Saturday morning, the sky whispered my name in the wind atop the seething oak trees outside the window. I left early in my dad's truck, heading north on I-26, then exploring Road 25 over the state line into North Carolina, winding through the cascading foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Formerly the Black Mountain Folk Festival, Lake Eden Arts Festival (LEAF) hosts tents and VWs for three days each Memorial Day and again in October weekends, devoting a massive sports hall to Contra dancing, a tent that hosts SLAMs and workshops, a children's stage that has the best music of the festival in my opinion, and a main stage where the likes of David Grisman have played in the past, but mostly local folk bands who afford small concerts and open air festivals that litter the North Carolina mountains in the summer. The experience was inspiring.