This year’s annual Trail Crawl marked twenty years of fun and tradition – March 31, 2019
SUSAN’S GARDEN
Shelley and Eric enter Susan’s phlox paradise, a place where plants of all seasons, including the early-blooming Japanese quince, flourish in harmony.
OLIVIA’S HANDIWORK
You can tell from this splendid spread that Olivia is a formidable pastry chef. Camille’s plate features cheese bread, opera cake, pea and mint salad, a chocolate brownie, chocolate covered cream puff, and an egg and spinach pie.
WHO DOES THIS?
Who makes their own cream puffs and dino gummy snacks with real fruit juice? Olivia also made caramels in a variety of flavors. Seriously, over the top!
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE HOSTS
Trail Crawl happens because people open up their homes and put out a spread for their neighbors. People like Susan and Olivia, Megan, and Tami, who by the way, started the whole thing twenty years ago.
ON THE ROAD
Camille’s favorite part: walking.
BLUE TREE ACRES
Blue bottle trees and fragrant yellow daffodils mark the entrance to Megan’s place.
MEGAN’S SPREAD
Of course, we were all ravenous after our half mile walk. Camille got all caught up in the Cheetos, a guilty pleasure we never stock at home.
MEGAN’S POND
No better way to relax. Megan’s pond is home to a flock of geese which provide her with eggs.
HANGING OUT
Helen, Bob, Amie, and Derrick
Cedar and Kathie
THE LONG HAUL
Fortified and relaxed, the group heads off on the 1 1/2-mile trek to the third stop.
WATER CHALLENGE
Stinking Creek demands balance, resolve, and team work.
JAPAN
Lyle named this home Japan because it sits above the pond requiring retaining walls and garden terracing. The last stop is a good place to spread out and relax with yet another round of food and drink. Plates were filled. Beer and stories flowed. This is how you grow Community.