Asheville Impressions - Celebrating Asheville NC

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Such unexpected beauty causeth the mind to wander from the portentious events of mankind and doth lead it to ponder that power which impels the soul's return to the body and Eden.  
  An enticing array of color and whimsy at the entrance to a gift shop on Battery Park Avenue.
On a wooden bench at Walnut Street, you'll find a bronze basket filled with apples, a bonnet draped casually over its rim. This area was the marketplace of Asheville in the 1880s. On Walnut and Lexington, many old buildings still have the double doors which gave wagons access to produce markets and livery stables.
  A little girl claps her hands while a man and woman dance to the music of fiddle and banjo. At Asheville's Civic and Cultural Center, this is a tribute to Appalachian music.

In Pritchard park, a man watches a free concert while his parrot watches him and his dog watches the parrot. Something for everyone.

One of those rare carnivorous parrots with enough food for a week.

This could be Paris or Prague or Budapest or Belgrade or Lodz. Lodz of beautiful women.  
 
The entertainer.
A look down Walnut Street.  
Almost everyone is unaware of Asheville's great and difficult to locate inland sea, referred to by locals as "Asheville's great and difficult to locate inland sea." Its fleet of fishing boats sails forth daily to bring home inordinately large shrimp; ("Jumbo" and "Dating Size") and a bounty of breaded flounder.
  The tiled dome of the First Baptist church, designed by architect Douglas Ellington.
Concentration unbroken: Chess players during concert At Pritchard park.
Bridal veil falls, near Asheville.  
 
Looking Glass Rock from the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Three friends in a coffee shop at Broadway and College Street.