Forest Stories Episode One Hundred Eighteen Two Days Of Snow Where Did Everyone Go

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Welcome to four stories.

A series of short-winded adventures within a collection of skyscraping trees stuck feet first in Georgia clay right here in Carolina.

It's been a huge part of my daily journey for over 33 years.

I am the poet in the forest, a children's series written and recorded in the 1990s.

It's grown into multiple podcasts that now reach around the world.

And none of it would be possible without this forest right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina.

At the base of heartbreak hills, it's a sign that reads rainbow forest.

Well, it's time you get to meet what's inspired several generations.

Long before the paved paths decorated with colorful homes colonized around this beautiful lake, slow-moving stream, flat land swamps and array of natural animals.

There were families and business owners who are said to have raised into this area for the beauty of the land, wild roses, migratory birds, and wild grapevines.

Those before me either forgot to write about it, or it's buried somewhere inside their family tree.

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Welcome back to the forest.

Is it or won't it be a snow day?

It wasn't supposed to happen, not until tomorrow.

But when you wake up early in the morning and as a fricking joke, you say, Alexa, what is today's forecast and that digital device from Amazon

comes back with no laugh in her voice as serious as Alexa is.

And she says, there's a 40% chance of rain mixed with snow until about 10 or 11 o'clock.

And then today you will have snow with an accumulation.

My eyes suddenly popped open.

It's like watching a scary movie and something instantly pops out that you didn't expect.

And I did not expect snow in the forecast 24 hours early.

And I said, Alexa, is it going to snow tomorrow?

And she comes back with that very calm, soothing voice, not a laugh in those tones at all.

There is a 45% chance of snow tomorrow with accumulations of one to two inches.

It's like, how do you go from having absolutely nothing in this forest except for some chilly weather to oh my God.

Now we've got two days of snow.

Now, I'm not complaining about snow because I originated in Wyoming as well as Montana.

Snow is and was always been a part of my life.

I just don't like the cold and I am no different because ask anybody who lives here in the South, especially around this forest, how you feeling about the snow.

People will say, I like snow, but then you go, then why are you staying indoors all the time if you like the snow.

And that's what's pretty sad about this forest is that it's so gorgeous when it's bathed in all white.

And then there's nobody to share it with.

So people, they just keep doing their people things inside their homes while this forest is saying, look at me, look at me, look at me.

And Alexa is going, well, today there is a chance of rain mixed with snow.

Oh my God, not a laugh in her vocal tones at all.

I would love to get Alexa to laugh just one time all in the name of honoring the beauty of this little itty bitty forest with heartbreak hill, a slow moving stream and a beautiful lake that has had so many different names because nobody knew what it was until I found somebody who lived him.

It is Ivy Lake, the snow, two days accumulations.

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