Greetings from Mocksville

Quickie, I had a much better day than yesterday and not just because of the amazing women who persuaded Jeff Flake that women had a right to be heard and believed. We are in North Carolina after picking up Cheryl in Richmond and driving south through Durham, where we met my good college friend Karen for dinner at Thai Cafe, the same excellent restaurant where we had dinner in 2010 with my kids and her husband, who had to work tonight. On Saturday we're going to the Biltmore Estate for the Chihuly exhibit and just to see the mansion -- one of younger son's least favorite places in America! Here is an ice rainbow we saw over NC and us with Karen: