healing and cleaning up the down and dirty...

charcoal from local circle fire with stone, vegetation, Water & Earth cosmology

Swannanoa River

Kenilworth/Asheville  NC

where Ross Creek conjoins Swannanoah... Ross Creek flows South, forms historic Lake Kenilworth and continues South to here where the Sannanoah flows West toward the French Broad River...

"An urban neighborhood [Kenilworth] with some beautiful old houses and trees, it’s also blessed with a mountain and a lake—both of which now show the negative effects of urban growth.The trees are being decimated, and when it rains, the slopes of Beaucatcher Mountain run red.

Kenilworth Lake knows oil slicks, road runoff and a strange green sludge that appeared out of nowhere one fine summer day. According to a flier I received, the level of pollution is alarmingly high. The water contains something called blue-green algae, along with seven times the amount of human and animal waste that’s deemed safe.

Last summer I saw a young couple, the man bronzed and trim in swim trunks, the slender woman wearing a bikini. As I watched from my deck, they took a paddleboat into the middle of the lake and jumped into the water. Definitely not locals: Anyone familiar with the lake’s shore, particularly on a day without wind, wouldn’t put one toe in that water." https://mountainx.com/opinion/040908macleod/

Love, Peace & CoCreativity

Water is Life

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