The author and her husband moved to the Blue Ridge mountains in mid-life to begin a homestead. They faced challenges, surprises, twists and turns as well as the physical dangers over a 23 year period. In these pages, Cynthia vividly describes the panoramic landscapes, interactions with the local wildlife and the sheer will to persevere in the face of her husband's declining health as well as serious injury to herself. The homestead life tests their resolve at every turn, bringing up raw emotion and doubt, tests their fortitude, alternating sheer joy and debilitating pain. Did they stay? Read Roots, Rocks & Feathers and find out!