of Cherokee, N.C. ......





This is what the written Cherokee language looks like


My honey and his bear

3 ways to say the same thing


I have a bear almost exactly like this standing in our living room









There were bespoke bear sculptures all around the town..








This is the Pottery Bear




Note the pipe and the Cherokee turban; old way of dress


An Eastery Cherokee man. We have visited both the Western and the Eastern Cherokee reservations. The Eastern are much more into the world of today. But their language is still spoken; there is a billboard in Cherokee which says "Have you spoken Cherokee to a child today?" I'm glad that we (as conquerors) were not able to eliminate the language.