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Spring Mountain Festival

Spring Mountain Festival week has arrived. The usual signs of spring are popping up every day. We seen new shades of green daily as a each new tree shoots its leaves as a display that winter is over and spring is here. It was rumored that there were snowflakes sighted today, but I am confident that tonight is the last night I will have to bring the recently planted herbs in.

Friday evening is a Christian Youth Rally featuring contemporary/rock Christian bands "Covenant" and "Lost Keys". Flea Market Vendors will be open in the former Petersburg Auto Pavillion and Craft Vendors will be located in City Park near the main stage.

Saturday's festivities will begin with a parade through downtown Petersburg. Other Saturday activities include "Wild World of Animals", Country Music Star, Josh Oldaker, and Hometown native, former Miss West Virginia, and Nashville Recording Star, Julia Burton and her band.

Sunday's Gospel Music will begin at 1:00 with Josh Oldaker performing. He will be followed by several local community gospel groups.

We have one room available, Cave Mountain. If we are fortunate, we will be able to enjoy a private Saturday evening concert at the Inn as Josh Oldaker, who is staying with us at the Inn might be encouraged to "sing for his supper" as he did last year.

We saw our first hummingbird sentry today. I put fresh food in the feeder so they will hopefully send a good report and bring many to spend the summer at the North Fork Mountain Inn. We have seen several yellow and gold finches. They seem to be hungry as they eat the thistle seed as fast as we can put it out. Refilling the bird feeders has become a daily activity.

It is so refreshing to see the early spring flowers bloom. We are anticipating the azaleas and rhodendrums coming to life soon. Spring is one of my favorite times of the year. We are looking forward to receiving our first batch of ramps and morelle mushrooms, as we perfect our "golden trout" recipe that we are planning to represent West Virginia in the National Seafood Cookoff in New Orleans in July this year. So come and give us your feedback on our "WV Style, Golden Trout".

Check back to our blog as I will be posting the link for the WV DNR Stocking report. As you may know, the golden trout is grown locally, and it is "prime time" fishing season right now in Smoke Hole Canyon.

If you can't join us this weekend, check out our Upcoming Events link on our website www.northforkmtninn.com to see the exciting upcoming events scheduled. If you want to participate in one of these exciting weekends, we encourage you to choose your favorite room or check out our new log cabin suites.

Posted on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - Permanent Link - 0 comments

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