News-Record.com

Big Four flags decorating front porches on Saturdays in the fall...Those occasional 68-degree days in January...Greensboro's modest skyline that suddenly fills your windshield driving up Martin Luther King Drive...She-crab soup at Ganache...Hagan-Stone Park in the winter...the Bog Garden in the spring...Center City Park fountains in the summer...Guilford College in the fall...N.C. A&T's marching band (you can keep the football team)...Stamey's sweet tea (you can keep the BBQ)...Sunset Hills aglow with giant Christmas ornaments...seven-minute commutes...Christmas at Burlington City Park...The Powerhouse of Deliverance Garden Cathedral Choir -- all 75 of them...Grimsley vs. Page...Billy vs. Skip...The 17th floor of the Wachovia Tower (unless you know of a better way to gaze down on all those church steeples poking through Greensboro's towering trees)...Black cherry ice cream -- but only if it's from Homeland Creamery in Julian...the guy who sells his art on Saturdays outside Alex's Cheescakes...Alex's cheescakes...Fireworks at FirstHorizon (or whatever they're calling it these days)...Kirkwood's Fourth of July parade...Wake Forest's quad hours after a big win...Friday nights at the Eden Drive-In...Saturday mornings at the downtown Farmer's Market...Sunday brunch at Revival Grill...Monday Night Football at Fisher's Grille...Tuesdays with Morrie...the 90-second walk from your parked car to PTI's front doors...Lobster Ravioli at Positano...The cage elevator at the Biltmore Hotel...Orson Scott Card's deliciously pretentious Rhino Times column...Any black-and-white movie at the Carolina Theater...The clock atop the Jefferson, er, Lincoln Financial Group building...My wife's meatloaf (sure she can make it anywhere, but she makes it here)...Lake Brandt (pre dought)...It ain't Charlotte.