We are Brent Sigmon and Nancy Carow, married for a quarter century and counting, living in East Tennessee. Blackoak Ridge is the local geographic feature on which our house sits, so “The View from Blackoak Ridge” is, in part, a visual look at our physical surroundings. But it is also an intellectual, spiritual, emotional view from where we are at this stage of our lives.

Nancy’s the artist: designer, painter, photographer, musician. She’s the passionate one. Brent’s the writer and former engineer-economist-program director, twice-retired. (He thinks this one will stick.) We share interests in gardening, home improvements, making things work better. Neither of us can resist picking up yet another provocative rock or seashell.

This site started as a mutual challenge to each other to get more serious about our creative endeavors. In that it has been a moderate success. We have also acquired a few faithful followers, for whom we are very grateful.

We welcome feedback, through published Comments or via email (nancy@sigmon-carow.com or brent@sigmon-carow.com).

ABOUT SUBSCRIBING

If you would like to subscribe to Brent’s blog, the SUBSCRIBE widget in the right hand sidebar is the place to start. After you enter your email address and press the SUBSCRIBE button, you should get an email from WordPress asking that you confirm that you really want to subscribe. This is for your protection. If you don’t see the email, check the usual places: Junk folder, Trash folder, way down in your crowded Inbox. Failing that, go to subscribe.wordpress.com and set up your subscription to http://sigmon-carow.com/. Still stumped? Contact brent@sigmon-carow.com. (Note: Don’t bother trying the SUBSCRIBE widget a second time. WordPress sends only one confirmation request to each email address.)