Weekday Special!

Note: We have available dates right this minute, as we speak!

I really just wanted an excuse to use
Layla's picture on the cottage website!



For those of you who are on a budget but have a taste for fancy evening gloves and mink hats (like our girl Layla who really wanted to eat that mink hat), the Cottage on the New is the place to go!

If you book four consecutive weeknights, you get a fifth weeknight free!

The cottage is awesome, with the river running right through the front yard. Check out the photos below.

You're going to love the cottage!

Deborah

Last Minute Booking

We've had an exciting new year.

Before January, my husband had been driving from Hickory to Charlotte...for about 20 years! So when he got a new job 30 minutes deeper into Charlotte, we realized we would need to find apartment in that area, but keep our house in Hickory. Since then, we have also been traveling with my husband's new job, and going back and forth between the house and the apartment, visiting with our many children and grandkids. So as you can imagine, I haven't been able to keep up with listing the cottage as often as well as I did last year, or check my messages right away.

This is a favorite Blue Ridge Parkway view.
 I have painted it several times,
and on the day I took this picture, I noticed
a photography class field trip going on at the top of the "hill".

Lucky for you, this means I have more available dates than I had last summer. Don't worry. The cottage is adorable, in excellent condition and in an ideal river front location. As a matter of fact, I can say with confidence that it is one of the nicest vacation rentals around.

Another view of my favorite hill. This is the view I usually paint.

Now I am actively working on the cottage rentals again. You are always welcome to email me at cottageonthenew@yahoo.com or call and see if you can book for a last-minute stay, because we do have availability right now, and I'm always happy to assist when the cottage booking is open. If you call, please leave a message and state your number twice. I will always try to return a call if I can, to let you know to keep looking, but if I don't call right back, you can usually be assured that it is already booked. However, do email me as well, at cottageonthenew@yahoo.com, just in case.

This is the second bedroom; very peaceful!

The Boone area is a great area for photographers and artists.
Everywhere I look, there is something wonderful that I must preserve on camera.

Thanks so much for your interest in our cottage. Do keep us in mind for the next time you have time for a mountain getaway. Be sure to scroll down and see photos of some of the wonders we have to offer.

If you "friend" us here on the website, you will receive my occasional postings, and keep up on the news of "what's happening" at the cottage.

Thanks! Deber

It's Summer Time, and the Livin' Is Easy!

Oh, I know it's not quite summer, but it sure does feel like it, and there's nothing quite as lovely as summer in the Cottage on the New.

With the good old New River running right through the front yard, there's so much to do when the weather is warm! First of all, you can go wading and swimming, right in the front yard. There's inner tubing, kayaking, canoeing, water skiing...okay, I'm teasing. No water skiing. But fishing, bike riding, hiking along the ridge...


Inner tubes waiting out a shower.

I thought I'd put a few pictures to let you see what you're in for if you should decide to book a stay at the cottage. Send us an email soon (at cottageonthenew@yahoo.com), so you will be sure to get the date you want at the cottage. By the way, the best deal is to book a full week!

See you soon!

(Scroll down for lots of summer photos!)


View of our low water bridge from the front porch of the cottage.



This is Mo Bear, my son's dog, going for a little swim.
She can't resist a dip on a hot summer day.

The river gets pretty busy in the summer.
River Road is two miles long, and the cottage is half-way down the road.

My grandson's first fish,
caught about this time last year.

This is the view from the bridge,
taken one afternoon last October.

The wildlife is abundant along the river...
so is yard art.

Inside the cottage living room

You'll always be welcome at the cottage.
(The fact that there are no moose in North Carolina
did not stop me from buying this little plaque for the front door.)



There are lots of nice places around the area where you can
enjoy a good beer and a sandwich with friends and family.



The moon and stars are especially beautiful at the cottage,
because there are no city lights to compete with their glow.

This is the view looking across the river from the cottage's large,
covered front porch.

One afternoon as we prepared dinner on the grill,
we spotted these deer grazing in the pasture across the river from the cottage.
Very peaceful.



More of the New River's wild life...



My daughter and her boyfriend pet the neighbor's dog.

Another photo of the beautiful view of farmland
and mountains from the cottage porch.

Same view; early morning.

Pretty little kitchen. Well equipped, too.

This is the Master Bedroom.

They grow sugar cane on the farm across the road/river from the cottage.
Sometimes I get great photos.

Isn't she a beauty?
I saw this little sweety driving around the countryside
on the way to the cottage.
(Actually, I didn't see her driving...I was driving!
Everybody over three years old knows that donkeys can't drive!)
She was just standing in a pasture off of Big Hill Road which
is another way toward the cottage, off of HWY 194.

Moooo.

From the parkway, this might have been a winter photo.
The Blue Ridge Parkway isn't far from the cottage,
and offers gorgeous vistas of the mountains.

Tulip Season

Is that a warm breeze I'm feeling in my hair?

Buttercups from last May, near Boone.

Not yet, you say?

The breezes are definitely warmer than they were a month or two ago!
So, of course, I'm not worried. Though we have had a cool spring this year, we are talking about the Blue Ridge Mountains. And what people love about visiting there (besides the breath taking views and fun activities) is the climate - when it's hot, cold and cool.

This is a field near the cottage. I took this photo from the road. I love the rock outcroppings in the mountains.

As a matter of fact, things are starting to get downright bloomy in the mountains, as it should be this time of year. I was in the mountains just the other day, and the dogwoods and wild flowers are blooming, especially along the creeks and rivers. Apple trees are blooming. (One of my favorite things is seeing the hillsides full of apple trees in full bloom!) Wild Yellow Primrose, Buttercups and of course, Dandilions, are all blooming now. The Catawba trees are blooming, too. I don't have a photo, but they have large coned shaped clusters of purple blooms on the end of each branch.

This view is from the Parkway, heading north from Banner Elk, or south from West Jefferson.

People are starting to reserve their summer vacation dates right now. It's a good time to do so. Once it gets closer, especially to the holiday dates, it will get more and more difficult to find available cottages.

Be sure to look into our summer rates, which are on the upper righthand side of this page. I think you will find them quite reasonable for this area. Week long visits will get you the best value for your money.

Bob, bob, bobbing along...or rollin', rollin', rollin' down the river...View from the "big" bridge over the New River. You turn right after this bridge, and follow the river one mile down to the cottage's little low water bridge.

Hope to see you this summer! You don't want to miss it.

Deber

Happy New Year!

This is a Serious Message, today. An Info-Message:

I hope you all are having a wonderful end of year celebration. My husband, Bill, and I certainly are. We've been very busy with most of our eight kids coming home for Christmas and getting snowed in here at our house in Hickory.

We've also been setting up an apartment in Charlotte; my husband has a new job and we have finally decided to start all over and try out living in the city near his place of business. We'll still come home to our house in Hickory on the weekends, but the apartment will be our Charlotte weekday home. (For years and years, Bill has made the one hour drive home to Hickory because of the kids, who are now all grown up.) At last he will be able to hop in the car and drive a couple of miles home. It's going to be wonderful!

If you need to contact us, we will be in and out for the next week or two. Be sure to email at deberklein@yahoo.com. I am having a hard time getting all my phone messages, and my husband has a new phone number, which I don't have yet. So please be patient with us.

Thanks, and once again, Happy New Year!

Deber

New! Fantastic Off Season Rates!

My favorite trees, planted just down the street from the cottage.

Sweet, Crisp November! The leaves are almost done with their gorgeous Autumn dazzle, and there's been at least one good frost on the cabbage field already. It's too cold to swim. Well. The Polar Bear Club wouldn't think it was cold enough.



Late afternoon view as I crossed the bridge over the New River from our cottage on October 30th.

But its always beautiful in the mountains, and this is a fantastic time to visit. As a matter of fact, we coming up fast on Thanksgiving. Can't you smell the pumpkin pie already? Me, too.

Little cow,
little cow,
little cow won't you dance with me...

Just about every time I go up to see the cottage, I am tempted to take the long way home so I can indulge in a little bit of countryside photography. Usually I take the same scenes, just in different light, but sometimes I get lucky. The other day was one of those lucky days.

"Mooo." Maybe they were getting a kick out of taunting my worried little dogs... 

People usually think of cows as clumsy, awkward animals, but they are actually beautiful, graceful creatures. These dairy maidens not only crossed the whole pasture just to say hello, but when I drove away and turned around to get a photo of them from the side, they had already started heading towards me again, along the fence. The whole herd of them! For whatever reason, they seemed to find me attractive. Mayhaps the voloptuous milkers had it in their pretty little heads to do a bit of modeling and get their photo on the internet, hoping for fame like everybody else. (...unless they wanted to show those California cows what a North Carolina girl can do.)

There's still a good bit of color left in the area. This is right off the parkway.

I wanted to remind all our guest both past and future, that we have just reduced our seasonal rates. They are very reasonable. If you click on the Rates and  Payment Details page, you'll find our new fall/winter rates right there, plus all the other payment details.


Hope to see you soon!

Deborah