Comments on: Wild apples https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/wild-apples/ Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003. Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:20:53 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave Bonta https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/wild-apples/#comment-121565 Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:20:53 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/02/wild-apples/#comment-121565 In reply to Pfeil.

Hi Jay, good to hear from you! I’m glad this old post is still showing up in search results, and if people find you this way, I hope they search out your work. Hurricane Helene was heartbreaking merely to follow from afar. Good to hear the area is beginning to bounce back.

]]> By: Pfeil https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/wild-apples/#comment-121441 Sun, 07 Dec 2025 15:00:56 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/02/wild-apples/#comment-121441 In reply to Dave.

Hi Dave, Thank you ! I’ve been staying close to home these past few years but still doing artwork. I’ll be demonstrating how to do etchings and engravings at the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway on December 26th-30th 2025.
Why the ‘Wild Apples’ is a reverse image of the actual tree is because I drew the image directly on the metal plates ( 3 plates that are inked in different colors) so the printed image is the reverse of the plates.
I hope all is well with you and yours!
Jay

]]> By: Jay Pfeil https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/wild-apples/#comment-121440 Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:49:15 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/02/wild-apples/#comment-121440 In reply to pat Clopper.

Thanks for supporting my work! I will be demonstrating how I create my art at the Folk Art Center ( Southern Highlands Craft Guild gallery Allenstand on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Ashevile, NC) on December 26th-30th 2025. There is still a lot of closed trails and roads because of the devastating damage of hurricane Helene, places I couldn’t get to where I crarted a lot of by art are slowly opening up. We had a beautiful colorful autumn.

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/wild-apples/#comment-6528 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:08:44 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/02/wild-apples/#comment-6528 In reply to pat Clopper.

Nice to hear from an owner of one of Jay’s more recent works. Thanks for stopping by.

]]> By: pat Clopper https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/wild-apples/#comment-6527 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:50:43 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/02/wild-apples/#comment-6527 I bought number 29 of Flowing Maple at the Southern Highland Craft Guild in 2002…….it is a calming
influence in my house. I am glad I decided to look
for Ms. Pfeil on Google……

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/wild-apples/#comment-6526 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:43:13 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/02/wild-apples/#comment-6526 Jay! How wonderful to hear from you again! I’m glad you’re still living the good – creative – life, though I’m awfully sorry to hear about the divorce. (My main association for Black Mountain, I’m afraid, is the old Bessie Smith song, Black Mountain Blues. The protagonist of that song had a somewhat less peaceful reaction to her man’s departure, though.) I remember your mother well – her portraits of us kids still hang in my parents’ stairway – and I’m tickled to hear that she’s still alive. She and my mother exchanged Christmas cards for many years. It also sounds as if your kids inherited your values. The Southern Environmental Law Center is an outstanding conservation organization, one of the few really uncompromising groups in the East, I think. The bee lover’s garden sounds like a worthwhile effort too.

If you ever come north, be sure to stop by. I’m sure we’d all enjoy catching up with you. (My brother Steve has settled nearby, too – he lives in Tryone and teaches at Penn State Altoona.) Take care.

]]> By: Jay Pfeil https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/wild-apples/#comment-6525 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:31:45 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/02/wild-apples/#comment-6525 Hi Dave,
Thank you for your beautiful thoughts and memories of our
time together with you, your parents,your brothers,and all
the diversity of wildlife on Plummer’s richly forested ridge. I have many good memories of my time there, and I
enjoy showing friends your mom’s book with the map of Plummer’s Hollow in it.I remember that even back then,you
and your brothers were writing a monthly newsletter complete with original artwork.
I’m now living in Black Mtn.,NC. with 2 cats, 1 dog and my son Gabe who is temporarily between places. Besides doing etchings,I’m part of ‘A Bee Lover’s Garden’ an LLC that will soon have a website. We’re hoping to give part of our profits to Bee research. I’m also having a one person show of etchings and paintings opening March 1st at Community Church in Chapel Hill,NC. with 35% of sales to benefit the ‘Southern Environmental Law Center’ where my son Jovian works doing their G.I.S.work.
Jovian was the one who showed me your article,and I was touched and delighted. My mom was too. She’s 88 years old
and lives in Flagstaff. AZ.next door to my sister on one
side and National Forest Land,(where she walks everyday)
on the other.I have paintings she did of the house you live in, and of the spring house across the driveway, hanging in my home.
Almost 2 years ago, after 31 years, Richard told me he
wanted to leave the marriage. This was a shock to me and
our sons and our friends, as I thought we had a good relationship. It’s made me take a close look at what I want the rest of my life to be like. I realize that I have work I love, Many wonderful friends, loving sons and family, good health, and lots of beautiful places hike.
‘Life is Good!’
Jay

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/wild-apples/#comment-6524 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:21:25 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/02/wild-apples/#comment-6524 Hi Jovian – Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment here. I’m glad you found it worthwhile. Please do pass the link on to your parents if you get a chance. I searched for their contact information when I posted it, but couldn’t turn anything up, and figured sooner or later, through the power of the Google, they would see it.

]]> By: Jovian Sackett https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/wild-apples/#comment-6523 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:57:48 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/02/wild-apples/#comment-6523 Hey Dave – I really enjoyed this story. I am the son of Richard and Jay. Thank you for the glimpse of my parents as young adults about the age I am now. Reading this was very special to me.

]]> By: Piedmont https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/wild-apples/#comment-6522 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:19:14 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/02/wild-apples/#comment-6522 It’s a lovely print and a great story to go with it.

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