Loose Leaf Notes

I got punked on Saturday by a Primland Resort photographer while attending Primland’s Golden Eagle Tree House ribbon cutting.   My definition of “punked” is when I go to cover an event and take photographs and end up being photographed by someone else covering the event.  This picture of me geocaching, a kind of treasure hunting in nature that involves a GPS device, was taken by my husband Joe and is not the photograph I’m referring to (which I was told could appear on the Primland website), but is one like it.  I’m pictured here with Virginia Tech’s Aaron Teets, who created Primland’s geocaching course.  We are reviewing a joke found in one of the hidden caches, which are filled with fun nature facts, puzzles and games:  ‘How can you tell when a deer is broke?  She doesn’t have a buck.’

I also posed for a picture on the back deck of the tree house with Primland co-owner/president Harold Primat and Joe. Harold and his seven siblings took over the stewardship of the eco-conscious resort after their father, Primland’s founder, passed away.  Harold is a race car driver from Switzerland and that is a chestnut oak that the porch deck is built around.  The porch is a literal perch with a bird’s eye view of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Dan River gorge.  It was windy up there!

I’m working on a story of the Primland tree house dedication and trail opening day for this week’s Floyd Press.  Meanwhile, HERE is the story I wrote last year about the opening of the Primland Spa. You can watch a video clip of the ribbon cutting HERE.